Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 17 days 17 hours 33 minutes
TALK ABOUT ingratitude: David’s son Absalom, who’d fled to his grandfather’s kingdom of Geshur, returned to Jerusalem after a two-year exile and apparently began scheming to remove David from the throne as soon as he came home.
THE PSALMS this week follow our chronological reading order, meaning they were written by David after he was confronted by the prophet Nathan for conspiring to kill Uriah the Hittite so that David could take his wife, Bathsheba.
DAVID’S PLOY to take the wife of Uriah the Hittite is another story that shows that the Bible has not been cleaned up to make the humans used by God look more, well, saintly.
THE TONE of this week’s psalms seems odd given the military victories of David that we studied last week.
DAVID’S KINGDOM faced a strong test from his neighbors to the east and north as a coalition of Ammonites and Arameans tried to take down the new Israelite kingdom.
DAVID’S KINGDOM expanded outward in all directions, possibly reaching as far as the Euphrates in northern Syria.
A SUPERNATURAL worldview was perfectly natural to King David. It’s clear from his psalms that he had a better understanding of the unseen realm.
DAVID WAS not a perfect man by any measure, but if we draw anything from this week’s study it should be his example of humility when he realized that he’d become a little too full of himself.
DAVID KNEW that God had a divine council comprised of supernatural beings. We see more confirmation of that in this week’s study.
THERE IS MORE spiritual warfare in the psalms than we realize!