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The Reign of David
Today's reading 2Samuel 14-15
King James Version with Web Encyclopedia Links: 2Samuel 14; 2Samuel 15;
2 Samuel 14
Joab knew David had missed Absalom and that he wanted him back. David felt amger, sorrow and remorse. Joab came up with a scheme where he got a woman to go to David and ask him to help her with a family dispute. This was in a lot of ways similar to David's situation. This was the same type of approach that Nathan had used on David in 2Samuel 12 when Nathan confronted David of his sin with Bathsheba with a parable of a rich man taking a poor man's only lamb.
Guzik on 2Samuel 14
David allowed Absalom to come back to Jerusalem but was not allowed to see David. Absalom schemed on seeing Daivid so he burnt down Joab's barley field. We see Joab and Absalom working out their evil schemes in manipulating to get political control in Jerusalem
2Samuel 15
Absalom conspired to overthrow his father and start a civil war (v. 1-12). David flee Jerusalem with his loyal followers. Ittai was a good man, he decided to stay with David regardless of the outcome (19-21). We need people like Ittai in our lives to be with us whatever the cost. The king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner, an exile from your homeland. You came only yesterday. And today shall I make you wander about with us, when I do not know where I am going? Go back, and take your countrymen. May kindness and faithfulness be with you." But Ittai replied to the king, "As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be." (2 Samuel 15:19-21 NIV)
More on Ittai
Ahithophel was the grandfather of Bathsheba and was one of David's counselor (16.13), he had secretly aligned himself with Absalom in the civil war against David. According to the NIV Study Bible, this was probably in retaliation for his treatment of Bathsheba and Uriah.
Ahithophel
Arthur Pink-The Life of David
Deffinbaugh on 2 Samuel (Series)
Bob Roe on The Life of David
2 Samuel 14, with Commentaries, verse by verse
2 Samuel 15, with Commentaries, verse by verse
Links to Commentaries and other References - 2 Samuel
Bible Study Tools
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How to Become a Christian
This Posting is NOT a commentary of the passages read today but it is a devotional. Please send a comment if something spoke to you today from the passages, links or thoughts that I have shared with you.
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