[quote]pushharder wrote:
IS, I can’t buy your scenario:
The wife of the king runs around town in the middle of the night looking for the king so she can get laid. She runs into the cops, they mistake her for a hooker and beat and injure her.
She responds by attracting a group of hookers (did she meet them in the city jail?) who follow her back to the palace so they can watch her dance naked for her man. She finds her man and he the king runs off the hookers so they can’t watch him and her make love.
Nope. Can’t buy all that.[/quote]
LOL - not when you change my words . .of course not . . lol
A wife of the King ( I say the true wife) who resides in her own private residence awaits her lover, the king, and he finally comes to her late in the night after a busy day of doing kingly things, maybe even returning from a war - she teases him by not opening the door immediately, he (thinking she must be asleep and unwilling to open the door so late at night leaves, she realizes she took too long when she opens the door and realizes he has left.
He may have decided to walk his city at night to ensure all was well or simply to go back to his residence for the evening, we don’t know, but anyway - she rushes out into the night, runs into a couple of the night watch who mistake her for another prostitute and abuse her, she is able to get away from them (maybe even with the help of the hookers), she continues her frantic search and she now has the attention of the hookers, they are intrigued by this half-dressed woman rushing frantically about the city, she asks for their help in locating her lover.
They want to know what kind of man could make a lady risk her life and health running around the city at night - she tells them how wonderful he is - they offer to help find him - she has spotted him and rushes to him - they embrace - you can imagine her joy at finding him after her horrible experiences and his that he will be able to spend the night with her - their embrace turns passionate - she starts to drag him off -
the hookers want to see the end of this show, but He says this is a private thing not a public display why should they get to see this? and the narrative ends - opening again with her and him making sweet passionate love
It’s all there textually, no stretch, no adding to the text, taken just as the Hebrew states it.
Now I really do need to go - thanks again Push.