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April 29 - 2 Samuel 16 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here. Great to have you company.
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  It is Monday, it is the 29th of April and you have joined me at
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  the start of another week. Good on you.
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  I hope you're going well. Hope your weekend was a time of
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  a little bit of rest and relaxation and replenishment
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  before the madness of the week ahead.
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  If that's how your life rolls, or if your week ahead looking
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  cruisy, hey, that's fantastic. Because unfortunately the week
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  ahead is not looking crazy if you are King David.
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  Because this is the week where the consequences of his sin is
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  going to play out and his family is going to continue to unravel,
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  and it will end with great sadness.
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  However, it is part of a much bigger story which does not end
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  with sadness. No, no, friend, you know that it
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  ends very well with us sitting here living under a new covenant
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  of grace and forgiveness under the glorious kingship of our
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  God. So we will hold on to that as we
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  go through this week. But let's do it, shall we?
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  Come, Holy Spirit, teach us. Guide us.
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  Reveal yourself to us as we read this chapter.
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  All right, friends, let's do it. Let's read together Second
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  Samuel, Chapter 16, when David had gone a little
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  beyond the summit of the Mount of Olives.
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  Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, was waiting there
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  for him. He had two donkeys loaded with
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  200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches
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  of summer fruit, and a wineskin full of wine.
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  What are these for the king? Arciba?
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  Siva replied that donkeys are for the King's people to ride
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  on, and the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to
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  eat. The wine is for those who become
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  exhausted in the wilderness. And where is Mephibosheth,
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  Saul's grandson? The king asked him.
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  He stayed in Jerusalem. Ziba replied.
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  He said. Today I will get back the
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  Kingdom of my grandfather, soul in that case, the king told
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  Ziba. I give you everything
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  Mephibosheth owns. I bow before you, Zebra replied.
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  May I always be pleasing to you, my Lord the king.
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  As King David came to Bahram, a man came out of the village
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  cursing them. It was Shimei, son of Guerra,
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  from the same clan as Saul's family.
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  He threw stones at the king and the King's offices and all the
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  mighty warriors who surrounded him.
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  Get out of here, you murderer, you scoundrel.
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  He shouted at David. The Lord is paying you back for
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  all the bloodshed and soul's clan.
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  You stole his throne, and now the Lord has given it to your
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  son Absalom. At last you will taste some of
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  your own medicine, for you are a murderer.
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  Why should this dead dog curse my Lord?
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  The king Abishai, son of Zeruiah, demanded.
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  Let me go over and cut off his head.
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  No, the king said. Who asked your opinion?
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  You sons of Zeruiah? If the Lord has told him to
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  curse me, who are you to stop him?
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  Then? David said to Abishai and to all
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  his servants. My own son is trying to kill me.
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  Doesn't this relative of Saul have even more reason to do so?
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  Leave him alone and let him curse, for the Lord has told him
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  to do it. And perhaps the Lord will see
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  that I am being wronged, and will bless me because of these
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  curses to day. Sir David and his men continued
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  down the road, and Shamah kept pace with them on a nearby
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  hillside, cursing and throwing stones and dirt at David.
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  The king and all who were with him grew weary along the way, so
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  they rested when they reached the Jordan River.
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  Meanwhile, Absalon and all the army of Israel arrived at
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  Jerusalem accompanied by a heifer, fell.
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  When David's friend Hushai the Archite arrived, he went
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  immediately to see Absalom. Long live the king, he
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  exclaimed. Long live the king.
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  Is this the way you treat your friend David?
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  Absalom asked him. Why aren't you with him?
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  I'm here because I belong to the man who was chosen by the Lord
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  and by all the men of Israel, who?
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  Shi replied. And anyway, why shouldn't I
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  serve you just as I was your father's adviser?
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  Now I will be your advisor. Then Absalom turned to a Heather
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  Fell and asked him what should I do next?
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  A higher Fell told him, Go and sleep with your father's
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  concubines, for he has left them here to look after the palace.
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  Then all Israel will know that you have insulted your father
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  beyond hope of reconciliation, and they will throw their
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  support for you. So they set up a tent on the
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  palace roof where everyone could see it, and Absalom went in and
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  had sex with his father's concubines.
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  Absalom followed a hyphen's advice, just as David had done.
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  For every word, a hyper fell spoke seemed as wise as though
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  it had come directly from the mouth of God.
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  Ah, Lord, we see so much brokenness in the story.
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  Relationships fractured, old hurts, dredged up family
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  rivalries. Lord, we know these things too
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  well. But as we read this story, we
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  know, no matter how bad things get, that you are greater than
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  every problem they will face and every problem we will face in
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  our lives. So we cling fast to you, our
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  vast and powerful and merciful and kind.
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  God restore us, make us whole by the power of your Spirit, so
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  that we can serve you and share your love and grace and mercy
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  and forgiveness with those we encounter today.
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  We praise you and we ask all the things in the saving name of
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  Jesus. Amen.