King Davids bath

[Marshall]

Could this be where King David scrubbed the blood of slain enemies off his body?
More proof of the Bibles accuracy. Take that unbelievers! Praise Jesus.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Praise Jesus! Perhaps it is the same place where Godly King David washed the 200 foreskins before they were presented to the wicked Saul! This is truly an exciting discovery.

1 Samuel 18:25-- And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 18:26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired. 18:27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

[SUV]

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Big deal. "Bathing with King David" can't compare to

SHOWERING WITH JESUS!!!

SUV

[Glendora Christianson]

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I am certain that King David's Bath's changing room was free from homers, unlike the Hellish heath clubs of today. You can blame our liberal judges for outlawing stoning in many cities.

[Rachael Van Helsing]

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Mmm hmm. Yeah. Right. And I suppose coincidence is surely out of the question?

[Bobby-Joe]

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Mmm hmm. Yeah. Right. And I suppose coincidence is surely out of the question?

Not all Rachael; it is no coincidence that the modern, homer baths mock the ancient baths of the Kings of Isreal. That is just Satan's way.

[Marshall]

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Well I thought it was exciting.
This bath would have provided King David with the perfect place to relax and unwind after killing sinners and infidels all day. To think David and maybe even Jonathan might have bathed here is nothing short of incredible.

I wonder if he wrote any of the Psalms while he was there.

[Larry Lee]

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I wonder if he wrote any of the Psalms while he was there.

or entertained Bathsheba.

[Poetic Peter]

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Nope. Sorry guys. The ancient baths were all very much alike:
sexually segregated. There was no soap either.

Do you wishful thinkers even know how the bathing was done?
Do you know how... ask me or look it up.

I failed Latin 1 for good reason. I could not get past the abysmally homerish Roman bath (Romans copied the Greeks, and all the others copied the early Greeks, in all ways, sorry, true.. No, it first came from the Persians, I think.)

When you put olive oil on a salad, understand that until just a century ago,
olive oil was called "sweet oil". It really was. And do you know why?

This stuff is not in the Bible. I wish it were. Then you'd wish soap had been invented in King David's time.

[eliot mayfield]

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Of course there was no soap in a public bath!
How homer is that! lahtering up and all that stuff! It makes me quesy to think about. People dropping the soap. God, help me. I won't be able to eat for a week.

[Poetic Peter]

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Of course there was no soap in a public bath!
How homer is that! lahtering up and all that stuff! It makes me quesy to think about. People dropping the soap. God, help me. I won't be able to eat for a week.

How about for a month?

Brother, imagine you are back in that time.

It's hot, dry, dusty in the town. You smell like urine,
in part because the dust is of the street, and this is where all creatures piss.

The bath--it's really popular. If you are a greek or roman, you probably try to bathe every day. The baths are public institutions, and segregated for the sexes.

The attendants are always same-sex as you.

OK, ready? Go ahead and hop in for a soak while some young man prepares for what comes next.




scary stuff!

[OnYourKnees]

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OK, ready? Go ahead and hop in for a soak while some young man prepares for what comes next.

The direction of this thread is vigorously arousing my curiosity, whilst simultaneously raising my hackles.

I sense that something sinful this way comes.

[Poetic Peter]

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The direction of this thread is vigorously arousing my curiosity, whilst simultaneously raising my hackles.

I sense that something sinful this way comes.

Nothing that'd compare with some "witnessing" I've heard about.

After your soak in a communal pond, probably under roof,
you get slathered in oil by a servant of the bath, or by your mate,
(you might do the same for him, your buddy, I mean).

The oil used was oive oil. It was termed sweet oil for the fact that it has no bad taste, perhaps, or for the fact that it kept well for a long time; did not go rancid as do animal fats.

The oil emulsifies body soil. Soap, by the way, does the same thing, being oil based. Soap is oil rendered water soluble; so soap is quickly water rinsed.

Oil cleans skin very well though (handy fact to know, eh?)
After your mate or slave oils you, you'd be massaged and rubbed all over.

Next comes the strigil This was a curved, dull edge, usually copper knife.
I'll look for a photo of one. The scraping of the flesh removed the oil, dirt and dead skin. I presume it left a fellow feeling

By Roman times, they'd heard of soap, but rejected soap as being effete.

So nothing really changes, eh? Here's the real deal, at least about the (relatively sinful) Roman system.

http://www.cyberbohemia.com/Pages/massbathing.htm

Greek strigil


A favorite dish of the Greeks

[SUV]

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I sense that something sinful this way comes.

You are indeed perceptive, Brother.

Quiz: Do you call it a "washcloth" or use the Vulgar terminology, "washrag"?

Little things can mean a lot, particularly when we get so many Nosey Parkers on this Godly message board

SUV

[Marshall]

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Calling Kind David a Homo is pretty awful in my opinion. You all realize that Jesus was related to David so when you insult David, your insulting a direct ancestor of our Holy Saviour. Uncool as the kids say.

As the worlds greatest king, David would have enjoyed a private, non queer bath and even if he decided to bath in a public bath house, he would have cleared it out first. David was as straight as Fred Phelps and you can put that in the bank.

I still believe this to be good news and further proof of the Bibles being more historically accurate than demonized archeology like fossil hunting and the Homerish "Geology" or rock worshipping science.