Here I am ... majesty


Here I am ... majesty is a play by Wim Ramaker. The AVRO broadcast it on Thursday, January 17, 1974, from 21:38 until 22:55. The director was Jacques Besançon. Scrolling Content

The story about David and Bathseba, based on the Bible book Samuel II, is being dumped and dramatized. King David sees the beautiful Bathseba from his roof. He falls in love with her and does not make any means untested to make her his wife. The man of Bathsheba, Uria, a Hettite, is easily cleared along a dirt road. Bathseba comes to court and becomes David's wife. Yet their happiness is not undivided: a prophet of Jahweh tells them a judgment. Their son will die and the sword will not depart from David's house. In addition, one will try to bump him off the throne. Absalom, David's beautiful son, indeed seeks to execute a coup. He becomes popular with the people, trying to undermine David's throne from below. It does not all end up being so pleasant: a lot of blood is poured and Absalom dies. King David appears with Bathseba on the palace's balcony to receive the loud applause of the audience ...

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