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April 15 - 2 Samuel 8 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here. It is a Monday, it is the 15th
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  of April and I am delighted that you have invited me into your
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  day. Thank you friend.
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  I hope you're doing well. At the start of this new week
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  here we are going to continue reading through this book of
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  Second Samuel. Ah, this week we are going to
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  cover some more territory. David is going to be successful,
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  successful, successful. And then by the end of this
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  week, he will have disgraced himself, unfortunately, and his
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  character will be called into question.
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  You know, that is how God rolls. God uses these broken, flawed
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  people to achieve His purpose. He does not choose the
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  incredibly righteous from cradle to grave.
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  He chooses regular people like you and me.
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  People who are flawed, people that make mistakes.
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  Which means you know what? There is space in God's Kingdom
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  for you and me to do amazing things, to share God's love in
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  this world, even despite our cracks, crevices and broken
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  bits, which is encouraging. So how about a friend?
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  How about you and me read this chapter together?
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  Yeah, great. Let's read together Second
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  Samuel, Chapter 8. After this, David defeated and
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  subdued the Philistines by conquering Gath, their largest
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  town. David also conquered the land of
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  Moab. He made the people lie down on
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  the ground in a row, and he measured them off in groups with
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  a length of rope. He measured off two groups to be
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  executed for every one group to be spared.
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  The Moabites who were spared became David's subject and paid
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  him tribute money. David also destroyed the forces
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  of Haddad Azar, son of Rehab, king of Zobah, when her dad is
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  are marched out to strengthen his control along the Euphrates
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  River. David captured 1000 Chariots,
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  7000 charioteers and 20,000 foot soldiers.
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  He crippled all the chariot horses except enough for 100
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  Chariots. When Arameans from Damascus
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  arrived to help King Haddad Azar, David killed 22,000 of
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  them. Then he placed several army
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  garrisons in Damascus, The Aramean capital, and the
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  Arameans became David Subject and paid him tribute money.
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  So the Lord made David victorious wherever he went.
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  David brought the gold Shields of Hadassah's officers to
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  Jerusalem, along with the large amount of bronze from Hadassah's
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  towns of Tiba and Barathi. When King TOI of Hamath heard
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  that David had destroyed the entire army of Hadassah, he sent
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  his son Joram to congratulate King David for his successful
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  campaign. Her dad, Azar and Toy had been
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  enemies and were often at war. Joram presented David with many
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  gifts of silver, gold, and bronze.
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  King David dedicated all these gifts to the Lord as he did with
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  the silver and gold from the other nations he had defeated.
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  From Edom, Moab, Ammon, Philistia and Amalek, and from
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  her dad Azar, son of Rehab, King of Zobah.
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  So David became even more famous when he returned from destroying
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  18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
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  He placed army garrisons throughout Edom and all the
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  Edomites became David subjects. In fact, the Lord made David
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  victorious wherever he went. So David reigned over all
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  Jerusalem and did what was just and right for all his people.
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  Joeb, son of Zeruiah, was commander of the army.
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  Jehoshaphat, son of a highland, was the royal historian.
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  Zadok, son of a Hatib and Ahimelech, son of Abiathar were
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  the priests. Suraya was the court secretary,
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  Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, was captain of the King's bodyguard,
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  and David's sons served as priestly leaders.
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  Thought as we hear of these conquests of David and the
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  Israelite army, we are so aware that all of this is leading
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  toward a future. A future where there will be
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  peace. Enough for your Kingdom to be
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  established, for your people to reach their high points, for
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  this dynasty to be firmly established so that you can
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  achieve your purpose in the long run.
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  That you can bring us Jesus now. Lord, we don't know what the
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  long term plan, We don't know what the spiritual dynasties are
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  that we are playing a part in now, but we just trust in you.
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  We trust in your enormous plans that we don't understand, but in
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  faith we serve you, and we thank you for your love and your
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  provision. You are a good, good kind God,
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  and we thank you. And it's in the name of Jesus
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  that we pray all these things. Ah man.