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Follow the once-mighty King Saul as he falls victim to his own pride. A prophet prepares to overthrow him - anointing the outcast shepherd boy David as a second king. As Saul's fury grows, David navigates love, violence and politics in the court of the very man he's destined to replace. Two kings. One Kingdom. The outcome is war.

This is a four-hour miniseries based on Alice Hoffman's historical novel about the Siege of Masada, and it will air on CBS in 2015. The mini will focus on "four extraordinary women whose intersect in a fight for survival at the siege of Masada," the network said. Masada is the mountaintop fortress near the Dead Sea where the Romans found the last pocket of resistance after they conquered Jerusalem in 70 CE.