Noble: The Story of Maakah by Mesu Andrews Session 1: Sizing Up the

Session 1: Sizing Up the Enemy (43:26)—Everything that occurs in the visible

with a family and established lives and careers

makes a choice that risks everything

including her marriage

Norman the teddy bear

Noble: The Story of Maakah by Mesu Andrews Session 1: Sizing Up thePrincess Maakah of Geshur is duty bound to create a political alliance for her father through marriage. The cancellation by King Saul of her betrothal to his fourth born son compels Maakah's father to arrange an unexpected marriage to the rebel David ben Jesse, a shepherd warrior anointed years earlier as Israel's future king. Taken aback by stories of David's fierceness and lowly birth, Maakah considers the match a degrading fate but obeys her