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2 Samuel 22:
David sang a song of deliverance to God for all the Lord had done for him.
Always have the spirit of gratitude to God and to People. God loves
singing and dancing through praise and worship. David calls God his
rock that prevented his from death and destruction. David thanked God for
hearing and responding when he called for rescue. He credited God for
scattering and conquering his enemies. David claims that God is a shield
for refuge against the enemies. He thanks God for making him king over
nations of people he does not know because his faithfulness to God is paying off.
2 Samuel 23: The last words of David and a list of the heavy men. David
talks about a man who kills 800 men in a single battle and talk about various
warriors who struck down the Philistines at various times to give Israel
victory. Three men also broke through enemy lines to bring David water
from the gate of Bethlehem, but David refused to drink the water because men
risked their lives to get him something to drink - men's loyalty to their king
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The Political & Spiritual Purpose of the
Holy Land
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2 Samuel 24:
God commanded David to carry out a census of Israel. In 9 months and 20
days, they counted 800,000 in Israel and 500,000 in Judah - a total of 1.3
million Israelis. It was because of
David's sin of killing Uriah to marry Bathsheba that God made him choose one of
three options as his punishment. First was famine in Israel for 3 years,
the second was enemies of Israel chasing him around the place for 3 months, or
the third of pestilence for 3 days. David defaulted to God, so there was
pestilence for 3 days and a total of 70,000 people died for his sin and not
David. It was more of an economic, social, and political punishment and
God then told the angel in charge of the pestilence to stop. Followers of
God must have a say about who leads them rather than being quiet, staying away
from politics, being too docile, or being too obedient. If you do not
chose worthy leaders to represent you, it will be you and your children that
will die for their political evil and incompetence. A leader's
error
will always fall on its citizens.
1 Kings 1:
David was old and Adonijah, handsome son of David and next in line to
Absalom, went ahead to declare himself king of Israel without his father's
consent. He even had a kingship feast without inviting Solomon or Prophet
Nathan. So Bathsheba and Nathan made up a plan and informed David about
it. Their plan was to make Solomon king because David had already promised
Bathsheba that Solomon will be king. So David had the priest put Solomon
on the kings mule and was anointed afterwards. David then sat on the
throne and even David bowed when the people prayed that Solomon be greater than
him. Solomon promised to spare Adonijah as long as he was a worthy man
without making any trouble over the kingship issue. Solomon had the
blessing of
David and not Adonijah. |
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