The House of David series on Amazon has been toying with unbiblical narratives for its first two episodes which in episode three are confirmed. The action-packed sword and sandals epic had arguably its best episode yet but this is for naught since Jon Erwin is committed to delegitimizing David.
Episode 3 primarily focuses on the madness of Saul. In my opinion, the madness is over the top, as the Bible states that Saul had a spirit of terror come upon him by God upon David getting anointed. Thus the favor and protection of God leaves Saul. The creative license taken is still within the realm of biblical plausibility since the Bible takes a “meanwhile” approach in the narrative in this part.
The madness of Saul is correctly attributed to God, but it gets a servant killed. The fallout from this is the main focus of the episode. Saul’s younger son makes a callous and distasteful response to the death since Saul’s wife, the queen pays damages to make the problem go away. She seeks a medium to cure the king, and she does some sort of voodoo ritual.
Samuel searches out Jesse and learns that he has disgraced himself from leadership in Judah because he sired a bastard with a Canaanite woman. This is played off as God having a sense of humor, even though the notion of David being illegitimate goes against God’s word.
No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 23:2 NASB1995
For David to be a bastard would entail that his children to the tenth generation would be ceremonially unclean. This would make Solomon unable to worship in the temple that he built. It would not impact Christ, as He was more than ten generations descended from David.
But Jon Erwin’s decision to ride on the illegitimacy of David pits David against God’s word and is a poor use of creative license.
Elsewhere in the episode we are introduced to Goliath, and I found this to be the best scene of the series so far. On a cringe note, “Yahweh” is used in dialog as a name for God which is linguistically incorrect.
It’s a great shame that House of David bastardized its titular character because the potential of a decent show was otherwise there.
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The entire purpose of shows such as “House of David”, “The Chosen”, and anything created by the evil subversive “Angel Studios” is to de-Whitify Christianity and gaslight, manipulate and deceive White Christians into wrongly believing that “god” wants to genocide the White race.
Of course, these jewish-funded movies and shows are LYING about God and Christianity.
Real Christians should ignore heretical trash such as “The Chosen” and “House of David” and anything made by “Angel Studios” (more like cultural marxist studios).
The word translated illegitimate child, in the original Hebrew, might mean half-breed (pardon my terminology), and would perhaps also rule out David being a Canaanite’s son. (It is not beyond a shadow of a doubt that Rahab was actually Canaanite, and the Moabites, notwithstanding their sordid beginning, were descended from Abraham’s nephew Lot.) In any case, they’re just doing that to fit in with the spirit of this confused age. David was a handsome, rosy-faced (or perhaps red-headed) boy, I bet no one tries to have a fair-complected or red-haired boy play David. Though I do remember a children’s book about David where he had red hair.
Some Jewish commentators held that mamzer was a nation as the verse on it comes immediately before the regulations on how many generations it takes for descendants from Ammonite and Moabite nations to be accepted, and then this verse would mean descendants from the nation of Mamzer would never be accepted.
And you should look into David’s sisters and you’ll see David is from a woman who had been the wife of a Gentile. And Jesse impregnating her while still married to the Gentile explains Psalm 51 why his mother sinned in conceiving him.
The thing that would bother me most here is that Saul took measures to remove all witches from the land which is why it was so hard for him to find a witch in the Endor incident. So making it as if his wife kept court witches is ridiculous.