Category: 2 Samuel
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Atonement
2 Samuel 24:17 “Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, ‘Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father’s house.’” Do you believe in justice? As you look…
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Which?
2 Samuel 24:12 “Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’” I’ve been reading a collection of essays by the late British pastor F. W. Boreham. What an awesome writer he was! One of his essays is curiously entitled, “That…
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To Stand Alone
2 Samuel 23:11-12 “And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines. But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and struck down…
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Get in the Fight
2 Samuel 23:8 “These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time.” 2 Samuel 23:8-39 provides a list of the “mighty men” that served King David. These men were fellow soldiers…
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Sowing and Reaping
2 Samuel 20:3-25 “And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of…
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Viewpoints
2 Samuel 22:1-4 “And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, ‘The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I…
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Why?
2 Samuel 21:1 “Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, ‘There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.’” Have you ever asked yourself, “Why is this…
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The Greatest King
2 Samuel 23:3-4 “When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God, he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.” In the words above we have some of the last words of Israel’s…
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When the King Returns
2 Samuel 19:41-43 “Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, ‘Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?’ All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, ‘Because the…
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Worthless Words
2 Samuel 20:1-2 “Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, ‘We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!’ So all the men…
To Encourage You 