... a camping trip as it was an effective antidote to snake bites. There was a balm in Gilead.1 There was also a king in Gilead. His name was David. His son Absalom had forced him to flee from his home and to enter the woody wilderness of Gilead. Lady Antonia Fraser tells us in her book Royal Charles that the merry monarch Charles II once hid in a tree for several hours to escape being killed by his enemies.2 David couldn’t see the forest because he was lost in the trees. Hiding as a fugitive and seeking as a ...
