The Bible In Paintings: KING SAUL'S HARPIST, DAVID

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

1st SAMUEL
CHAPTER 16

Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him. Saul’s attendants said to him, “Let our lord command his servants here to search for someone who can play the harp. He will play when the evil spirit from God comes upon you, and you will feel better.”

So Saul said to his attendants, “Find someone who plays well and bring him to me.”

One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the LORD is with him.”

Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.”

David came to Saul and entered his service. Saul liked him very much, and David became one of his armor-bearers. Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Allow David to remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”

Whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would take his harp and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.

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REMBRANDT
"David Playing the Harp Before Saul"

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WILLIAM BRASSEY HOLE
"David Playing on the Harp Before Saul"

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AERT DE GELDER
"David Playing the Harp to Saul"

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ADRIAEN COLLAERT
"David Playing the Harp before Saul"

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GEORGE OWEN BONAWIT
"David Plays the Harp for Saul"

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EUGENE DELACROIX
"David Playing the Harp for Saul"

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GOTTLIEB SCHICK
"David Spielt vor Saul"

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FRANS FLORIS I
"David Playing the Harp before Saul"

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HARTWELL JAMES
"David Playing Harp for King Saul"

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NIKOLAI MIKHAILOVICH PLYUSNIN
"David Playing the Harp to Saul"

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ANTOINE-JEAN GROS
"David Charming Saul's Melancholy"

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COCHIN VAN LOO
"David Plays Harp for King Saul"

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ERASMUS QUELLINUS II
"Saul Listening to David Playing the Harp"

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LUCAS VAN LEYDEN
"David Playing the Harp before Saul"

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JULIUS KRONBERG
"Saul and David"

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FRANZ JOSEPH DOBYASCHOFSKY

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STEFANO BIANCHETTI
"David Playing the Harp for King Saul"

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JAMES TISSOT
"David Plays Harp before Saul"

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ERNST JOSEPHSON
"David and Saul"

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RICHARD McBEE
"David & Saul"

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RUTH COLLET
"David Plays the Harp to Saul"

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IVAN IVANOVICH TVOROZHNIKOV
"David Playing the Harp before Saul"

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BERNARDO CAVALLINO
"David Playing Harp to Saul"

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Franco-Flemish School
"David and Saul"

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"David Plays the Harp for Saul"

[delchiante]

I like the ones where it’s just Saul and David.
Audience of one

[Ezekiel]

The harp [kinnor] is the first musical instrument to appear in the Torah. (Gen 4:21)

Hebrew 11:6 to Red Badger:

I hate to harp on it, but how did you get out of the punitentiary?

Ha, it's all backwards, innit. Researchers look through the bars at the monkeys, never suspecting that the monkeys are free and the humans are the ones in the cage. There's got to be a Far Side panel for that.

So Saul said to his attendants, “Find someone who plays well and bring him to me.”

The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891-1958), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932. In 1934, his company came to be called "Lego", derived from the Danish phrase leg godt , which means "play well".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego

You will be proud to present this charming little harp because its assembly requires a minimum of dexterity.
27cm high, it will find easily its place on a shelf or furniture of the living room.
1meter of elastic thread is used to show the strings. It’s not a Lego part, but can be find easily in a haberdashery or hypermarket department:

Harpe decorative harp

by altester

258 parts =

"Nes Gadol Haya Po"
[נס גדול היה פה]

As for the selections in this thread, image 30 has a certain prophetic angle to it. It appears to me like a wary, disbelieving Saul is holding his spear in his lap, prepared and waiting for any "wrong" note as an excuse to slay sweet David and break his "defective" harp. That gal in the blue outfit knew the danger.

What If an Israeli National Symbol Is a Fake?

What if it isn't?

"Furthermore, Bayer argued, it was unlikely a woman of royalty in seventh-century B.C.E. Jerusalem would wish to publicly associate with a lyre. In those days, she said, a female musician would have been considered a prostitute."

The puns never end, because here's how the blind can see and get out of jail free, as they feel for the seat:

The Lego seat for that Lego harpe is called a "full cell" in Braille, representing the word "for", and:

1 Samuel 16.11. And Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? And he said, There remains still the youngest, and, behold, he keeps the sheep; And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he comes here[כִּי לֹא־נָסֹב עַד־בֹּאוֹ פֹֽה]:

"For" is ki [כִּי], pronounced as "key".

Timing: This Sunday, May 15th, is Iyar 14, the "second chance" Passover. The reading is the 1st in Parshat Behar.

It's the location of the inscription on the Liberty Bell. (Lev 25:10)

To buck the system *is* to have a strong sense of self-preservation.

Top Gun: Maverick is the much anticipated much delayed sequel. Word's out that it's everything a sequel is supposed to be, even eclipsing the original Top Gun. Now slated for release on May 27th.

People walk out of dark theater rooms and are blinded by the light. But if you live the movie it's always light, so no shock involved.

[Red Badger]

Interesting. Ireland's national symbol is a harp..........................

[Ezekiel]

Interesting. Ireland's national symbol is a harp

Explains the red-haired gene, and the common belief -- based on the adjective "admoni" -- that David had red hair. ;)

Purim and Saint Patrick's Day were on the same day this year.

[Red Badger]

There is a belief that Jeremiah left the Levant with the Daughters of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, and went to what is now the British Isles, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and thus replanted the throne of David into a new location.........................

[Ezekiel]

There is a belief that Jeremiah left the Levant with the Daughters of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, and went to what is now the British Isles, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and thus replanted the throne of David into a new location.........................

Then there's literal signage. It's a trippy message on multiple levels.

Washington, "David's Capital".

[Red Badger]

Washington? No, the throne is in Westminster................

[Rebelbase]

David would have enjoyed playing some of the modern harp inspired instruments.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Sometimes the background crowd is an integral component of telling the story (”Israel, here is your king!”), but when possible the simplicity of focusing just on the central characters is more compelling.

[Hebrews 11:6]

It appears to me like a wary, disbelieving Saul is holding his spear in his lap, prepared and waiting for any "wrong" note as an excuse to slay sweet David and break his "defective" harp. That gal in the blue outfit knew the danger.

"Spear-Chucker Saul" will debut here on Wednesday.

[Hebrews 11:6]

He could refine his playing while with the sheep, before trying it out on Saul.