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TITLE: What's so hot about David? | Previous Challenge Entry
By David Guion
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King Saul's counsellors suggested music therapy for his mood swings. "I know a hot new harpist in Bethlehem," said one of them. So Saul sent for David and gave him his first break.
War with the Philistines became hot and heavy. Their champion Goliath challenged the Israelites to send someone to meet him in single combat. When David came to camp with some cheese sandwiches for his brothers, Goliath was a hot topic. Whoever could beat Goliath would become Saul's son-in-law. David thought that was a hot opportunity.
No one gave him much of a chance against Goliath, but David got hot with a sling and killed him.
It looked like David would have a great career at the court, but he soon became more popular than Saul. Saul got really hot and bothered about that and made it hot for David. So David decided to hot-tail it to the wilderness, with Saul in hot pursuit.
On the way, he stopped at the tabernacle to get some hot bread. It wasn't fresh. It was a week old, but only the priests were supposed to eat it. So, to be blunt, it was stolen bread—not to be confused with Stollen bread, a traditional Christmas treat.
Saul had no idea where David was until someone gave him a hot tip about seeing him at the tabernacle. From then on, he was hot on David's trail.
David took refuge near Nabal's ranch and protected it from predators. He asked Nabal a small favor, and Nabal rudely turned him down. That made David so hot that he vowed to kill Nabal and all his men. Nabal's wife Abigail sent along a sizable gift to cool off David's anger. And Nabal promptly dropped dead of a stroke. David thought Abigail was hot, so he married her.
Eventually David became king. Militarily he had a hot streak of victories that lasted all his life. The Bible portrays him as a great king and a great poet, but not so hot as a husband or father. He made a big mistake when he had the hots for the wife of one of his best friends.
History doesn't record if he enjoyed hot peppers.
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Since David is a familiar character, I probably would change the POV from another person close to him. Such as another soldier or an errand boy.
Even though you used hot in your story, I didn't think it was essential to the story.
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