Ep 57 - The Rise of Solomon

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David's oldest son, Adonijah, tries to take the throne upon his near death, but Nathan makes sure Solomon ends up king. The transfer of power was going smoothly until Adonijah asked Solomon if he could marry a little girl that David was sleeping alongside in his old age... yeah... weird.
Solomon had his brother killed and then took to the job of being king... pretty well actually. He married Pharaoh's daughter, creating an alliance with Egypt, had God give him wisdom and infinite riches, and built a crazy fancy temple for God to live in in style all decked out in gold!

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King Ahab's wife Jezebel starts killing all the prophets of God in favor of her pagan religions, so Elijah decides to have a contest between himself and all of the pagan prophets for whose god can set a bull on fire. Elijah wins, kills all the pagan prophets, and then runs faster than a horse. When Jezebel finds out about this, she decides to kill him. Elijah gets out of town and appoints a new prophet, Elisha, to take his place. Ahab and Jezebel keep fucking everything up and eventually Ahab dies.…

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Ep 60 - Kings, Civil Wars, and the Rise of Elijah 9:29

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A bunch of kings came and went and Judah and Israel remained at war. Every king decided to try other gods out for size except Asa, who God rewarded with a lethal foot disease. Eventually a new guy named Elijah came around doing all kinds of weird shit like being fed by ravens, giving ladies endless flour, and doing... questionable things to raise children from the dead.…

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Ep 59 - Israel's Downfall 9:03

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Solomon's (exactly) 1,000 wives and concubines get him to cheat on God with other gods, even that one horrible god named Molek. This pissed God off and he decided to punish by making his empire fall apart after he died. When Rehoboam, Solomon's son, takes the reigns, he promises everyone that he's going to make their lives more miserable and their workload heavier than his father had. Surprisingly they revolted and followed a new leader named Jeroboam. Jeroboam started a new religion featuring a golden calf and took 11 of the 12 tribes under his rule.…

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Ep 58 - Solomon was Fucking Rich 8:52

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Solomon finished his temple and then decided to outdo the house he made for God by building himself an even crazier, fancier building. Taking 13 years to build and almost doubling the size of the crazy gold temple, Solomon's palace was just ridiculous. Once his palace was finished, he let God move into his temple and then they came to an agreement: Solomon and his descendants don't cheat on God with all the other gods and God doesn't destroy their whole nation. To celebrate, Solomon slaughtered enough animals to fill an olympic sized swimming pool with blood. Word spread of his wealth and even the Queen of Sheba came all the way out from Yemen to witness how wealthy Solomon was. The fame of his wealth only produced more wealth and suddenly everything in his palace was made of gold and he was shipping in spices and baboons from Africa, lumber from Lebanon, and taking control of the whole fucking region.…

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Ep 57 - The Rise of Solomon 8:37

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David's oldest son, Adonijah, tries to take the throne upon his near death, but Nathan makes sure Solomon ends up king. The transfer of power was going smoothly until Adonijah asked Solomon if he could marry a little girl that David was sleeping alongside in his old age... yeah... weird. Solomon had his brother killed and then took to the job of being king... pretty well actually. He married Pharaoh's daughter, creating an alliance with Egypt, had God give him wisdom and infinite riches, and built a crazy fancy temple for God to live in in style all decked out in gold!…

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Ep 56 - The End of David 8:31

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David returns to Jerusalem after Absalom's death only to have another civil war break out immediately under a guy named Sheba. Joab took quick care of this. He met peacefully with Sheba, kissed him on the lips, grabbed his beard, and then sliced his belly open, spilling his intestines everywhere. When Joab approached Sheba's city of Abel Beth Maacah, Joab told a random old lady that if they give him Sheba's head, he wouldn't burn down their city. The old lady obliged. After this David dealt with a famine by having a bunch of Saul's children and grandchildren murdered and sacrificed in a field and then he sang a song.…

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Ep 55 - The Fall of Absalom 8:00

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David (having been overthrown by his very hairy and sexy son) was staying out in the wilderness a few miles from Jerusalem. He started making friends with the locals and he, alongside his loyalists, started building an army up, just in case Absalom decided to attack. Absalom was too busy fucking all of his dad's sex slaves to notice at first, but eventually had his two advisors discuss whether he should attack now or later. He took the advice to attack later, not only giving David the chance to build an army, but also causing one of his advisors to commit suicide as well. Absalom's army approached David and David's men wiped the floor with them, with the help of the forest of Ephraim that was eating Absalom's men for dinner. Finally Absalom got his hair caught in a tree and Joab, David' General, stabbed three javelins through his heart and then had his men beat him to death as he hung there by his hair.…

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Ep 54 - The Rise of Absalom 8:06

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After Absalom's brother rapes their sister, he has him killed. David is upset about this for some reason and Absalom is banished out... like 10 miles away. David's General, Joab, convinces David to allow Absalom to return after a few years and that turns out to be a bit of mistake. Absalom, who had 5 pounds of hair and was therefore very sexy, starting gaining more and more popularity and control, eventually forcing David to flee... like 10 miles away.…

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Ep 53 - David and Bathsheba 7:22

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When King David learned that their rival neighbors, who the Israelites had allegedly already wiped off the face of the Earth twice, the Ammonites, had lost their king, he decided to send a couple diplomats over to pay his respects. When the diplomats showed up, the Ammonite elders advised the new king that these men were most likely spies checking for any weaknesses, and they had no reason to believe otherwise. They did the only logical thing and shaved these men's beards off and cut a hole in their robe to expose their naked buttholes. This started a war. During the war, David got the hots for a woman he spied on while she was taking a bath and whose name was coincidentally Bathsheba. He did the logical thing and ordered her to the palace, ordered her to have sex with him, came inside of her, and then had her husband (who was a hero in his army currently fighting in the War of the Naked Buttholes) killed. God was so mad that he did the only logical thing. And that was to murder David and Bathsheba's baby.…

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Ep 52 - Israel and Judah Unite. 8:06

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As soon as General Abner died, two raider gang leaders decided to regicide Ish-Bosheth, making Israel temporarily king-less. Soon after, however, they all swore allediance to King David and poured oil all over his head. David thanked the raiders by cutting off their heads and feet and hanging their bodies up by his swimming pool. David wasted no time and started fucking and killing as much as he could. He reclaimed Jerusalem and the Ark of the Covenant, and killed a bunch of people for no reason, as well as hamstringing a bunch of innocent horses. Then he got wasted, took off his clothes, and started dancing for the slave girls.…

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Ep 51 - King David and the Civil War 9:58

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News comes to David that Saul and Jonathan are dead. David tears his clothes off, mourns, has the messenger killed, sings a song for them, and then returns to Hebron in Judah. Upon arrival in Judah, oil is dumped all over his head and word spreads around that Oily Dave, as they called him, was now the king. Unfortunately, Saul's old General, Abner, had declared Saul's son Ish-Bosheth to be king, starting a civil war between Israel and Judah. After a while, Ish-Bosheth pisses Abner off, Abner switches sides, and David's Commander, Joab, kills him. David was also knocking up any woman that passed by him apparently, having six kids with six different women.…

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Ep 50 - David and Saul pt 4 8:22

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David flees Saul once again, going to live near Gath with all his loyal soldiers. They raid villages and kill everyone inside from time to time, because they're the good guys in this story. Meanwhile, The Philistine armies all join forces to invade Israel. Saul finds the one medium he didn't have killed and asks her to bring Samuel's spirit up so he can get some advice. Samuel tells Saul he's going to die and so will his children. Given a long enough time line, that is the safest prediction you can make about anyone. The next day the Philistine Army attacks, David's town gets raided, and the book of Samuel comes to an end.…

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Ep 49 - David and Saul pt 3 8:46

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Saul chased David all over creation (or the land they thought was all of creation, but in reality it was like the size of Rhode Island.) When Saul finally caught up to him, the Philistines invaded. After Saul sent them packing he went and tracked David down to the Crags of the Wild Goats where he decided to go shit in a cave. David snuck up to him while he was shitting and cut part of his robe off. David then proceeded to tell him that he could have killed him, but chose not to. This made Saul back off. Then David and his men came across a rich man named Nabal, which basically means "Fool" and his sexy wife Abigail. God decided to kill Nabal because he was stupid and David decided to marry his sexy wife Abigail. Then Saul pursued David once again, David spared his life once again, and Saul went home... once again.…

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Ep 48 - David and Saul pt 2 7:51

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David continues to hide from Saul as Saul continues to hunt for him. Jonathan, not convinced his dad would be such an asshole as to kill his most loyal soldier for no reason whatsoever, agreed to go and run an experiment to see if that was actually the case. Next time he spoke to his father, he almost murdered him while flying into a blind rage over David. Jonathan was now convinced. David, fled to a nearby town called Nob and got assistance from the local priest. Saul, being the rational person he was, had this priest and his entire family and extended family ruthlessly slaughtered along with a bunch of random citizens of Nob, including their sheep and donkeys.…

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Ep 47 - David and Saul pt 1 8:11

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