Gilboa

Sunday's two-hour movie premiere, which airs at 8 p. m. on Channel 2, introduces all the scheming characters from a fictional country, Gilboa, that is repeating the mistakes of past foreign dynasties.

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It will be particularly interesting to see if any contemporary feelings about Israel color the discourse around this story (which the writers and producers have carefully set NOT in Israel, but rather in a fictional kingdom called Gilboa, borrowing the name of the site of Saul's final biblical battle).

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"Kings" is set in the present in a kingdom called Gilboa, whose opulent capital, Shiloh, resembles a much cleaner New York, and which is ruled by a power-suited King Silas Benjamin, played by Ian McShane.

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In the fantasy premise, Ian McShane (from "Deadwood") plays the monarch of a country called Gilboa that looks a lot like America.

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In Kings, David isn't a shepherd; he's a mechanic turned soldier named Shepherd in the army of the country of Gilboa, which is at war with a neighboring nation called Gath.

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Shunem, situate in the plain, he made haste to oppose them with his forces; and when he was come to a certain mountain called Gilboa, he pitched his camp over-against the enemy; but when he saw the enemy's army he was greatly troubled, because it appeared to him to be numerous, and superior to his own; and he inquired of God by the prophets concerning the battle, that he might know beforehand what would be the event of it.

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Kings (“Goliath”) – On an alternate Earth (I assume its Earth, at least) in the kingdom of Gilboa, soldier David Shepherd destroys a Goliath tank and manages to rescue the son of the King.

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If the Shepherds were never citizens of Gath it would mean they fought for Gilboa to capture the land north of the river and then uprooted the original inhabitants and took their land for themselves.

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Gilboa has been at war with the neighboring kingdom Gath for years and the two are now negotiating an uneasy peace.

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A soldier in the Gilboa army, David destroys the enemy's unstoppable weapon, a tank called Goliath, and is called to the capital Shiloh to meet his God-appointed king, Silas.

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