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[00:00:37] Speaker B: We're just going to continue on with the life of David. Thus far we've worked through the entire Book of First Samuel in five classes, so I'm feeling pretty good about that thus far.
First Samuel is one part of two books, first and Second Samuel. That originally was just one book altogether.
First Samuel is all about a guy named Samuel, followed by a guy named Saul and then a guy named David. The guy named Samuel is dead at this point that we are at. The guy named Saul really had a quick rise and then a really bad fall towards the end. At the end of Book of First Samuel, Samuel. I mean, Saul is dead. He has been killed at that point.
And then you have David. But the last five chapters of First Samuel get really, really interesting because David is this guy who's been on this rise this entire time through the book. It's been a comparison of him against Saul. And then all of a sudden, starting in 1st Samuel 26, 1st Samuel 27, David's life starts going a little bit like this, and it's all based upon how he interacts with the people that he's around. David will run into Saul and he'll spare Saul's life. And all of a sudden David is this man who's trusting God. But then the very next chapter he wants to take into take a life into his own hands and kill Nabal. And his life keeps going up and down and up and down these last few chapters. And if you're a reader of the Book of Samuel, what you are beginning to think is, oh man, we just saw Saul become king on this rise and he went so far downhill. Is this what's going to happen to David? And what begins to echo in your mind a little bit is Deuteronomy 17 and Deuteronomy 17.
In the Pentateuch, Moses writes These commands for what is to occur when Israel one day desires a king. And some of those commands involve not taking too much gold or property from other nations, not taking too many wives, not taking too many concubines. And all of a sudden at the end of first Samuel, beginning of second Samuel, you see David doing a little bit of that.
And it's just kind of this moment like, man, is this guy going to be another tragedy? Is this David going to become another Saul? And then we are arriving exactly where we are in this class. So I was going to rely on my PowerPoints for this. But sometimes better than a PowerPoint is just a good old fashioned Bible. So if everybody could turn to second Samuel Chapter two and we're going to be in second Samuel two together tonight.
I do want to reference something that I have not brought up thus far in the class.
So First Samuel, First Samuel sort of stands alone in the Old Testament. There's not many other books in the Old Testament that are occurring at the same time that the events in First Samuel are occurring.
However, many books in the Old Testament are crossing paths. They're occurring at the exact same time. And what's really, really interesting is while First Samuel, the first half of the original entire book of Samuel is this whole story of Samuel, Saul, David, that's kind of fresh and new.
Second Samuel is almost repeated in every account in the book of first Chronicles.
So once David becomes king, you can at the same time as turn to second Samuel chapter two, you could flip over to first Chronicles, turn to chapter like 10 or 11. And many of the stories are exactly the same. You might get a little bit more information in one. It's almost like reading the Gospel accounts. Well, you'll see all this information that does correlate between the two, but at the same time you'll see multiple instances where, oh, this is giving me a fresh thing here. This is giving me a fresh thing there.
I have a beautiful PowerPoint that shows all of these intricacies. But we're not going to be able to do that today. Here's what I want to do real quickly for everyone. We're going to be working through second Samuel two through eight in this class. We might get into chapter nine.
But I want to start by just saying, like, I want to have a little bit more group discussion later on. So the first few chapters of this we're going to take, we're going to go a little bit more quickly through. So you have second Samuel chapter two to start and David is anointed king. Now Has David already been anointed king at this point?
Yes. Samuel has poured the oil on him. He said that God is anointing you as his chosen king. You're the man after God's own heart. However, in 2nd Samuel 2, Saul has died. A new king must be chosen, and this situation arises. Where are the people of Israel at large going to choose David?
Or are they going to choose Saul's successor, someone in his own family? And Judah, the tribe that David is from. The tribe that going all the way back to the days of Joseph talking to his father Jacob about the prophecies to come in the future. The tribe of Judah was the tribe of who?
Kings that were to come. Interestingly enough, was Saul from the tribe of Judah?
No. Saul had been from the tribe of Benjamin. So hundreds of years prior to this, even when God had professed the kings that would come in Israel's history, Saul didn't fit that picture. Why? Well, it's because the people chose Saul while God chose David. So you have David in Second Samuel, chapter two, being anointed. But interestingly enough, the nation is split at this point.
Only Judah, only Judah, and Judah alone anoints David. And this sets up an interesting, difficult situation. If you've never seen the nation of Israel, just imagine like, something like this. And in that picture, you can draw a line about halfway through, and the entire lower section is actually Judah.
So Judah is a large section. It was probably the biggest group in Israel in this day and time. But that entire lower section chooses David. The entire upper section goes a different way.
You see, the guy who had been the co. Ruler. Ruler of the army alongside of Saul had been a guy named Abner.
And Abner, the text tells us, decides to choose. This is interesting because he may have chosen himself, but he decides to choose Saul's successor as one of his sons, a guy named Ish Bosheth.
Now, that is a long, very difficult word to remember and to pronounce. And I may have not done it right right there. But if you've not heard this before, I want to set this up. Now. The text oftentimes makes names matter a lot.
So the name of Ish Bosheth means man of shame.
Man of shame. Interestingly enough, once we get to 2 Samuel chapter 9, a few chapters from now, there's another really difficult name that's in scripture that sounds very similar.
Mephibosheth.
Ish Bosheth. Mephibosheth. The root of each name is exactly the same, and the root is Shem.
Ish. Bosheth means man. Ish means man. In Hebrew, Ish Bosheth means man of shame. Mephibosheth means destroyer of shame.
So as you start thinking about that, if you know the story of Mephibosheth later on, like this guy's supposed to be in comparison to Ish Bosheth, it's a very specific thing that I think God ordained because these were these guys names. So being known as the man of shame, a, that's just super sad. And Saul naming his son, that is pretty pitiful. This guy was obviously not set up from sick, from success from the very beginning. And we can see that what happens in second Samuel chapter two is Abner and Joab, the leader of David's army, the leader of David's men, get together and this weird scene occurs where they say, let's choose 12 men to fight one another.
And it's almost set up like this is supposed to be a wrestling scene or something like that. But what ends up occurring is it says that all of these men come towards one another to wrestle and instead grab one another by the hair. And each man plunges a knife into the other person.
And all of a sudden this war ensues.
And as this war ensues, in 2nd Samuel chapter 2, this guy named, I think his name is Asahel, I might need to go back to the text. But this guy decides to pursue the Abner. He pursues the guy who was on Saul's side who has set Ish Bosheth in charge. He pursues Abner. Abner's fleeing, he's running back into his own land. He's saying, get away from me, get away from me. Leave, leave. This guy doesn't stop pursuing him. Finally comes upon Abner and Abner stabs him.
The man dies and Abner goes along his way.
Getting into Second Samuel chapter three and four, just trying to fast pace all of this.
You have a lot of wild scenes occurring. Ish Bosheth, the man of shame, we have no idea why he says this. We have no idea exactly if he was lying or not. Abner claims he was lying. We don't know exactly what the story is, but Ish Bosheth for some reason comes up to Abner, the man who had anointed him, the man who had put him over everything. And he said, you, Abner, and the exact phrase of the text is, have gone into my father's concubine.
You've slept with some woman who belonged to my father.
Now, what may have been happening here? Well, a Lot of commentators and people who are spectating this scene and just like guessing on things will try to say here. And that I probably agree with is Ish Bosheth knew that Abner had anointed him. So he wanted to figure out some way of, like, lying to make Abner a little bit lower than him.
But what Abner does instead is Abner looks at Ish Bosheth and he says, hey, man, listen, I'm done with you.
I'm done. I'm going over to the other side. I know alongside your father, I had been pursuing David for all of these years. But right now, here and now, I'm joining him. I can't have you talk to me in that way. So Abner goes to David and. And David, very interestingly enough, forgives him. And he essentially says, come over to my side. And then in Second Samuel, chapter four, this is wild, but in Second Samuel four, Abner joins David's side. He goes on his way to get his men to collect all his men together. And as he's going to collect his men, Joab, David's first in charge, hears that Abner has come over. You know what Joab says? Joab says, that man Abner is the guy who's killed my brother. Do you remember when Abner was being pursued by his brother? He's killed my brother. I can't let this stand.
So Joab calls Abner aside alongside the city gate. He takes Abner in an embrace, but stabs him in the midst of that.
After this occurs in the text, David hears about it and he weeps. And very interestingly enough, we'll see this later on in 2 Samuel, there's sometimes when David weeps for a godly reason, and then he decides to take a godly action, which sometimes means calling someone to justice.
In the case of David's sons. Later on, you may be thinking about Absalom or some others who struggled, who did some wrongs. And instead of David correcting them or figuring out a thing, he basically just cried about it. The text tells us that here David just cries about it. He doesn't do anything to Joab. We have to remember that, because Joab will begin to appear more and more in the story of 2 Samuel. And it's more and more in a bad, distasteful sense.
So Joab is forced alongside David to weep for this man that he has killed for Abner. And then the very next text is wild.
Ish Bosheth, it says, is fearing David's people. He's scared Because Abner has been killed. He's laying in his house, and all of a sudden two men who had been on Ish Bosheth's side betray him, walk into his house, kill him, behead him, and they bring his head, Ish Bosheth's head, the man of shame's head, to David. And David says, like, one of the most hardcore lines that I could like, this would just send shivers down my spine if I was in this throne room.
But he essentially says, do you remember what I did to the man who just told me that Saul had died?
In Second Samuel one, a man comes to David telling him that he had helped Saul in his suicide by killing him, and he hoped to gain glory from it. And David immediately put the man to death.
So out of nowhere, a man who has come into Ish Bosheth's house unassumed, cut off his head, brought it to David and said, what kind of glory will I get? King is told, do you remember what I did to the man who just told me about what he did?
What should I do to you now that you're bringing me ahead?
And this really gruesome scene appears we can get into in a separate text at some other point exactly why David would have done this. But he cuts off the hand and the feet and the head of these men and he hangs them over a pool on the outside of Hebron. It's this really gruesome picture.
We can talk more about what that means, whether it's in the group, me, or separately, at a different point. But the core idea behind it is actually comparing David's response to these men to David's response to Joab.
You see, going back to the very beginning, this is actually part of David's up and down.
Not having a just moment with Joab was a downtrodden moment in David's life.
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Slaying the men, bringing justice to a situation where Ish Bosheth has died is actually a high moment. So as you begin 2 Samuel this up and down with David is continuing. And then you get to Second Samuel five. So now let's take our Bibles.
I don't know if you're following along with me or not, but take our Bibles, turn to 2nd Samuel 5 and we'll read.
Here's what I'll do once we get to Second Samuel six, we'll read word for word.
Second Samuel five. I want to describe a few things that happen. We're going to name them parts A, B, C and D. And you guys are Going to tell me, like, which part doesn't belong? Okay, so part A, second Samuel, chapter 5, first few verses.
David and the text multiple times mentions that he does this with God's help because he is a man of God.
David is anointed not only King of Judah after Ish Bosheth dies, but he is now accepted as king of all of Israel. The entire northern half of this nation now accepts David. He's working alongside of God. God is with him. He's bringing him some power, bringing him some glory. And out of nowhere, he is now the king of everyone.
Immediately following this, God helps David again. And in this situation, God helps David by taking the Jebusites city. The Jebusites. Jebu actually relates to Jeru and then Salem. Interestingly enough, if you've never heard about Salem before, the first time that that word is brought up is in the story of Melchizedek and in the Old Testament, Melchizedek with the king of Salem.
And that is the first time ultimately that Jerusalem is ever mentioned.
Now the Jebusites own this city and it has these walls, if you've heard as the mountains surround Jerusalem.
If you've heard about Jerusalem basically essentially being on a mountain while surrounded by mountains with these gates around it.
The Jebusites were so confident in this city not being able to be taken by David that they look at David and they laugh and they said, you can try to attack us, but we literally don't even need guards. Our lame and our sick people can protect us. We're good David. However, with God's help, the text makes very, very clear, takes the city of Jerusalem and establishes it as the city of David, the new capital of the nation of Israel at large.
So that's part B, Part C tells us, and David took many wives and concubines.
He wanted to continue on with his power. So do you also remember Deuteronomy chapter 17? What kings were not supposed to do? Take a bunch of wives and concubines. So that's part C and then part D. The very, very end of 2 Samuel chapter 5.
David Routes the Philistines. After routing the Philistines, he names the area where he routed them BAAL Perazim. This is an interesting phrase that will be used in the next chapter as well. But al Perazzim means so you guys have heard of BAAL before. It can be so that's how Hebrews say it. We just say baal. So BAAL Perazim, baal, a lot of people just think is like an Idol or a God that other people worshiped. It can also kind of be used as a phrase that just means, like, God in general. And in certain portions of the text, the Hebrew people actually take the word BAAL and they utilize it as describing their God.
So Elohim, God, Yahweh, God Elohim and BAAL mean the word G O D, just God.
Yahweh is God's name. Interestingly enough, if you guys haven't thought about this before, we call him God, but, like, that's not his name. Names don't change in translation. His name is Yahweh at any point. So if you haven't thought about that. So that's kind of how this all applies. So BAAL Perazim means the God of breakthroughs.
And that is just like such an epic name for me, because this is what not only David has named this area, but this is what David is saying God does who God is. He's a God of breakthroughs. He's a God who literally sees a wall in front of him and is willing and able to break through. Now, depending on which side of the wall that you're on, that could be a good thing or a bad thing, right?
So David names it BAAL Perazim, here to show that God has broken through the Philistines. It's like David is standing behind God. God breaks through the wall. Praise the God of breakthroughs.
And then that's the end of 2 Samuel 5. All right, so A, B, C or D, which one does not belong in this section? So A, going back to it. A, God helps David and he's anointed as king of Israel.
B, God helps David and he takes Jerusalem.
C, David decides to take a bunch of wives and concubines to build his own power. Or D, God helps David defeat the Philistines. Which one doesn't belong?
See? Very, very good.
But I want to make it clear that these are all happening within the text so that we can continue to see in the life of David, his life going like this, in the midst of mass moments of positivity, in the midst of David destroying the Philistines, taking Jerusalem in the midst of him doing all of these powerful, amazing things through God, he's also deciding to attempt to take the power in his own hands, do things himself in order to unite people to his own power and not God's power.
As you're reading this text, especially if you're Hebrew, it's inspiring that David's taking Jerusalem, that he's destroying the Philistines that he's bringing his people to justice.
But it brings you down just as much. You have this sour pit in your stomach thinking to yourself, but is this guy going to turn out like Saul?
He keeps doing these things that just aren't exactly what we would expect someone to do. All right, so now we're going to read 2 Samuel. Let me make sure we're pretty good on time. We're going to read 2 Samuel 6 all together, because the story of Uzzah and the Ark is one that I've had a lot of people and teens talk about in the past. It's a situation I want to go over at large with everyone. So second Samuel, chapter six. Reading together, David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, 30,000.
And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from baal, Judah, to bring up from there the Ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord of Hosts, who sits enthroned on the cherubim.
And they carried the Ark of God on a new cart and brought it to the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill.
And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart with the Ark of God. And Ahio went before the ark.
I want to just make clear from the very beginning, if the Bible ever provides random details, those random details are probably there for a reason that's very, very specific in most texts. If they're just trying to say that the ark was brought from one place to another, they would say, and the ark was brought from here to here.
Notice that there are details added in this text, specifically the idea that the ark was put on a cart, and there was a man who put his sons on the cart to drive the cart from one location to another.
And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.
And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacan, Uzzah put out his hand to the Ark of God, and he took hold of it. For the oxen stumbled and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah. And God struck him down there because of his error. And he died there beside the Ark of God.
And David was angry because the Lord had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez Uzzah. So going back to BAAL Perazim, God of breakthroughs, all of a sudden God is breaking Through Uzzah is the name of this place, Perez Uzzah to this day. And David was afraid of the Lord that day. And he said, how can the Ark of the Lord come to me?
So David was not willing to take the Ark of the Lord into the city of David.
David took it aside to the house of Obed Edom, the Giddite. So if you're Obed Edom, it's like, yay, David's scared of this. I guess this can come into my house.
And the Ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed Edom, the Giddite three months.
And the Lord blessed Obed Edom and all his household. And it was told, king David, the Lord has blessed the household of Obed Edom and all that belongs to him because of the Ark of God. So David went and brought up the Ark of God from the house of Obed Edom to the city of David with rejoicing. And when those who bore the Ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal. And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod. And David and all the house of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn.
We're going to keep going.
As the Ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michael, the daughter of Saul. Alright, so each time that I say the word Michael here, just make reference her descriptor, because she is the wife of David. She is the wife that loved David. She is the wife that David desired all of his life. So let's listen to how Michael is described each time here.
The Zark of the Lord came in the city of David. Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked out the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord. And she despised him in her heart. And they brought the Ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent could possibly be the tabernacle that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts. And he distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, a cake of raisins, each one. Then all the people departed, each to his own house.
And David returned to bless his household.
But Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David and said how the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself before the eyes of his servants, female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself. And David said to Michael, it was before the Lord who chose me above your father, who and above all his house to appoint me as prince over Israel. The people of the Lord. And I will celebrate before the Lord. I will make myself yet more contemptible than this. And I will be abased in your eyes by the female servants of whom you have spoken. By them I shall be held in honor. And Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child until the day of her death.
Alright, so a lot happens in this story.
We're going to go all the way back to the beginning.
Uzzah sees the ark rumbling about. Oxen, stumbles, puts back his hand to protect the Ark of God.
And the God of breakthroughs breaks through Uzzah and kills him.
What is the initial feeling when God strikes Uzzah dead from the reader.
Is that fair?
I mean, we have to say it's fair because it's God. But is it fair?
Why did God strike down Uzzah? Is that a just situation? Those are the instructions. Yeah. Okay. And the fact that it was even on a card is surprising to begin with because that's not how it was supposed to be carried. Exactly. That's. That's a perfect answer. So in First Chronicles.
All right, this is.
Let me make sure I'm right in this. In First Chronicles, we're going to go. I'm going to guess off the top of my head. We're going to try chapter 12 maybe. Oh, no, chapter 13. Okay.
First Chronicles, chapter. No, not chapter 13. That's where the ark is brought. But later on, chapter 15. Here we go.
Verse four. And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and. And the Levites, the son of Koath, Uriel and his chief. 120 of his brothers, sons of Merari, gathered together all these people.
They were Levites.
And he said to them, verse 12. You are the heads of the fathers of the houses of the Levites. Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the Ark of God, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.
Because you did not carry it the first time.
The Lord our God broke out against. Does it say against Uzzah, against us.
The Lord broke out against us because we did not seek him according to the rule.
Now I want to.
I had a lunch meeting with elders this week.
I talked to my dad about it. I talked to a couple other people about It I've been conflicted in how to say this, so I want to be super clear about a variety of different things off the very front. Number one, if you have questions, I normally say, don't come to me. If you have questions, come to me after this.
Because I am not going to be working towards something called moral relativism. But we are going to talk about some real quick.
Most sermons that I've heard within the church have talked about the story of Uzzah, and they have ended in this chapter where we are up to this point that I'm talking to you guys about.
We have ended with. All right, so obviously they did not carry it in the prescribed way, because they did not carry in the prescribed way. The idea behind this is it's not just how they were carrying it, but their hearts in this situation were probably, let's figure out a way to make God work for us. Let's just get the ark to Jerusalem really, really quickly. Let's make sure it's there in the midst of all of this. The idea is they were probably not considering God first and foremost. They were probably just considering themselves, their wants, their needs.
So because they didn't do this by their perspective, prescribed method, carrying the ark in the right way. But more importantly than that, thinking about God in the right way, God didn't simply strike us dead. God was breaking out against his people.
And he was saying, remember, even in your high of highs, when you have this great new king, when you've taken over Jerusalem, when you've done all of this, you have to remember me first.
But here's the very interesting thing.
You know what happens immediately after the story of Uzzah, immediately after this. And I've been breaking this down and I have a lot more studying to do on this because I'm conflicted as well in my own thoughts. Immediately after the story of Uzzah and this situation where God breaks out against his people because they've not done something in the prescribed way, we have David from the tribe of Judah dancing in an ephod.
Based on what we know of the text in the Old Testament, there's nowhere that says nobody other than a Levite can wear an ephod. But all that we have from the first five books of the Bible talking about ephods says levites wear ephods.
You know what David does immediately after that? He sets up a tent. This tent is more than likely the tabernacle. You know what he does at the tabernacle?
Well, this is debated. I'm still studying this a little bit. But the exact words of the text are, and David offered the burnt offering at the tabernacle.
Who was supposed to offer the burnt offering?
Levites.
All right, so there's some people that argue that the words David doing that could have actually meant that, like, David was telling the priest to do that. But all that we have in the text is David offered the burnt offering immediately after that, David then blesses the entire people, which once again, was normally a thing left to Levites.
So what are we supposed to make of this? Going back to what I said at the very beginning, I'm not arguing for moral relativism, which is essentially saying, like, God is going to whimsically say, some things are okay, some things are not, yada, yada, yada, it doesn't really matter to follow his prescribed laws, because God makes very clear in the story of Uzzah that the idea is you have to follow his prescribed laws. But I want to just mention one thing. The prescribed laws are not simply so that you follow the prescribed laws. What the text makes clear as the prescribed law is so that you are primarily first and foremost, above everything, thinking God first in every situation that you run into.
So I'll compare this to a couple situations you guys might be thinking about. We'll talk about the way that you dress in church.
Honestly, as long as it's modest, and as long as it's not a way that the Bible says, like, you're showing off or whatever else, the core component of how you dress in church is just think about God first.
Now, some of you in here might think, okay, if I think about God first, the way that I dress in church means I need to respect him like a boss or something like that. I need to honor who he is. That's the way I grew up, so I need to dress up. Others of you in this room might think in different ways.
The monks from 1100, from 800 to 1100 AD, the primary way that they dressed in worship, essentially people who were not Catholic at that point in time, is they would show up in sackcloth every single Sunday because they didn't want to look greater in the eyes of God than they truly were.
Can you look at them and say, like, oh, that's sinful?
No. The idea is, first and foremost in any situation, think of God first. Take that to any prescription that we have, whether it's worshiping without instruments, whether it's the way that we have men speak in worship, or anything else. Yes, all those things matter. But they don't matter simply for the fact of doing these specific things.
They matter because the idea is, think of God first.
God doesn't care if we worship without instruments. If you're not worshiping with a heart for him in the midst of the service.
In fact, I would argue that oftentimes in the text, we will find out very quickly that that is a much bigger deal to God worshiping with a true heart.
Primarily in the midst of all of this, we have to consider that from the story of Uzzah and with everything that comes afterwards, then you have First Samuel, chapter seven. I know, the bell just rang. Just want to bring about it really quickly.
1st Samuel 7 is a beautiful, beautiful chapter. It's God's covenant with David. Immediately following this, I had this cool slide. I'll share the slides with you guys afterwards. Please look at them this week because I put effort into them. But in this slide, there's David speaking here. And it's David saying, going to build a house for you, God.
And then it's this huge text block of everything that God says back to David. You know what that huge text block says?
It has a bunch of sentences where God's saying, hey, David, I'm going to provide you with this. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. I'm going to bless you in this way. I'm going to curse these people in this way. And the reason that it all starts with I, I, I is because God wants David to realize, like, that's cute that you think you're going to build me a house, but I'm not a God like all these fake gods that you see in the nations around you. I want you to realize something, David. It's not, it doesn't matter at all what you do for me necessarily. What matters is what I'm doing for you.
And I'm going to work in you and I'm going to glorify you. And ultimately he ends with a prophecy that all leads all the way up to Christ. I'm going to make your house, this house of kings, last forever. And ultimately there's going to be someone who comes from you that fulfills all of this. David, this is such a cool line, but God actually says to David in this, yeah, you might think that you're going to build me a house.
I'm going to build your nation a house.
I want you to realize that I'm the one building you a house in the midst of this.
Just such a cool line from God in the midst of all of that, please read it and look at my PowerPoints. All right. And then chapter eight has this huge section.
The second bell isn't rung yet. Alright, I got two minutes.
Second Samuel, chapter eight.
Say it real quickly. Is essentially David taking over all these various nations and stuff. I've been to a lot of cool places. Israel and Egypt are two of the most recent ones. I've done some cool, like, archaeological type things. A big question that's out there is, is David even real?
Because interestingly enough, we don't have a lot of archaeological evidence from this day and time. However, we found two very important things. They're on my PowerPoint. You should look at them. One is the Stele of Tel Dan. This is an item that has been dated basically about 60 or 70 years after the time of David that calls out the house of David leading this area. Really, really cool. Also in Egypt, there's a place, Shoshenq, the first inscription on the Karnak temple. And Shoshenq, I says, he goes into all these nations and he conquers them. And he conquers them. He conquers them. And it seems to be that he mentions this guy named Dawit.
Dawid.
Dawid in Hebrew is David in the end. And that actually dates to 40 years after when David would have been king. And that is about as early as we have anywhere in modern history. Found stuff dated to that day and time and they all reference David right after he seems to have been king.
That's. Class, please look at my PowerPoint. Y' all can leave.
