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Feel free to clap or stand or dance or whatever

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you want to do with this exercise. That sounds

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very corporate. All right, so a couple things

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of kind of housekeeping while those are going

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around. Obviously, we've been doing worksheets

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and following the characters. In the days in

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which David had been ousted from Jerusalem. So

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David, who was God's man on the throne in Jerusalem,

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had lost his kingship really to Absalom and had

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to flee across the Brook Kidron and then into

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what would be considered Ephraim. And then that

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later precipitated a great war between those

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two areas in a horrible forest called the Ephraimic

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Forest. And it claimed many, many lives. We've

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looked at a bunch of interesting characters.

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We did not cover them all So if you want to go

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through and read all through there, you're welcome

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to I do believe we'll be on David a little bit

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next week and then we're gonna after that we're

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gonna be mopping up So this is the plan today.

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We're gonna do most of David. It's gonna be this

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whole sheet That's a lot of information and then

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next week. We're gonna kind of review So you've

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got your worksheets you've been saving in your

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book, great. If you don't have your worksheets

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in your notebook, then next week you're going

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to get a lot of good review over the things that

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we went over for the last three months. Yes,

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sir? That's all right. That's the way it goes

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sometimes. Okay, so we'll be doing that next

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week. It is online and always on the podcast,

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so you can watch it online or listen to the podcast

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later. What's that? I will make sure you get

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it. I will text it to you. Anybody else needs

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the podcast address? I will text it to you if

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you want me to. Or you can actually text the

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word podcast, P -O -D -C -A -S -T, podcast, to

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419 -419 -0095. Yes. Yep. Yep. Yep. We'll get

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all that for you. Yep. We'll get all that for

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you. Right, Trina? We'll make sure she has it.

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Okay. Yep. I'll get your Bible before you leave

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today. All right, sounds good. All right. First

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impressions are everything, I suppose. Okay,

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well, anyway, so here we go. So we are looking

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at the second affidavit. That's why if you see

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the word VID there, we put DA on the sheet last

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week, and so we have VID this week. We're talking

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about David. And for a location, like an address

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in the Bible, we're really looking at starting

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in 2 Samuel 20. We've been building up to this

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period of time throughout, and we've even been

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past this. when we looked at the later life of

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individuals who we already looked at before,

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okay? So in 2 Samuel chapter 20, we have another

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problem. Now this is hot on the heels of Absalom's

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revolt, okay? So they've just gotten over, they're

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just kind of pulling things back together. David

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hasn't even made all the decisions arising out

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of that yet, and that's how far we got last week.

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And it says then in 2 Samuel 20, verse 1, it

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says, Now a worthless fellow happened to be there

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whose name was Sheba. Not the same Sheba that

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we studied before. This is another guy. Sheba,

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the son of Betri, a Benjamite. And he blew the

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trumpet and said, We have no portion in David,

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nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse.

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Every man to his tents, O Israel. So all the

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men of Israel withdrew from following David and

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followed Sheba, the son of Betri. But the men

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of Judah, remains steadfast to their king from

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the Jordan even to Jerusalem. All right, and

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so we're going to break that down a little bit,

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and then we're going to use a few verses before

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it to see a contrast. The first part there, 2

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Samuel 20, verse 1, to the right -hand side,

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there is an attempt, the blanks are an attempt

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to divide, what? To divide the kingdom. There

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is an attempt to divide the kingdom. Does anybody

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know why an attempt to divide the kingdom is

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such a big deal? Why does that seem like a big

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deal? Yeah. So they're weaker alone, right? So

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as soon as you have Judah and Benjamin and ten

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other tribes of two different groups, that weakens

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them substantially, right? And so God's people

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are not supposed to be divided. They're supposed

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to be united. In fact, without getting off on

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this topic at all, I want to say to you that...

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One of the things Proverbs says God hates is

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a person who sows dissension, a person who causes

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division between God's people. It's a pretty

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big deal. So God does not want to see this succeed.

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David obviously doesn't want to see this succeed

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because then it's going to have the divided kingdom.

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After this, after Solomon, a little while later,

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the kingdom will divide. And from that point

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on, it'll never be fully God's people ever again

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in all history. So they'll never get back to

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where they're supposed to be ever. Once they

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do divide. So this is an attempt to divide the

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kingdom. It's interesting because in 2 Samuel

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19, which would be right before this, right?

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2 Samuel 19, verses 40 to 43. That's the next

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reference there. You can put that in. The people

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that are now kind of revolting against David.

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It says, now the king went to Gilgal and Shemham.

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went on with him, and all the people of Judah,

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also half the people of Israel, accompanied the

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king. And behold, all the men of Israel came

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to the king. So who is that? When it says the

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men of Israel, it's talking about the ten tribes,

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right? So all those guys, they come to the king.

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Verse 40, 2 Samuel 19, 40 -43 is the next reference.

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And then we're reading verse 40. And then 41

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says, And behold, all the men of Israel came

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to the king, and said to the king, why had our

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brothers, the men of Judah, stolen you away and

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brought the king and his household and all David's

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men with him over the Jordan? In other words,

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why weren't you there? Then all the men of Judah

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answered the men of Israel, because the king

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is a close relative to us. In other words, we

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protected him because he is close, David is close

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to us. Why then are you angry about this matter?

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Have we eaten at all at the king's expense or

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has anything been taken for us? In other words,

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they're saying, even though, We're family to

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David. We're not getting any special blessings.

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We're not getting any special benefits. But the

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men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said,

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We have ten parts in the king. Therefore, we

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have also claim on David. We have more claim

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on David than you. There we go. Why then did

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you treat us with contempt? Was it not our advice

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first to bring back our king? Yet the words of

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the men of Judah were harsher than the words

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of the men of Israel. So basically, what's happening

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between the guys of the ten tribes and the guys

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of the two? What are they doing? So it's an argument.

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So it says they argued. And what do the guys

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in Israel, our ten tribes, say? What's their

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argument? Yeah. The ten of us and two of you.

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We have more claim on the king than you do. That's

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the argument. And so in the blanks goes, they

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argued, they had more claim. But now, what we

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read to start with, 2 Samuel 20, verse 2, what

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happened? This is just very shortly later when

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this guy raises up and he says that we have no

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part with them. What happens? Yep. The ten tribes

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abandoned David. They jumped ship. They ran away.

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They left. And now there's going to be basically

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a civil war. Now, we know this civil war. We're

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not going to get deeply into it because we know

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the name of a very important guy. And his name's

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on your paper. Does anybody remember anything

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about him? Amasa? No? Yeah, well, Amasa and Joab,

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pretty big deal. What about Amasa? We actually

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looked at him. What did David tell Amasa to do?

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Should I give you a hint? Okay, so now he would

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be in charge of the entire army. And now there's

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a rebellion. Go ahead, tell me if you got it.

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Nope. Go ahead, Haley, what do you got? Tell

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me. Yep, he said go gather all the army and bring

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it back. Gather all the army of Judah and bring

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it back within three days. That's what he told

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him to do. So the next blanks are go gather the

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army of Judah. Very good, Haley. first treat

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of the night. Okay. All right. So he said, he

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told Amasa, go gather all the army. But what

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happened? What was the result of that on the

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next line? Amasa was late and was killed by Joab.

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So he was late. He didn't make it back in the

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three days. In fact, he never made it back because

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then he runs into Joab on the road and Joab grabs

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him by the beard, give him a kiss, runs him through

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with a sword, kills him. So he was late and then

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killed by Joab. Then what happens? We know this

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story because we followed Amasa and Joab through

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this time. So what happens in the next blanks?

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There's the T -A -P -S. Yep, the army pursued

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Sheba. Right, that's the guy, Sheba of Betri.

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He's the one trying to raise up the revolt. He's

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the one saying that the ten tribes should stand

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against David. So the army pursued Sheba. Now,

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we don't need a lot about him because we're studying

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David, not Sheba. But the next line tells you

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what happened to him. It says FF, which stands

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for fast forward. Does anybody remember what

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happened to him? S -H -I -I -S. I gave you the

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word is. Anybody remember? Delivered. Yep. It

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was also decapitated, that's true, but yes. So

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she threw his head over the wall. Remember there

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was that whole scene where Joab comes up and

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he's going to destroy the city, the name of which

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I wrote on your paper, Abel Beth Makah. And he

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was going to destroy that city. And they said,

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why would you destroy us? Don't destroy us. We

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are God's people, right? We're part of the nation

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of Israel. We don't deserve to be destroyed.

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And he says, well, you're harboring Sheba, Abitri

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the rebel. And she says, we'll throw you his

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head over the wall. And they kill him and they

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throw his head over the wall. And then he lets

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the city go. Joab lets the city go. And that

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result, when he comes back, David puts him in

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charge of the whole army. So Joab becomes the

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general over the whole army again because he

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caught the rebel and he didn't have to destroy

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the city to do it. All right? So now we're back

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following David. So what we have so far is a

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rebellion by Sheba of Betri that comes right

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hot on the heels of that rebellion by Absalom.

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It came right away, right after that. And we

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see the result of that. Amasa was supposed to

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get the army. Failed. Joab killed him. There's

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that nasty scene where he kills him, leaves his

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body laying on the side of the road. And then

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the men are like, they're not really joining

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the fight. So then they throw him in the field

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and cover him up with a blanket. Now everybody's

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joining the fight. That's that nasty scene. You

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can read about that if you want. Okay. And then

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that's done. So now Sheba's rebellion is done

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and the nations are unified. All the tribes are

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unified. There's 12 tribes again, all under David.

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He's the king of all of them again. And then

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comes a great famine in the land. Does anybody

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know? I mean, you might get it right on the page

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there. Does anybody know what the cause of the

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famine was? Yeah, so famine means no food, right?

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So they were running out of food. And you're

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right, floods, fires, disasters, anything could

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cause that. Yep, so famine means they didn't

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have food in the land. Does anyone remember why

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there's a famine? Yeah, so this is way before

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Jesus that we're talking about during King David's

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time. Okay, and so David, supposed to be a man

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after God's own heart. Yes, it's the Gibeonites,

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right? The next line says, God sent famine. And

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so if anybody tries to tell you God does not

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send bad things, that's not necessarily true,

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right? God sent famine. And it was punishment.

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So you fill in the blanks, follow right across

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under the word famine. God sent famine. It was

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punishment for the suffering of the Gibeonites.

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Okay, so the Gibeonites were a nation of people

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that were in that area during the original conquest.

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Now, about a year and a half ago, we went through

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the book of Joshua, and we ran into them. We

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went through this text, but I'm not sure if you

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would remember it or not. Does anybody remember

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what the relationship between Israel and the

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Gibeonites is supposed to be? Anybody remember

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that story at all? So Gibeonites were supposed

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to, originally God said to do what to the Gibeonites?

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Take them out. Take out everybody in the land.

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But what? Yep. Yeah. So they came in pretending

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they were from far away. They had worn out, they

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put on worn out clothes and dirty sandals, had

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stale bread in their bags, everything. And they

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came in and they said, well, we're from far away.

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But we've heard how great you are, and we want

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to make a pact with you. And we'll serve you.

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We'll be your servants. And the Israelites agreed.

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They said, okay, we'll make a pact. They weren't

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supposed to do that. They were tricked into doing

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that. So then the Gibeonites held up their end

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of the bargain. They became servants of the Israelites.

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And, in fact, were later living in Jerusalem

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and on that surrounding land. It became pretty

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common. They prospered. And they're God -fearers.

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They came to follow God, right? With the Jewish

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people, with the Israelites, they were following

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God. But in Saul's day, Saul took it upon himself

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to rectify the problem, to kill the Gibeonites.

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Because that's what was supposed to be done in

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the first place. Because God originally told

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them to wipe them out. And he says, well, our

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forefathers made this error and let the Gibeonites

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live, but we're not going to do that. We're going

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to fix it, finally, after all this time. And

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so he took it upon himself to kill him and his

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army, obviously, to kill them. And that's the

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next line. Can you fill it out? The K is king.

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King Saul? Had. King Saul had. Starts with a

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T. It's a verb. He failed, but if you're doing

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something and you fail, you tried. So King Saul

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had tried to kill them. So King Saul had tried

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to kill off the Gibeonites. The Israelites, the

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next line is the Israelites, what? Based on the

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story I just shared with you, the Israelites

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had made a pact with them. So the end results

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of this are kind of nasty. I'm going to read

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you a few verses from, this is from chapter 21.

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It's really all detailed in verse 1 to 9. It

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says, Now there was a famine in the days of David

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for three years, year after year. And David sought

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the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said,

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It is for Saul and his bloody house, because

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he put the Gibeonites to death. So the king called

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the Gibeonites and spoke to them. The Gibeonites

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were not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant

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of the Amorites. And the son of Israel made a

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covenant with them. But Saul had sought to kill

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them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah.

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Thus David said to the Gibeonites, What should

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I do for you? How can I make atonement that you

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may bless the inheritance of the Lord? Then the

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Gibeonites said to him, We have no concern of

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silver or gold with Saul or his house, nor is

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it for us to put any man to death in Israel.

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And he said, I will do whatever you say. So they

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said to the king, the man who consumed us and

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who planned to exterminate us from remaining

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within any border of Israel, let seven men from

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his sons be given to us, and we will hang them

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before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen

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of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

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But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of

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Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath

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of the Lord which was between them, between David

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and Saul's son Jonathan. So the king took two

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sons of Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, Armani,

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and Mephibosheth, whom she had borne to Saul,

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and the five sons of Merab, the daughter of Saul,

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whom she had borne to Adriel, the son of Barzillai,

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the Mahalathite. There we go. He gave them into

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the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged

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them in the mountain before the Lord, so that

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the seven of them fell together, and they were

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put to death in the first days of harvest at

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the beginning of the barley harvest. Okay? And

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so we're back on the page now. So we just said

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the Israelites had made a pact with them. The

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next line is? Yep. Seven of Saul's sons. That's

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a tongue twister. Seven of Saul's sons. Can you

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say it? Were given. That's correct. Seven of

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Saul's sons were given. But, what? The next line.

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That person you guys, one of the most difficult

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names to spell. Right. But Mephibosheth, there

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we go. His name is hard to say. Mephibosheth

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is spared or survives. And remember he did that

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because when we talked about this before, Jonathan

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spared David. Jonathan, who should have been

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the descendant of Saul and become king, he was

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the firstborn son, he protected David when Saul

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was trying to kill David. And so now, David had

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promised Mephibosheth that he would be spared,

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and now he spares him again. But we still have

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a problem here, because there's seven people

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that just got really martyred. This is not war.

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It's legal, maybe, by some stretch. To punish

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Saul's family for what Saul and his family did.

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That's some stretch. But it's still a problem.

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So in verse 10 it says, And Rizpah the daughter

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of Aiah took sackcloth, that's just that dark

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gray useless kind of cloth, and spread it for

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herself on the rock from the beginning of harvest

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until it rained on them from the sky. And she

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allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest

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on them by day nor the beasts of the field by

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night. When it was told David that Rizpah, the

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daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had

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done, then David went and took the bones of Saul

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and the bones of Jonathan, his son, from the

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men of Jebesh Gilead, who had stolen them from

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the open square of Beth -shan, where the Philistines

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had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck

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down Saul in Gilboa. He brought up the bones

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of Saul and the bones of Jonathan, his son, from

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there, and they gathered the bones of those who

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had been hanged. They buried the bones of Saul

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and Jonathan, his son, in the country of Benjamin

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in Zillah, in the grave of Kish, his father.

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Thus they did all that the king commanded. So

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David is ordering all of this. And after that,

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God was moved by entreaty for the land. Okay?

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So we're right under where it says 10 to 14.

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That was 10 to 14. And you've got S, J, W, blank.

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Saul. Say again. Jonathan. Saul and Jonathan

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were, they were hanged previously, but now they're

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what? It starts with an H. You're buried in the

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graves of your father with great ceremony. You

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are honored, right? So what he does, so this

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is how this happens sometimes. And when we take

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justice, if you will, in our own hands, then

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what we have to do is say, well, this person

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was harmed. There's only one way I can make that.

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I can't pay it back. There's no way of undoing

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what they did. So now this other person that

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harmed them has to be harmed, right? So then

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the person that's harmed now, so you have the

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person harmed, negative person harmed because

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that person was harmed. Now the family of this

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person who's harmed because that person, now

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they're upset, right? It's a lose -lose situation.

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Vengeance never works, right? God alone takes

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vengeance, right? So David is king. He's got

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to deal justice in the land. So he turns over

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seven of Saul's sons to the Gibeonites. They

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hang them. There was a question whether they

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would. They said, we really don't want anybody's

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death, right? But they did. They hung them so

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that they all fell at the same time. And he takes

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those bodies and the bodies of Saul and Jonathan,

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which by now are bones, right? gets them properly

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dealt with. And Saul and Jonathan are actually

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buried in the grave of Saul's father, which is

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a great honor. And remember that David really

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didn't have anything against Saul. Even when

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Saul was alive and trying to kill David, David

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had a chance to kill him and he didn't. He had

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a chance to hurt him and he didn't. And when

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he died, he mourned his death. It was a terrible

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thing. And so that's who David was. And now it's

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probably a blessing to David to be able to honor

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Saul and Jonathan. And then after Saul and Jonathan

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are honored, then what? The next line. It's capital

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G, not just because it's the beginning of the

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sentence. It's because God. Nope. What? Yes.

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You've got answers, prayers, or pleas for the

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land. Good. You've got the right idea. So notice

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that God does not answer the plea for the land

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when David gives over the seven men to be hanged.

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Some kind of justice is dealt, but God did not

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answer. Everybody's praying. They haven't had

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food in any quantity for three years. People

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are dying of starvation, right? It's terrible.

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And God does not answer their prayers when David

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hands over the seven men to be punished. She

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goes out and she's mourning the loss of her sons.

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It's a terrible thing to have your sons taken

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for crimes they didn't commit. To pay for the

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crimes of their family? That's terrible. So then,

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David honors Saul and Jonathan and takes the

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bodies of the seven hanged men and he gets them

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taken care of too. He doesn't put them in the

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grave of Saul's father. They don't really belong

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there. But he gets them all taken care of. And

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that's when God answers the prayer for the land.

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Which is interesting. So in all of that, is there

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somebody special? In the seven guys who get hung,

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Saul and Jonathan, there's somebody special in

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there that needed to be taken care of from God's

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point of view. What happened that God would now

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answer the prayer? So Saul was an anointed one.

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Saul was anointed by God, chosen by God to lead

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Israel, right? And to have his bones improperly

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dealt with, that's a pretty bad injustice. And

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so also the mother who had her sons taken to

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pay the price. That's a pretty bad injustice,

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right? And so we see that David is mending fences

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is what he's doing. He's taking care of business.

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He's trying to get to the point where everybody

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has received justice. And let's stop all this

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vengeance. Let's get to the point where we can

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have peace in the land. And these amazing choices

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that he made are what create peace in the land.

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And finally, food. Thank God. Okay? So we're

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going to continue down. Ignore that stuff over

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to the left for a minute. So we've got a W under

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the box. And this is verses 15 to 22. Alright?

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And this is what the Bible says in verse 15.

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Now when the Philistines were at war again with

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Israel, David went down and his servants with

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him, and they fought against the Philistines.

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David became weary. Okay? So that was verse 15.

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So what do you think that first line is? War

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again with the Philistines. So the Philistines

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are not Israelites. In fact, no one really knows

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for sure where they came from. Even historians

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don't know where they came from. They were seafaring

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from another nation. that came and took over

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that area that became Philistia. So historically,

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we don't even know where they came from. But

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they took over that area, and they became all

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the way back to the judges. You know, Samson.

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That's who he fought, was the Philistines. And

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he destroyed the Philistine lords. And after

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he was blinded and got his sight back, just enough

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to pull the pillars down and knock the building

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down on them. That's the Philistines. So this

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is all the way back. This problem has persisted,

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and it's continuing now. And Gath... is in Philistia.

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Which means, and if you're from, Natalie, if

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you're from Gath, you're a what? Do you remember

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that? What do you call it? So if you're from

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America, you're an American. A what? Are you

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saying Hittite? It's Gittite with a G. Right

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idea though. So I couldn't tell if you were pronouncing

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it right. So it's a Gittite. A Gath is a Gittite.

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And who was a Gittite? Say it again? Goliath,

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right? So that big battle of Goliath from Gath

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and David from where? Bethlehem. And the battle

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took place kind of in the middle on the border.

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And that's in canon. That's in their history.

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That's a huge deal, right? And what happened

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with Samson when he killed all their lords? There's

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never going to be peace between the Philistines

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and Israel. It's too much blood, right? Too much

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destruction. And so that's where we're at. They're

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at war again with the Philistines. Now, an interesting

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thing happens here that kind of does bring it

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to a close for a while, okay? In verse 16, it

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says this. It says, Then Ish -bib -nab, there

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we go, Ish -bib -nab, who was among the descendants

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of the giant. Who are we talking about? Goliath,

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right? Among the descendants of the giant. Hold

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on, I lost my thought. Here we go. The weight

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of whose spear was 300 shekels of bronze in weight

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was girded with a new sword. He got himself a

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new sword and he intended to kill David. But

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Abishai, we studied him, the son of Zariah, helped

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him and struck the Philistine and killed him.

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Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You

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shall not go out again with us to battle, that

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you may not extinguish the lamp of Israel. Now

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it came about after this that there was war again

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with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibachai, the

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Hushethite, struck down Saph, who was among the

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descendants of the giant. So here goes another

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guy, another one of Goliath's kids. And there

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was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and

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Elhanan, the son of Jeroboam, the Bethlehemite,

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which means he came from where David came from,

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killed Goliath the Gittite. Now we have another

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guy named Goliath. The shaft of whose spear was

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like a weaver's beam. And there was war at Gath

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again. So that's where they came from. Where

00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:11.420
there was a man of great stature who had six

00:31:11.420 --> 00:31:13.920
fingers on each hand and six toes on each feet,

00:31:14.140 --> 00:31:17.380
24 in number, and he also had been born to the

00:31:17.380 --> 00:31:21.930
giant. And when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the

00:31:21.930 --> 00:31:24.950
son of Shimei, David's brother, struck him down.

00:31:25.630 --> 00:31:28.509
These four were born to the giant in Gath, and

00:31:28.509 --> 00:31:30.769
they fell by the hand of David and by the hand

00:31:30.769 --> 00:31:34.009
of his servants. Okay? And so now we're back

00:31:34.009 --> 00:31:37.150
on the page. We had war again with the Philistines,

00:31:37.289 --> 00:31:39.670
and now we have that really big, long sentence.

00:31:40.430 --> 00:31:48.289
Go ahead. Yep. Is that far as you got? You got

00:31:48.289 --> 00:31:54.089
more. It's perfect so far. And fell. And fell

00:31:54.089 --> 00:31:55.769
to the hands of David and his servants. That's

00:31:55.769 --> 00:32:01.150
perfect. Well done. So these four were born to

00:32:01.150 --> 00:32:07.730
the giant in Gath. And fell to the hands of David

00:32:07.730 --> 00:32:12.170
and his servants. So all the sons of Goliath

00:32:12.170 --> 00:32:15.150
died. I kind of like the last one. I mean, the

00:32:15.150 --> 00:32:17.230
poetic. I don't like anybody dying and whatever.

00:32:17.390 --> 00:32:26.059
But the poetic. impact of the guy who killed

00:32:26.059 --> 00:32:30.940
the Bethlehemite who killed one of them and then

00:32:30.940 --> 00:32:36.880
the guy who killed what was his name I'm going

00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:42.140
to get it take care oh it doesn't say his name

00:32:42.730 --> 00:32:44.529
He also had been born of the giant, and when

00:32:44.529 --> 00:32:46.789
he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimei,

00:32:46.849 --> 00:32:48.769
David's brother, struck him down. So I think

00:32:48.769 --> 00:32:50.829
it just kind of helps you remember that it was

00:32:50.829 --> 00:32:53.569
a man named Jonathan. Before that was a Bethlehemite,

00:32:53.670 --> 00:32:55.630
right? Which is where David is from, David's

00:32:55.630 --> 00:32:58.309
hometown. But anyway, they killed all the sons

00:32:58.309 --> 00:33:01.289
of Goliath. And it does start to look like the

00:33:01.289 --> 00:33:02.730
Philistines are going to have a hard time with

00:33:02.730 --> 00:33:05.670
the Israelites. And now we're living in a time

00:33:05.670 --> 00:33:07.170
thousands of years later, and it's still true.

00:33:08.789 --> 00:33:12.359
So the Israelites are... They're there again.

00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:14.240
Let's put it that way, without getting into it.

00:33:14.299 --> 00:33:19.259
We talk about, well, we won't get into modern

00:33:19.259 --> 00:33:23.180
politics. All right, so 2 Samuel 22 .20 is the

00:33:23.180 --> 00:33:28.259
next reference. Okay, so we're into chapter 22,

00:33:28.380 --> 00:33:32.480
and almost all, is it all? Nope, there's a few

00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:35.660
verses at the beginning. So from verse, you're

00:33:35.660 --> 00:33:38.079
not going to read it. You can read it on your

00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:40.880
own. But beginning in verse 2, all the way through

00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:44.900
verse 51, is a song of David. We know David wrote

00:33:44.900 --> 00:33:47.519
a lot of songs. And a lot of them wound up in

00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:50.960
Psalms. And we read two of those last week that

00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:52.599
were specifically for the period of time when

00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:56.420
David had sinned with Bathsheba and Absalom rebelled

00:33:56.420 --> 00:33:58.599
against him and took over. And it was Psalm 38

00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:01.039
and Psalm 51. We read and looked at those last

00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:04.900
week. We could see David's mindset. We could

00:34:04.900 --> 00:34:07.619
see how his heart was. Right? During the time

00:34:07.619 --> 00:34:09.659
of Absalom's rebellion because of those Psalms.

00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:11.840
That's really cool that you can do that now so

00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:16.280
many thousands of years later. Okay? But in verse

00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:19.119
20 of this song, David writes something that

00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:21.599
is our next sentence on the page. And it says,

00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:23.940
and this is verse 20, then you can see if you

00:34:23.940 --> 00:34:26.699
can fill it in. He also brought me forth into

00:34:26.699 --> 00:34:30.599
a broad place. He rescued me because he delighted

00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:33.920
in me. I'll read it one more time. He also brought

00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:37.929
me forth into a broad place. He rescued me because

00:34:37.929 --> 00:34:45.489
he delighted in me. Yep. Yep. He brought me forth

00:34:45.489 --> 00:34:48.690
because he delighted in me. Why is that sentence

00:34:48.690 --> 00:34:50.349
so significant? What's the first thing you notice?

00:34:51.489 --> 00:34:55.110
We talked about this when we talked about David's

00:34:55.110 --> 00:34:57.429
story up until the Bathsheba incident and then

00:34:57.429 --> 00:35:02.550
into Absalom. Let me ask it this way. Why did

00:35:02.550 --> 00:35:09.539
God bring David into Being king of Israel. Why

00:35:09.539 --> 00:35:13.300
did he do that? It's in the verse we just read.

00:35:14.780 --> 00:35:19.380
Because he delighted in him. Did God delight

00:35:19.380 --> 00:35:22.280
in David when David was sinning against Bathsheba?

00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:30.059
He didn't? No, he did. Right? And God brought

00:35:30.059 --> 00:35:33.739
David through even that. Now, did David get punished?

00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:36.500
Yes. But if he had ceased to delight in him,

00:35:36.619 --> 00:35:40.820
then would he have become king? Right? He brought

00:35:40.820 --> 00:35:43.679
him through that period of time. So this is a

00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:49.420
recognition of God's power, God's choice, God's

00:35:49.420 --> 00:35:52.599
calling, God's anointing. It is not because you're

00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:55.079
smart or strong or made good decisions in the

00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:57.300
past or making a good decision right now in this

00:35:57.300 --> 00:35:59.800
moment. God will not stop loving you. By the

00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:02.769
way, when the angels sing in the sky, about the

00:36:02.769 --> 00:36:04.590
birth of Jesus. Fast forward to the New Testament

00:36:04.590 --> 00:36:07.409
for one second. When the angels sing in the sky

00:36:07.409 --> 00:36:10.869
about the birth of Jesus, how does it say God

00:36:10.869 --> 00:36:17.190
feels about people? That's true. There's a specific

00:36:17.190 --> 00:36:23.269
words there. It says he's... Yep. Absolutely.

00:36:28.469 --> 00:36:35.059
Right. Right, so she's saying Jesus was God's

00:36:35.059 --> 00:36:37.440
gift to mankind, that God made a way because

00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:40.079
he loves us. All of that is true. And the angels

00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:45.539
sing this. Yes, goodwill towards men, with whom?

00:36:48.739 --> 00:36:53.300
Josh got it. With whom God is pleased. Do you

00:36:53.300 --> 00:36:58.059
understand? With sinners. You have to realize

00:36:58.059 --> 00:37:03.190
that God's love transcends our stupidity. Right?

00:37:03.190 --> 00:37:05.429
God's love cannot make you come to heaven with

00:37:05.429 --> 00:37:08.250
him for an eternity. Right? You have to be willing.

00:37:08.409 --> 00:37:11.650
He's not going to force that on you. But he loves

00:37:11.650 --> 00:37:13.610
even people who are willingly choosing to go

00:37:13.610 --> 00:37:17.230
to hell. He loves even people who hate him. And

00:37:17.230 --> 00:37:18.550
there were lots of people on there. In fact,

00:37:18.590 --> 00:37:20.769
it says that Jesus came when there was found

00:37:20.769 --> 00:37:24.010
no mediator amongst men. So there was no one

00:37:24.010 --> 00:37:25.889
who could mediate between man and God anymore.

00:37:26.010 --> 00:37:29.090
That's why it was time for Jesus to come. So

00:37:29.090 --> 00:37:31.010
that means there was tons of wicked people on

00:37:31.010 --> 00:37:33.449
the earth. People's hearts were not toward God.

00:37:33.789 --> 00:37:38.349
Yet the angels sing goodwill towards men with

00:37:38.349 --> 00:37:43.150
whom God is pleased. And so David understood

00:37:43.150 --> 00:37:46.190
that God brought David into a broad place because

00:37:46.190 --> 00:37:48.789
God delighted in him. And the truth is God wants

00:37:48.789 --> 00:37:51.489
to do the same thing for us. If you think, well,

00:37:51.510 --> 00:37:53.829
my situation sucks, God wants to bring you into

00:37:53.829 --> 00:37:56.110
a place where you can work for him, you can serve

00:37:56.110 --> 00:37:59.739
him, you can love him freely. You can be okay.

00:38:00.420 --> 00:38:04.019
You know, you can be not harried all the time,

00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:06.480
not hurting all the time. Like God has a plan.

00:38:06.659 --> 00:38:08.820
And that's what, of course, the prophet says,

00:38:08.980 --> 00:38:13.360
I know the plans I have for you, right? God delights

00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:15.860
in people, even in the midst of their stupidity.

00:38:15.900 --> 00:38:18.059
Now, it does not mean he will not punish. He's

00:38:18.059 --> 00:38:20.159
still sent of famine because of the suffering

00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:23.300
of the Gibeonites. Three years, people were starving.

00:38:23.460 --> 00:38:25.880
You think God doesn't love us. God hates us,

00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:27.610
right? And people say that all the time, right?

00:38:27.650 --> 00:38:30.329
If God loves people, why would he allow earthquakes?

00:38:30.909 --> 00:38:33.030
Why would he allow abortion? Why would he allow

00:38:33.030 --> 00:38:35.550
murder? Why does he allow rape? Why does God

00:38:35.550 --> 00:38:37.769
allow those things if he loves us? Well, God

00:38:37.769 --> 00:38:41.449
loves the person doing those things too, right?

00:38:41.590 --> 00:38:43.769
God loves the creation that has been subjected

00:38:43.769 --> 00:38:47.489
to futility. So when tornadoes strike, God loves

00:38:47.489 --> 00:38:52.610
the wind, right? God, his creation is good. It's

00:38:52.610 --> 00:38:55.679
just flawed now because of sin. And it will be

00:38:55.679 --> 00:38:58.800
ultimately redeemed. If God destroyed all tornadoes,

00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:01.539
we would be in a way. This world would be hurting.

00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:05.380
You couldn't breathe. If God destroyed all floods,

00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:07.760
we wouldn't have enough water to drink. We'd

00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:12.420
all die of thirst. If God destroyed all murderers

00:39:12.420 --> 00:39:14.340
or everybody who was ever angry in their heart

00:39:14.340 --> 00:39:16.639
against somebody, this would be a barren rock.

00:39:16.820 --> 00:39:19.300
There'd be no people living on it. If he destroyed

00:39:19.300 --> 00:39:21.360
all liars, I would have died before I turned

00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:26.039
26. Because I was a liar and a thief, right?

00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:29.019
And so you can't go out going, why doesn't God,

00:39:29.059 --> 00:39:32.519
God delights in that person who is sinning against

00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:37.019
him as well. Now, he much prefers obedient, faithful

00:39:37.019 --> 00:39:38.800
servants. He much prefers those who love him

00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:41.480
back. And that's what he's seeking, worshipers

00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:43.699
in spirit and in truth. That's what he's seeking,

00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:46.719
right? And he will draw them from those whom

00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:49.730
he delights and some will refuse. And they'll

00:39:49.730 --> 00:39:51.269
go to hell for eternity because they refused.

00:39:51.329 --> 00:39:53.269
Because of what they have done with the Son of

00:39:53.269 --> 00:39:55.570
God. Because they refused to accept Jesus. And

00:39:55.570 --> 00:39:57.849
that's very disappointing. That is not what God

00:39:57.849 --> 00:40:00.030
wants. God doesn't want anybody to go to hell.

00:40:00.469 --> 00:40:04.050
Let me clarify that. God does not want any human

00:40:04.050 --> 00:40:09.630
to go to hell. Why did I clarify that? Yeah.

00:40:10.349 --> 00:40:12.309
Because he didn't spare the angels. The demons

00:40:12.309 --> 00:40:15.010
are going to hell. That's settled. Right? He

00:40:15.010 --> 00:40:18.230
doesn't want any humans to go to hell. Okay.

00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:20.639
So I got a little bit of a pulpit there. I'm

00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:22.780
standing in front of a pulpit. It's cool. All

00:40:22.780 --> 00:40:25.920
right. 2 Samuel 22, 51. Then we're jumping ahead.

00:40:26.199 --> 00:40:29.380
This is also in the song. It is the end of the

00:40:29.380 --> 00:40:32.119
song. And it just kind of really brings home

00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:33.539
the thought, which we had. I'll read the verse.

00:40:33.579 --> 00:40:36.719
You see if you can fill it in. He is a tower

00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:41.280
of deliverance to his king and shows loving kindness

00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:46.280
to his anointed, to David and his descendants

00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:54.579
forever. Can anybody do it? Yep. He is a tower

00:40:54.579 --> 00:41:01.500
of deliverance. Shows loving kindness. Keep going.

00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:06.360
To David. That's right. And I think David is

00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:10.139
a great illustration for us in just exactly what

00:41:10.139 --> 00:41:12.440
we're just talking about. He continued to show

00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:16.139
loving kindness to him even when David was sinning

00:41:16.139 --> 00:41:18.619
against him. And David gets this right because

00:41:18.619 --> 00:41:21.579
he realizes that What God really wants is a contrite

00:41:21.579 --> 00:41:23.380
heart, a broken and contrite heart. We talked

00:41:23.380 --> 00:41:25.019
about that last week, a broken and contrite heart.

00:41:25.059 --> 00:41:27.539
That's what God really wants. And David gives

00:41:27.539 --> 00:41:29.500
God that, and then we'll be called a man after

00:41:29.500 --> 00:41:30.900
God's own heart. Okay, we've got to go because

00:41:30.900 --> 00:41:34.119
this is taking a minute. 2 Samuel chapter 24

00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:35.900
now. We're skipping that 24. We're still following

00:41:35.900 --> 00:41:40.079
David's life. Okay? And this is where it kind

00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:42.320
of gets dark. So here's what happens. David says

00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:44.719
this. This is 24. Now, again, the anger of the

00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:48.989
Lord burned against Israel. And it incited David

00:41:48.989 --> 00:41:52.130
against them to say, go number Israel and Judah.

00:41:53.150 --> 00:41:55.190
And the king said to Joab, the commander of the

00:41:55.190 --> 00:41:57.130
army who was with them, go about now through

00:41:57.130 --> 00:41:59.050
all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba

00:41:59.050 --> 00:42:01.070
and register the people that I may know the number

00:42:01.070 --> 00:42:06.530
of the people. So what's the first part? Go register

00:42:06.530 --> 00:42:10.489
the people. That's pretty directly from verse

00:42:10.489 --> 00:42:15.070
2. Now, jumping ahead a little bit. We're following

00:42:15.070 --> 00:42:18.170
David's actions. Ultimately, Joab does do it.

00:42:18.190 --> 00:42:20.550
You can get a number of how many warriors there

00:42:20.550 --> 00:42:23.070
were in the land, which is a pretty big number,

00:42:23.130 --> 00:42:25.449
but it's ultimately not big enough to deal with

00:42:25.449 --> 00:42:27.289
something like what Mesopotamia can produce,

00:42:27.489 --> 00:42:29.849
and they will later, or the Egyptian forces become

00:42:29.849 --> 00:42:32.590
so huge. And of course, they have chariots, so

00:42:32.590 --> 00:42:36.090
that's another problem altogether. So in verse

00:42:36.090 --> 00:42:39.750
10, it says this, same chapter. Now David's heart

00:42:39.750 --> 00:42:42.530
troubled him after he had numbered the people.

00:42:43.150 --> 00:42:46.489
So David said to the Lord, I have sinned greatly

00:42:46.489 --> 00:42:49.889
in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please

00:42:49.889 --> 00:42:52.250
take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I

00:42:52.250 --> 00:42:58.969
have acted very foolishly. So no, God did not

00:42:58.969 --> 00:43:02.010
command him not to do that. In fact, God had

00:43:02.010 --> 00:43:05.510
commanded counts before. So you hear that said

00:43:05.510 --> 00:43:07.289
sometimes that God said you can't count the people,

00:43:07.349 --> 00:43:10.809
but that really... So the book of Numbers is...

00:43:11.529 --> 00:43:13.550
God counting the people. I mean, that's what

00:43:13.550 --> 00:43:15.289
it was all about. Every tribe is counted and

00:43:15.289 --> 00:43:18.369
like that. So let's ask that question real quick.

00:43:18.489 --> 00:43:20.869
Go off the worksheet for a second. Why do you

00:43:20.869 --> 00:43:24.429
think it's a problem that David counts the people

00:43:24.429 --> 00:43:26.949
now? There's two reasons right away. One's from

00:43:26.949 --> 00:43:30.190
the text and one you kind of have to kind of

00:43:30.190 --> 00:43:32.050
think broadly to maybe come up with it. So what's

00:43:32.050 --> 00:43:36.210
the first problem? Counting the people. Say it

00:43:36.210 --> 00:43:43.250
again. What's that? Well, okay, so you could

00:43:43.250 --> 00:43:45.130
count the people and determine that there isn't

00:43:45.130 --> 00:43:47.530
enough people. That's one possibility. Or you

00:43:47.530 --> 00:43:49.650
could count the people and determine that there

00:43:49.650 --> 00:43:55.070
is enough people. For what? What's enough people?

00:43:59.550 --> 00:44:03.389
Yeah, so that's the problem. It only leads you

00:44:03.389 --> 00:44:06.309
to a problem if you have enough people, that's

00:44:06.309 --> 00:44:08.710
arrogance. You don't have enough people, that's

00:44:08.710 --> 00:44:12.730
insecurity. See what I'm saying? So the problem

00:44:12.730 --> 00:44:16.309
is God didn't want him to count the people because

00:44:16.309 --> 00:44:20.590
God is the one who fights the battles. It's not

00:44:20.590 --> 00:44:22.730
the 1 .2 million soldiers that win the wars.

00:44:23.710 --> 00:44:25.369
This is really stretching your minds now, but

00:44:25.369 --> 00:44:26.969
if you remember when we studied the book of Joshua

00:44:26.969 --> 00:44:29.730
a year and a half ago, there was a battle in

00:44:29.730 --> 00:44:32.139
which they were pursuing. In fact, I think they

00:44:32.139 --> 00:44:34.760
were saving the Gibeonites in that battle. I'm

00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:35.940
not sure. That might have been the case. But

00:44:35.940 --> 00:44:37.719
anyway, the point is they were pursuing the enemy

00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:39.539
forces, and the enemy forces were outrunning

00:44:39.539 --> 00:44:43.360
them, and rocks, meteors, flew down from the

00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:48.219
sky and destroyed the runaway army. How many

00:44:48.219 --> 00:44:50.360
people do you need to destroy an army with meteors?

00:44:52.500 --> 00:44:55.380
Not very many. Two guys and enough meteors and

00:44:55.380 --> 00:45:00.980
it's done. So what he's saying is, You don't

00:45:00.980 --> 00:45:02.500
need to count the people because what do you

00:45:02.500 --> 00:45:06.139
gain? We have enough people. Okay, now you're

00:45:06.139 --> 00:45:07.960
going to have a problem with arrogance. We don't

00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:08.860
have enough people. Now you're going to have

00:45:08.860 --> 00:45:10.940
a problem with insecurity. So either way, it

00:45:10.940 --> 00:45:13.019
was not God's idea to count the people at this

00:45:13.019 --> 00:45:17.420
time because there's no good outcome. There's

00:45:17.420 --> 00:45:19.219
no good outcome counting the people. The other

00:45:19.219 --> 00:45:21.019
problem we'll talk about in a minute because

00:45:21.019 --> 00:45:22.420
it's on the page. I don't want to run ahead of

00:45:22.420 --> 00:45:29.789
myself, okay? So go register the people. Then

00:45:29.789 --> 00:45:34.349
David said, go to the right from there, I have

00:45:34.349 --> 00:45:39.269
sinned in what I did. Perfect. Now, from that

00:45:39.269 --> 00:45:41.090
line, if you go all the way over to the left

00:45:41.090 --> 00:45:42.809
next to go register, you'll see that there's

00:45:42.809 --> 00:45:46.570
an arrow. Follow the arrow up to the kind of

00:45:46.570 --> 00:45:49.050
funky box right there. The funky box has another

00:45:49.050 --> 00:45:53.190
reference in it. Under the crown. Does everybody

00:45:53.190 --> 00:45:57.449
find it? Okay. And so the reference is 2 Chronicles.

00:45:58.139 --> 00:46:00.179
If you don't know this, most of these events

00:46:00.179 --> 00:46:03.760
are detailed in Chronicles as well. The book

00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:07.579
Chronicles and Kings kind of both kind of detail

00:46:07.579 --> 00:46:11.579
the history of Israel. But rather than being

00:46:11.579 --> 00:46:14.219
like this, it's a little bit more of an overview

00:46:14.219 --> 00:46:17.300
of the events, like a history. So 2 Chronicles

00:46:17.300 --> 00:46:23.699
21. The reference is 21 .1. So put in that box.

00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:28.119
I'm sorry, 1 Chronicles. 1 Chronicles 21 .1.

00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:35.460
1 Chronicles 21 .1. And this is what it says.

00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:40.900
Then Satan stood up against Israel and moved

00:46:40.900 --> 00:46:44.920
David to number Israel. And then it goes on to

00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:47.760
tell the story. So David said, go number everybody.

00:46:48.019 --> 00:46:49.679
And Joab resists at first, but then goes and

00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:52.239
numbers everybody. And then the Lord spoke to

00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:55.380
the seer. Told David what the punishment would

00:46:55.380 --> 00:46:57.260
be and all that right, so that's all the same

00:46:57.260 --> 00:47:01.519
story, but it starts with Satan Same words are

00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:10.340
in the blank stood up against Israel Amazing

00:47:10.340 --> 00:47:14.639
yeah, yeah, so he was at work during that period

00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:17.619
of time And it's very very clear the word there

00:47:17.619 --> 00:47:20.739
is the it's in Hebrew or you know once it was

00:47:20.739 --> 00:47:22.780
brought in Septuagint Septuagint was in Greek

00:47:22.780 --> 00:47:26.309
right But it means accuser. It's a proper name.

00:47:27.010 --> 00:47:29.869
He's a bad dude. And he stood up against Israel.

00:47:31.570 --> 00:47:34.610
I do think it's interesting that the writer,

00:47:34.670 --> 00:47:36.250
and I'd have to study this more. I can't answer

00:47:36.250 --> 00:47:37.630
this for you, but I'll just point it out to you

00:47:37.630 --> 00:47:40.130
so you can see it. The writer of Chronicles here

00:47:40.130 --> 00:47:43.309
calls it Israel. Is he talking about the 12 tribes

00:47:43.309 --> 00:47:45.789
and all of God's people? Or is he talking about

00:47:45.789 --> 00:47:49.630
the 10 tribes that... had previously tried to

00:47:49.630 --> 00:47:51.809
distance themselves from David's two tribes,

00:47:51.869 --> 00:47:53.829
I'd have to look into Chronicles and figure out,

00:47:53.869 --> 00:47:55.710
when he says Israel, does he mean the twelve

00:47:55.710 --> 00:47:59.269
tribes? If he does, then this is a real attempt

00:47:59.269 --> 00:48:05.929
to destroy Israel. And it almost works, as we're

00:48:05.929 --> 00:48:07.690
about to see. Okay, so now we're back on the

00:48:07.690 --> 00:48:11.610
page. Go register the people. I have sinned in

00:48:11.610 --> 00:48:13.070
what I saw. Follow that arrow back down. We're

00:48:13.070 --> 00:48:15.250
back on that line. I have sinned in what I did.

00:48:15.670 --> 00:48:19.139
Okay, now... The prophet, God sends the prophet

00:48:19.139 --> 00:48:21.659
Gad to David, and he gives him three choices.

00:48:22.460 --> 00:48:25.280
Because of what David has done, he's going to

00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:31.420
have three choices to choose from. And they are,

00:48:31.619 --> 00:48:38.099
choice A, seven years famine. Seven years famine.

00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:39.840
They're going to go without food for seven years,

00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:45.719
or lack food for seven years. Or, three months,

00:48:46.219 --> 00:48:49.619
Running from your enemies. Is David any stranger

00:48:49.619 --> 00:48:53.000
from running from his enemies? They had three

00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:54.599
years of famine. It was terrible, but they made

00:48:54.599 --> 00:48:57.619
it through. God might turn it around at some

00:48:57.619 --> 00:48:59.559
point. They could buy food from other countries.

00:49:00.340 --> 00:49:01.599
That's probably what they were doing a lot of.

00:49:03.300 --> 00:49:05.139
David's no stranger from running from his enemies,

00:49:05.239 --> 00:49:07.019
right? He's been doing it most of his life. What's

00:49:07.019 --> 00:49:09.840
the problem with this now? What's the problem

00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:11.219
with running three months from your enemies now?

00:49:11.559 --> 00:49:15.829
He's old. Yeah. They don't even let him go to

00:49:15.829 --> 00:49:18.909
war anymore, so he's up there in years now. And

00:49:18.909 --> 00:49:24.489
then the last one is three days pestilence. Pestilence.

00:49:25.670 --> 00:49:33.530
Pestilence is basically disease. Okay? In verse

00:49:33.530 --> 00:49:39.369
14, this is what we get. So the Lord, let me

00:49:39.369 --> 00:49:41.690
go back to 13. And David said to Gad, I am in

00:49:41.690 --> 00:49:44.170
great distress. Please let me fall into the hand

00:49:44.170 --> 00:49:46.559
of the Lord. for his mercies are very great.

00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:49.019
But do not let me fall into the hand of men.

00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:51.139
So in other words, he did not want to deal with

00:49:51.139 --> 00:49:54.440
being chased. He wanted to give himself over

00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:58.179
to whatever God decides, basically. So then it

00:49:58.179 --> 00:50:01.760
says, So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel.

00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:06.340
Seventy thousand men of Israel fell. God sent

00:50:06.340 --> 00:50:09.280
an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. But as he

00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:11.300
was about to destroy it, the Lord saw and was

00:50:11.300 --> 00:50:13.099
sorry over the calamity and said to the destroying

00:50:13.099 --> 00:50:16.449
angel, It is enough. Now relax your hand. And

00:50:16.449 --> 00:50:18.010
the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing

00:50:18.010 --> 00:50:22.190
floor of Ornan, the Jebusite. And David lifted

00:50:22.190 --> 00:50:23.869
up his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing

00:50:23.869 --> 00:50:26.650
between the earth and heaven with his drawn sword

00:50:26.650 --> 00:50:28.610
in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. David

00:50:28.610 --> 00:50:30.789
and the elders covered with sackcloth fell on

00:50:30.789 --> 00:50:34.929
their faces. David said to God, Is it not I who

00:50:34.929 --> 00:50:37.869
commanded to count the people? Indeed, I am the

00:50:37.869 --> 00:50:40.489
one who has sinned and done very wickedly. But

00:50:40.489 --> 00:50:42.789
these sheep, what have they done? O Lord my God,

00:50:42.889 --> 00:50:46.119
please let... thy hand be against me and my father's

00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:48.460
household, but not against thy people, that they

00:50:48.460 --> 00:50:54.280
should be plagued. Okay? And so, we got the three

00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:58.800
choices, and then David chose, it's on the next

00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:01.280
line, next to where it says B14, which of the

00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:05.280
three choices did he choose? Say it again? The

00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:08.619
hands of the Lord. That's what he chose. And

00:51:08.619 --> 00:51:13.460
the result of that was, go to the right, I gave

00:51:13.460 --> 00:51:15.320
you just blanks. What was the result? You want

00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:20.579
to give me a four -word summary? God sent the

00:51:20.579 --> 00:51:22.840
angel, and then God stopped the angel. Both,

00:51:22.980 --> 00:51:26.099
right? So it's kind of sent slash stop. So the

00:51:26.099 --> 00:51:28.760
result was God stopped the angel before it could

00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:31.480
wipe out Israel, and God sent the angel. Both

00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:35.179
of those things are true. Then there was, on

00:51:35.179 --> 00:51:36.559
the next line, I'm moving faster now because

00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:39.239
we're finishing up, a plea. There was a plea,

00:51:39.420 --> 00:51:43.030
not a prayer. It's talking to God, but it doesn't

00:51:43.030 --> 00:51:45.909
say it's a prayer. It's a plea. And notice that

00:51:45.909 --> 00:51:57.829
David saw the angel. Okay. Say again. Yes, it

00:51:57.829 --> 00:51:59.989
would. Especially after the angel already killed

00:51:59.989 --> 00:52:04.730
70 ,000 people. Okay. A plea. Then mercy given.

00:52:05.449 --> 00:52:07.789
That's the next line there. M -G. Mercy given.

00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:11.420
And the thing that we've been headed for, the

00:52:11.420 --> 00:52:13.659
stopping point, we're almost there. In verse

00:52:13.659 --> 00:52:17.340
19, it said, we read it. No, we didn't. Then

00:52:17.340 --> 00:52:19.260
the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to

00:52:19.260 --> 00:52:21.840
David that David should go up and build an altar

00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:24.760
to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the

00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:27.760
Jebusite. So David went up at the word of Gad,

00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:31.599
which he spoke in the name of the Lord. Okay,

00:52:31.699 --> 00:52:37.320
so... Yep, erect an altar. That's the command.

00:52:37.579 --> 00:52:40.670
Erect an altar. An altar is a place of worship

00:52:40.670 --> 00:52:47.789
to God. We're going to erect an altar. Then David

00:52:47.789 --> 00:52:50.349
is going up to build the altar. Ornan turned

00:52:50.349 --> 00:52:52.389
back and saw the angel and his four sons who

00:52:52.389 --> 00:52:54.650
were with him hid themselves and Ornan was threshing

00:52:54.650 --> 00:52:56.909
wheat. And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked

00:52:56.909 --> 00:52:58.550
and saw David and went out from the threshing

00:52:58.550 --> 00:53:00.530
floor and prostrated himself before David with

00:53:00.530 --> 00:53:02.289
his face to the ground. He threw himself flat

00:53:02.289 --> 00:53:04.690
on the ground. David said to Ornan, give me the

00:53:04.690 --> 00:53:06.949
site of this threshing floor that I may build

00:53:06.949 --> 00:53:10.199
on it an altar to the Lord Full price you shall

00:53:10.199 --> 00:53:12.940
give it to me. So he's an eminent domain. He's

00:53:12.940 --> 00:53:14.900
going to give you the full price. That the plague

00:53:14.900 --> 00:53:17.320
may be restrained from the people. Ornan said

00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:20.940
to David, Take it for yourself, and let my lord

00:53:20.940 --> 00:53:23.159
the king do what is good in his sight. See, I

00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:25.239
will give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the

00:53:25.239 --> 00:53:27.519
threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for

00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:30.079
the grain offering. I will give it all. But King

00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:33.440
David said to Ornan, No, but I will surely buy

00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:36.579
it for the full price. For I will not take what

00:53:36.579 --> 00:53:39.760
is yours for the Lord. or offer a burnt offering

00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:43.159
which costs me nothing. So the next one there

00:53:43.159 --> 00:53:47.960
in the bottom left -hand corner, D -R. David,

00:53:48.099 --> 00:53:50.219
what did he do? Ornan offered him everything

00:53:50.219 --> 00:53:54.860
for free, and he refused. David refuses. There's

00:53:54.860 --> 00:54:00.860
the price. Say again. But he paid. Yes. He requisitioned

00:54:00.860 --> 00:54:03.119
it, but he paid for it. And the price was 50

00:54:03.119 --> 00:54:08.639
shekels. And then you finish it with David. Builds

00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:11.840
an altar. That's right. Okay. Now, real quick,

00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:13.639
if you haven't already looked, put your thumb

00:54:13.639 --> 00:54:15.460
over the bottom right -hand corner of your page

00:54:15.460 --> 00:54:18.500
where there's that writing there. If you just

00:54:18.500 --> 00:54:19.739
looked at it when I said put your thumb over

00:54:19.739 --> 00:54:23.099
it, don't answer. What eventually gets built

00:54:23.099 --> 00:54:25.639
on the site of Ornan's threshing floor where

00:54:25.639 --> 00:54:27.679
David builds the altar? If you looked, don't

00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:30.340
answer. Somebody take a stab at it if you didn't

00:54:30.340 --> 00:54:32.800
look. Anybody not look? Statularity. It's not

00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:39.969
statularity. What? Yeah, the temple. It's where

00:54:39.969 --> 00:54:42.530
the temple gets built. David bought that ground,

00:54:42.730 --> 00:54:44.710
and he takes that ground, and he dedicates it.

00:54:44.789 --> 00:54:46.690
You can see it. You know where it's at today.

00:54:47.090 --> 00:54:48.889
It's on the map. The temple's not there anymore.

00:54:49.070 --> 00:54:53.170
It was torn down in AD 70, and never rebuilt

00:54:53.170 --> 00:54:56.929
in the same way ever again. But that's where

00:54:56.929 --> 00:55:02.559
the temple site would be. Yes, the one that Solomon

00:55:02.559 --> 00:55:05.159
will build. And so this point forward, David

00:55:05.159 --> 00:55:08.840
will live his life for a couple of initiatives,

00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:12.599
one of which will be to gather the supplies so

00:55:12.599 --> 00:55:14.920
that Solomon can build that temple to honor God.

00:55:15.219 --> 00:55:19.380
Where? On the threshing floor of Ornan, where

00:55:19.380 --> 00:55:24.539
he was told to sacrifice. Why? In honor of God

00:55:24.539 --> 00:55:26.860
turning back the angel who was destroying Israel

00:55:26.860 --> 00:55:29.360
and had already killed 70 ,000 men. And why was

00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:32.400
he doing that? Why was the angel destroying Israel?

00:55:33.139 --> 00:55:38.760
Because, yeah, because David chose the hand of

00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:44.360
God. And he had to choose from one of the three

00:55:44.360 --> 00:55:48.119
things because he registered the people. And

00:55:48.119 --> 00:55:50.860
he registered the people for one of two reasons,

00:55:50.940 --> 00:55:53.760
both of which are bad. One is Satan inspired

00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:56.900
it. We read that in 1 Chronicles. Satan inspired

00:55:56.900 --> 00:56:01.679
it. And the other is because Because he was king.

00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:06.619
It is good to be the king. Right? Because he

00:56:06.619 --> 00:56:08.840
could. Outside the will of God, he did it in

00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:11.519
his own strength or he did it to know what he

00:56:11.519 --> 00:56:14.679
had to work with or whatever. Okay. All right.

00:56:14.699 --> 00:56:16.760
So a couple of teenagers only for a minute here

00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:19.380
to answer a couple questions. You ready? Not

00:56:19.380 --> 00:56:24.820
necessarily on the page. Okay. I'm going to give

00:56:24.820 --> 00:56:28.860
you a tricky one first. Tricky one first. Whose

00:56:28.860 --> 00:56:35.449
idea Was it originally to register the people?

00:56:36.409 --> 00:56:46.150
Jason. Incorrect. It was not the king in this

00:56:46.150 --> 00:56:49.170
case. Whose idea was it originally? You already

00:56:49.170 --> 00:56:51.769
answered. Let somebody else try. Otherwise, you

00:56:51.769 --> 00:56:53.010
just go through a list and you'll get it right

00:56:53.010 --> 00:56:58.050
eventually. Whose idea was it originally? Going

00:56:58.050 --> 00:57:02.079
once? Okay, any adult can answer. Satan. That's

00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:04.659
correct. It was Satan's idea. It says Satan rose

00:57:04.659 --> 00:57:13.480
up against Israel and inspired David to do it.

00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:19.099
Not on the page. David had this person head up

00:57:19.099 --> 00:57:22.880
the effort to register all the people. Jason?

00:57:23.360 --> 00:57:28.230
Joab is correct. One out of two ain't bad. Okay.

00:57:29.849 --> 00:57:33.150
I'll give you candy before we're done. Alright.

00:57:35.309 --> 00:57:41.889
Let's see. The Gibeonites were in great suffering

00:57:41.889 --> 00:57:44.969
because of an event that happened before David

00:57:44.969 --> 00:57:49.250
was in charge. What was this event? Anybody else?

00:57:49.269 --> 00:57:50.710
Other than Jason, I'm going to give it to him.

00:57:53.789 --> 00:57:57.269
What? It's all being a but? Okay, Jason, give

00:57:57.269 --> 00:58:05.769
it to me. Yes, he tried to kill them off. I'm

00:58:05.769 --> 00:58:12.909
short. All right. Natalie, what was the length

00:58:12.909 --> 00:58:21.190
of the famine? Say it again. Not the one that

00:58:21.190 --> 00:58:23.269
was potentially promised, the one that was potentially...

00:58:23.679 --> 00:58:25.519
could have happened, that David could have chose

00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:27.400
was seven years, but the one that actually happened

00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:30.260
before that. Three years is correct. Very good.

00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:35.619
That is correct. Got them both there. Amazing.

00:58:35.940 --> 00:58:42.980
Okay. All right. Haley, what was the number of

00:58:42.980 --> 00:58:45.960
sons of Goliath who were slain by David and his

00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:49.960
friends? That's correct. Four. Very good. You

00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:55.250
guys could be on Jeopardy. They're not even looking.

00:58:55.349 --> 00:59:02.150
They're doing it from memory. Okay. Okay, this

00:59:02.150 --> 00:59:06.289
is on your page. It's a harder one. What was

00:59:06.289 --> 00:59:10.710
the name of the town that threw Sheba's head

00:59:10.710 --> 00:59:14.010
over the wall? If you can get close to the pronunciation,

00:59:14.090 --> 00:59:24.489
I'll give it to you. Hannah, you got it? No?

00:59:27.889 --> 00:59:29.909
Need a magnifying glass? All right, Haley, go.

00:59:31.289 --> 00:59:37.449
Yep. Yep. Yes. Good enough. That's right. And

00:59:37.449 --> 00:59:39.349
it's about how well I pronounce it, so you did

00:59:39.349 --> 00:59:48.519
good. Okay. All right. For this reason... God

00:59:48.519 --> 00:59:53.300
brought David into a broad place because he delighted

00:59:53.300 --> 00:59:55.639
in him. That's correct. I'm going to start giving

00:59:55.639 --> 00:59:57.340
candy to other people. I use this candy up anyway.

00:59:57.739 --> 01:00:06.880
Okay. Of the three choices that David could have

01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:09.420
chosen for punishment, which one would have been

01:00:09.420 --> 01:00:17.250
the shortest? Jason? Say it again. Three days

01:00:17.250 --> 01:00:19.989
of pestilence. Which coincidentally was the one

01:00:19.989 --> 01:00:22.969
that he chose, but it cost him 70 ,000 people.

01:00:23.489 --> 01:00:25.809
We kind of understand that, don't we, with COVID.

01:00:26.710 --> 01:00:38.969
We see how that could be. Okay. All right, Hannah,

01:00:39.030 --> 01:00:43.250
are you ready? How many of Saul's sons were given

01:00:43.250 --> 01:00:51.630
over to the Gibeonites? Say it again. Seven is

01:00:51.630 --> 01:01:04.570
correct. Very good. Okay. That was very well

01:01:04.570 --> 01:01:06.590
aimed. You could have caught it. Okay, I have

01:01:06.590 --> 01:01:08.610
a tiny poppet. The next question is for a tiny

01:01:08.610 --> 01:01:12.469
poppet. Adults can answer, so be on your game.

01:01:12.550 --> 01:01:21.239
Be ready. Okay. Find my spot here. Okay. In what

01:01:21.239 --> 01:01:25.699
might be the strangest description of a Gittite

01:01:25.699 --> 01:01:30.199
ever, a man had this many fingers and toes, first

01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:33.960
hand I saw. He had this many fingers and toes

01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:38.300
in his first hand. How many fingers and toes

01:01:38.300 --> 01:01:46.190
did he have? 24, correct. Nice try. Have a tiny

01:01:46.190 --> 01:02:02.750
slinky. This was Amasa's last mission. Chris

01:02:02.750 --> 01:02:08.630
McCrory. Say it again. Sorry, that was terrible.

01:02:09.469 --> 01:02:12.630
Okay. I got a bag of gummies. This is the last

01:02:12.630 --> 01:02:15.199
bag of gummies I've got. Get rid of these gummies.

01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:33.239
All right. Okay. So when the mother of some of

01:02:33.239 --> 01:02:38.219
Saul's sons was mourning, David dealt justice

01:02:38.219 --> 01:02:49.019
by honoring these two individuals. Jason. Okay.

01:02:49.019 --> 01:02:50.699
All right. We're going to go ahead and close

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in prayer at this time. Lord, I thank you for

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this day. You know, we gather here and have a

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building that we're safe from bad weather or

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conditions outdoors, stress, persecution. You

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know, I can't deal with any of that as it is

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today. And if we did, Lord, we'd be grateful

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and happy to be here praising you and learning

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about you together regardless.