April 7 Readings

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The Reign of David
Today's reading 2Samuel 8-12
King James Version with Web Encyclopedia Links: 2Samuel 8; 2Samuel 9; 2Samuel 10; 2Samuel 11; 2Samuel 12;

2 Samuel 8.1-14; 1Chronicles 18.1-13
David was victorious over his enemies. He defeated the Moabites (2), and the the Aramaens (3-5). He was victorious because of God. God can give us victories of the enemies of our spiritual life. It may not mean that we are successful financially

2 Samuel 8.15-18; 1Chronicles 18.1-14-17 spoke about the officials of David’s kingdom, among them were Joab, Zadok, Benaiah and David’s sons whoe were advisers.

2Samuel 9 is the story of David treatment of Mephibosheth. David had remembered the covenant he made with Jonathan (1Samuel 20.14-17). He asked if there was any one alive from Saul’s household. He found out about Mephibosheth and he took care of him and he ate at the king’s table. This is a beautiful illustration of Jesus reaching down to us. In this case Jesus is represented by David and Mephibosheth is represented by us who ware sinners. Mephibosheth realized that he did not deserved David’s kindness and he humbled himself before David. He was an enemy of David because of his relationship with Saul who was his grandfather. He was also crippled. Yet despite all of the shortcomings of Mephibosheth, David showed mecry to him just as how Jesus showed mercy towards us while we were God’s enemies.

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2Samuel 10.1-19; 1Chronicles 19.1-19 is the account of how David defeat the Ammonites. Nahash the king of the Ammonites died. Hanun, his son succeeded him. David thought he would show kindness to Hanun just as how Nahash had showed kindness to David. David sent some of his men to Hanun. Hanum overreacted after hearing the counsel of he nobles of the Ammonites. He ordered that Daivid’ smen have half of each man’s beard shaved, and cut off their garments in the middle of the buttocks, and sent them back to David. In the Middle Eastern culture this was considered an insult of the worst kind. David declared war against the Ammonites. They were soundly defeated, along with their allies the Aramaeans (Syrians). We should leaen not to jump to conclusion without weighing the matter carefully. Let us learn from the mistake of Hanun.

2 Samuel 11
It was spring and David stayed in Jerusalem instead of going with Joab and the army to fight the Ammonites. One evening, he saw Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, taking a bath on a roof-top. He ended up having an affiar with her, and from that union had a baby. He covered the matter up by setting Uriah up in the heat of battle, such that everyone retreated and Uriah was killed.

2 Samuel 12
Nathan confronted David of his sin with Bathsheba with a parable of a rich man taking a poor man's only lamb. David was very angry and said that the rich man shoild pay fourfold. Nathan said to him that David was a rich man. David acknowledged his sins and God forgave him but he still had to pay the consequences of his sins. He had to reap what he sowed in his life. He had to pay a heavy price because he was the king. In this passage, the Bible warned us that those who are given more responsibility and privileges from God will be judged more severely. David wrote Psalm 51 in which he acknowledged that it was against God that he sinned. His sins were given but he had to pay the price, he and Bathsheba lost the baby.

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2Samuel 13
This is the tragic story of Tamar being raped by her step-brother, Amnon (v. 1-22). Absalom, Tamar's sister killed Amnon in revenge for what he did. This heartache and pain came ultimately from David's sin with Bathsheba. Sometimes we are not aware that the consequences of our sins have effect not only on the parties involved but it may affect families and friend and the whole. community.



arthur Pink-The Life of David
Deffinbaugh on 2 Samuel (Series)
Bob Roe on The Life of David

2 Samuel 7, with Commentaries, verse by verse
2 Samuel 8, with Commentaries, verse by verse
2 Samuel 9, with Commentaries, verse by verse
2 Samuel 10, with Commentaries, verse by verse

Links to Commentaries and other References - 2 Samuel

Bible Study Tools
Jesus Saves
How to Become a Christian

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