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May 7 - 2 Samuel 21 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's a Tuesday.
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  It is the 7th of May, so glad to have your company.
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  Thank you for tapping on play and inviting me into your day.
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  Your day that's probably getting chillier and chillier if you are
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  in the same part of the world as me.
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  Ohe, we've got these heaters that are very clever.
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  They just sit quietly and then when it drops below a certain
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  temperature during a certain time of the day, they just turn
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  themselves on and take a chill out of the air.
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  And we woke up the other morning to the strange smell of dust
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  burning. They they are finally starting
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  to turn back on again after the whole summer season where
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  they've sat dormant. So that's how you know that it's
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  starting to chill down oht you might be one of these gloriously
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  lucky people on the other side of the world where you'll your
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  world is warming up. Ah, how good is that?
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  But I need to temper all of this and my love of warmth by my
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  youngest, who said dad, I love winter.
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  It is my favourite season of the year.
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  So if you're a winter lover then boy, you are in the right place
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  heading toward the greatest season, but not for me.
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  But that's enough about me. We continue on this journey,
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  hearing about what David is doing as he comes back to his
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  throne in Jerusalem. And today he is going to take on
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  that old foe, the Philistine army.
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  That's right, they have not gone anywhere.
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  So let us continue reading together.
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  Holy Spirit, reveal yourself to us today.
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  Open our hearts and our minds to you as we read this together.
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  All right, friends, let us read together.
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  Second Samuel, Chapter 21. There was a famine during
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  David's reign that lasted for three years.
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  So David asked the Lord about it, and the Lord said, the
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  famine has come because Saul and his family are guilty of
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  murdering the Gibeonites. So the king summoned the
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  Gibeonites. They were not part of Israel,
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  but were all that was left of the nation of the Amorites.
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  The people of Israel had sworn not to kill them, but Saul, in
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  his zeal for Israel and Judah, had tried to wipe them out.
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  David asked them, what can I do for you?
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  How can I make amends so that you will bless the Lord's people
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  again? Well, money can't settle this
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  matter between US and the family of Saul, the Gibeonites replied.
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  Neither can we demand the life of anyone in Israel.
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  Then what can I do then? David asked.
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  Just tell me and I will do it for you.
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  Then they replied, It was Saul who planned to destroy us, to
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  keep us from having any place at all in the territory of Israel.
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  So let 7 of Saul's sons be handed over to us, and we will
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  execute them before the Lord at Gibeon on the mountain of the
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  Lord. All right, the king said.
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  I will do it. The king spared Jonathan's son
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  Mephibosheth, who was Saul's grandson because of the oath
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  David and Jonathan had sworn before the Lord.
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  But he gave them souls, two sons, Armoni and Mephibosheth,
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  whose mother was Rizpah, daughter of Aya.
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  He also gave them the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, the
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  wife of Adriel, son of Barzilai from Mahola.
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  The men of Gibeon executed them in the mountain before the Lord,
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  so all seven of them died together at the beginning of the
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  barley harvest. Then Rispa, daughter of Aya, the
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  mother of two of the men, spread burlap on a rock and stayed
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  there the entire harvest season. She prevented the scavenger
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  birds from tearing at their bodies during the day and
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  stopped wild animals from eating them at night.
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  When David learned what Rispa SAWS concubine had done, he went
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  to the people of Jabesh Gilead and retrieved the bones of Saul
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  and his son Jonathan. When the Philistines had killed
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  Saul and Jonathan on Mount Gilboa, the people of Jabesh
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  Gilead stole their bodies from the public square at Bethshan
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  where the Philistines had hung them.
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  So David obtained the bones of Saul and Jonathan, as well as
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  the bones of the men the Gibeonites had executed.
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  Then the king ordered that they bury the bones and the tomb of
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  Kish, Saul's father at the town of Zilla in the land of
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  Benjamin. After that, God ended the famine
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  in the land. Once again, the Philistines were
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  at war with Israel, and when David and his men were in the
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  thick of battle, David became weak and exhausted.
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  Ishbi Benab was descendant of the giants.
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  His bronze spearhead weighed more than 7 lbs and he was armed
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  with a new sword. He had cornered David and was
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  about to kill him. But Abishai, son of Zeruiah,
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  came to David's rescue and killed the Philistine.
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  Then David's men declared, you are not going out to battle with
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  us again. Why risk snuffing out the Light
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  of Israel after this? There was another battle against
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  the Philistines at Gob. As they fought, Sipeki from
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  Hashash killed Saf, another descendant of the giants.
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  During another battle at Gob, Elhanan, son of Jaya from
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  Bethlehem, killed the brother of Goliath of Gath.
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  The handle of his spear was thicker than a weaver's beam.
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  In another battle with the Philistines at Gaffe, they
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  encountered a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six
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  toes on each foot, 24 in all, who was also descended of the
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  giants. But when he defied and taunted
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  Israel, he was killed by Jonathan, the son of David's
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  brother, Shemya. These four Philistines were
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  descendants of the giants of Gath, but David and his warriors
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  killed them. Lord has reread this chapter.
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  We hear evidence that you do not forget those who are wrong,
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  those who have been vulnerable and oppressed.
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  But your heart bleeds for them, and you remember their anguish,
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  and in the fullness of time you bring your justice.
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  Ah, Lord, let us just lean into you and your provisions of
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  justice. Help us not feel like we need to
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  continually work to bring justice ourselves, but to know
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  that your palette is so much broader and wider and longer and
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  more creative than ours could ever be, and that in the
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  fullness of your plans, you will make all things as they should
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  be. So we surrender to you all of
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  our own grievances, all of our own desires.
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  We just place them on the throne of worship to You, our great and
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  holy God. You know what's best, and you
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  will bring all things together as they ought to be.
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  So we just praise you and submit to you.
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  As difficult and uncomfortable as that often may be for us,
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  that is our prayer. All in the name of Jesus, Oh
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  man.