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April 8 - 2 Samuel 4 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it is shown here. Welcome to A chapter, a day
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  Bible reading podcast where we are going to read a chapter of
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  God's Word today. Thank you for inviting me into
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  the rhythm of your day so that we can read a chapter of God's
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  Word together. Now this might be the first time
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  you've joined us, in which case welcome friend.
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  Great to have your company. You might be one of those people
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  that life is busy and you sometimes find a chance in the
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  day to sneak a chapter in. In which case, we're so glad you
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  found time today. Welcome.
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  Or you might be a die hard where you and I do this every day
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  together. But all of that is entirely
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  academic, because here we are, and today we are going to do
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  just that. We're going to read the next
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  chapter of the book of Second Samuel, where we are hearing all
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  about the intrigue and the tussles of power as David and
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  his supporters are trying to take the throne not just of
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  Judah but of the whole of Israel.
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  But it is not a straightforward process.
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  So, Holy Spirit, in the midst of all of this toing and froing and
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  fighting and power struggles, we just pray that Your Voice would
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  speak to us to reveal something of you so that we can learn more
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  about you and live as your disciples the way you would call
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  us to. All right, friend, you're ready.
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  Let us do this together. Read together.
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  Second Samuel, Chapter 4. When Ishbosheth Soul Son heard
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  about Abner's death at Hebron, he lost all courage and all
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  Israel became paralysed with fear.
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  Now there were two brothers, Bahner and Recab, who were
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  captains of Ishbosheth's raiding parties.
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  They were sons of Rimon, a member of the tribe of Benjamin
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  who lived in Beeroth. The town of Beeroth is now part
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  of Benjamin's territory because the original people of Beeroth
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  fled to Gitam, where they still live as foreigners.
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  Soul son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth who was
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  crippled as a child. He was five years old when the
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  report came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan had been
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  killed in battle. When the child's nurse heard the
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  news, she picked him up and fled.
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  But as she hurried away, she dropped him, and he became
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  crippled. One day Recab and Baanah, the
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  sons of Rimon from Beeroth, went to Ishbosheth's house around
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  noon. As he was taking his midday
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  rest, the doorkeeper, who had been sifting wheat, became
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  drowsy and fell asleep, so Recab and Banner slipped past her.
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  They went into the house and found Ishbosheth sleeping on his
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  bed. They struck and killed him and
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  cut off his head. Then, taking his head with them,
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  they fled across the Jordan Valley through the night.
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  When they arrived at Hebron, they presented Ishbosheth's head
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  to David's Look. They exclaimed to the king.
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  Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of your enemy soul, who
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  tried to kill you. Today the Lord has given my Lord
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  the King revenge on Saul and his entire family.
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  But David said to rechab and banner.
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  The Lord who saved me from all my enemies is my witness.
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  Someone once told me Saul is dead, thinking it was bringing
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  me good news, But I seized him and killed him at Ziklag.
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  That's a reward I gave him for his news.
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  How much more should I reward evil men who have killed an
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  innocent man in his own house and on his own bed?
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  Shouldn't I hold you responsible for his blood and rid the earth
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  of you? So David ordered his young men
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  to kill them, and they did. They cut off their heads and
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  feet and hung their bodies beside the pool in Hebron.
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  Then they took Ishbosheth's head and buried it in Abner's tomb in
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  Hebron. Lord, here we see David's heart.
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  Even in the midst of these power struggles and battles, we see
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  that he still trusts you to bring about justice and does not
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  tolerate any of his own men taking matters into their own
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  hands. Lord, help us be the same way.
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  Help us. Just rest in you and your
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  Lordship over our life. And when we feel like we just
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  have to act because we just can't wait for your timing, give
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  us patience, Lord, lift up our eyes from the noisy factors that
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  dwell in front of us so that we can look to you and see your
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  throne sitting over all and know that in your hands you hold
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  everything. You are a mighty, just and
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  loving God who acts in our interest and the interest of
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  your beloved children. That's us.
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  So we thank you and we praise you, and we give all authority
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  in kingship to you. Let me probably all of this in
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  Jesus name. Amen.