When you go and read commentators you find that they all just say it well

nature fought on David's behalf or like but what does that even mean they don't

explain it but the point here seems to be that the trees are somehow playing a part in

the battle. Absalom is the guy who is overthrowing David, who's the chosen King of Israel.

The narrator talks about these trees, doing this, and then he doesn't even comment on what

he's saying.

He's leaving it up to your imagination to fill in the gaps.

And at the end of the day, you're just left there thinking, going, wow, even God's forests are coming to the aid of the king that he has chosen to lead Israel.

And Absalom's son is not, you know, come on, this guy had to have been a master horseman. He had to have been going through

for us hundreds of times and his head just gets caught in an oak. I mean, how does that even happen? The point is that that the trees themselves do in

fact seem to do the bidding of God in that story in a way that yeah maybe Tolkien is you know fantasizing about about it in a way that makes our mind think okay the trees are moving

You know a thousand miles to go and fight a war over at Isengard and sure that isn't what happened but nevertheless

there's something more going on here than just saying you know people just got lost in the forest

I think that that's that's not doing justice to what the

text is telling us. The Smithsonian that if they found out about a large skeleton somewhere was to go get it.

I'm going to assume at least one person is right because if one person's right and bust

the paradigm.

It all goes back to the fallen cherub.

And the problem with the modern day church,

they have a very truncated view of a supernatural.

This backdrop, that's just pregnant with all kinds of meaning associated with this Mount Hermann event.

Welcome to all the glory creatures.

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