in 1 & 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 24: David’s Census
INTRODUCTION: Different sins afflict different people at different times. In our youth we are tempted by everything that is new, by the lusts of the flesh and the world of experience on offer. When we...
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2 Samuel 23:8-39: David’s Mighty Men
INTRODUCTION: David is the great king that God appointed to establish Israel in the land and subdue the enemies of God’s people. But the scriptures are written in such a way that we could never...
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2 Samuel 23:1-7: David’s Last Words
INTRODUCTION: In death all our masks are stripped away. Any appearances of power are taken away as we impotently die; all apparent beauty disappears in rot; our deathbed tends to bring out of our hearts...
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2 Samuel 22: The Deliverance and Exaltation of the King
INTRODUCTION: Imagine for a moment that you are in your old age, in the closing years of your life and you decide to write a song to summarise the Lord’s working in your life. What...
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2 Samuel 21:15-22: Nephilim, Rephaim, Anakites and the Seed of the Woman
INTRODUCTION: As soon as you do any investigation on the internet about the bible and giants, you immediately run into the cliqued garbage about overcoming your giants. In the text we have before us in...
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2 Samuel 21:1-14: God’s judgement on sin
INTRODUCTION: Welcome to what I consider to be the hardest portion in 1 and 2 Samuel to interpret. What might have been a fairly straight forward chapter in ancient times is to us a glaring...
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2 Samuel 20: Worldliness in the kingdom
INTRODUCTION: This chapter has no mention of God but only one incidental references to Abel being the heritage of the Lord in v19. That captures well the tone of our chapter today. It is a...
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2 Samuel 19: 9-43 The King’s Gracious Return
INTRODUCTION: In Christianity there are two types of happily ever afters. There is the final happy ending where Jesus will return and all enemies will be put under foot. All evils will become undone and...
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2 Samuel 18:1-19:8: Judgement on Absalom
Introduction: Love made a god becomes a demon. This is a paraphrase of a point C S Lewis makes in his book The Four Loves. When we love something too much, when we make a...
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2 Samuel 16:15-17:29: The Fall of Ahithophel
Introduction: God fulfils His promises; or God works all things together for good, these are phrases we often hear but don’t always have an accurate picture about how God works it all out. The fall...