Are you a Hera today? Have you been wronged by someone’s broken promise, and now you’re burning to make sure they pay?
David’s defining moral failure is the Bathsheba incident. He sees a beautiful woman bathing, sleeps with her, gets her pregnant, and then murders her husband, Uriah, to cover it up. The prophet Nathan confronts him, and David repents—but the consequences are brutal. His child dies. His son Amnon rapes his daughter Tamar. Another son, Absalom, leads a coup and sleeps with David’s concubines on the palace roof for all to see. hera and david
Unlike Hera, David isn't the victim of a spouse’s infidelity. He is the perpetrator . And yet, his story is one of profound sorrow. He learns that power does not exempt you from pain. Are you a Hera today
One is a Greek goddess, born of titans, draped in a crown and veil, ruling Olympus as the Queen of the Gods. The other is a Jewish shepherd boy, ruddy-cheeked and overlooked, who grows into a warrior-king and the ancestor of a Messiah. He sees a beautiful woman bathing, sleeps with