Reading
Day 1: 2 Samuel 19:31-20:26, Psalm 7, 2 Samuel 21:1-22, 1 Chronicles 20:4-8
Day 2: 2 Samuel 22:1-51, Psalm 18
Day 3: 2 Samuel 24:1-9, 1 Chronicles 21:1-6, 2 Samuel 24:10-17, 1 Chronicles 21:7-17, 2 Samuel 24:18-25, 1 Chronicles 21:18-22:19
Day 4: 1 Chronicles 23:1-25:31
Day 5: 1 Chronicles 26:1-28:21
Day 6: 1 Chronicles 29:1-22, 1 Kings 1:1-53
Day 7: 1 Kings 2:1-9, 2 Samuel 23:1-7, 1 Kings 2:10-12, 1 Chronicles 29:26-30, Psalm 4-6, Psalm 8-9, Psalm 11
Preview
Hard Questions
- (2 Sam. 19:41-43) “We have 10 shares in the king” and then the sudden desertion
- (2 Sam. 20) Why does Joab kill Amasa?
- (2 Sam. 21) David’s avenging the Gibeonites. What’s going on? Ex. 34:6•7, sins of the fathers. A limited symbolic retribution; Saul had attempted to destroy all of them, and Joshua had made a covenant to keep them alive. God defended them, even though they weren’t Israelites. God is never for the wicked, even if the wicked are technically His people.
- Why does David tell Solomon to kill the people he had spared during his reign? Removing guilt from David’s line, making justice; also. David has a really shrewd sense of what people are like. He showed mercy, but he knows they’re lying in wait for Solomon, who will be perceived as weak until he establishes himself.
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