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April 17 - 2 Samuel 10 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. It's Sean.
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  Here it is the 17th. It is Wednesday.
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  It is April. It is 2024.
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  It is time for you to put down the business, the hectic,
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  whatever it is that's coming your way or the chilled out day
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  that you may have ahead or that you have enjoyed.
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  And to put that all away and to come before our God and to hear
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  another chapter of His Word as revealed in the book of Second
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  Samuel. And as we read some of these
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  stories, you may be thinking, ohhh, this doesn't seem to have
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  a lot of relevance in my life. All these battles of King David
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  taking on the Ammonites, etcetera, etcetera.
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  And while that may well be true, the thing that each of these
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  stories does have is it is written with its lens.
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  The the, the philtre through which it interprets everything
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  is clearly God centric. And it is a wonderful way that
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  each day as weed engage in these stories, in these chapters of
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  God's word, no matter how irrelevant they may seem, what
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  they are doing is they are attuning the rhythm of our
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  heart. They are shaping the colour that
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  we use to colour the world around us.
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  That it would always be our God who sits at the centre of it.
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  So that as we go through our day and all the different contexts
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  that we face, it's God and His presence in our lives that can
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  continually bubble back up to the centre.
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  So that itself is such a gift, even if even if the story seems
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  to be travelling in a different direction.
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  And we think, oh, what is this all about?
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  So today's chapter is no different.
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  Today's chapter written by this author not as historical
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  document, but to capture God's relationship with his people as
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  they grow as a nation with their new king.
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  So let's read it together, shall we?
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  Let's read together. Second Samuel, chapter 10.
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  Some time after this, King Nahash of the Ammonites died and
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  his son Hainan became king, David said.
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  I am going to show loyalty to Hanan.
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  Just as his father Nahash was always loyal to me, so David
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  sent ambassadors to express sympathy to Hanan about his
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  father's death. But when David's ambassadors
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  arrived in the land of Amon, the Ammonite commanders said to
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  Hainan, their master. Do you really think these men
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  are coming here to honour your father?
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  No. David has sent them to spy out
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  the city so they can come in and conquer it.
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  So Hanan seized David's ambassadors and shaved off half
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  of each man's beard, cut off their robes at the buttocks, and
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  sent them back to David in shame.
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  When David heard what had happened, he sent messages to
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  tell the men stay in Jericho until your beards grow out and
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  then come back, for they felt deep shame because of their
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  appearance. When the people of Amon realised
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  how seriously they had angered David, they sent and hired
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  20,000 Aramian foot soldiers from the lands of Beth, Rehob
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  and Zobah, 1000 from the King of Maka and 12,000 from the land of
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  Tob. When David heard about this, he
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  sent Joab and all his warriors to fight them.
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  The Ammonite troops came out and drew up their battle lines at
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  the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans from Zoba and
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  Rehab and the men of Tob and Maker positioned themselves to
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  fight in the open fields. When Joab saw that he would have
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  to fight in both the front and the rear, he chose some of
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  Israel's elite troops and placed them under his personal command
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  to fight the Arameans and the fields.
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  He left the rest of the army under the command of his brother
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  Abishai, who was to attack the Ammonites.
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  If the Arameans are too strong for me, then come over and help
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  me, Joab told his brother. And if the Ammonites are too
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  strong for you, I will come and help you.
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  Be courageous. Let us fight bravely for our
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  people and the cities of our God.
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  May the Lords will be done. When Joab and his troops
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  attacked, the Arameans began to run away, and when the Ammonites
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  saw the Arameans running, they ran from Abshire and retreated
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  into the city. After the battle was over, Joe
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  AB returned to Jerusalem. The Arameans now realised that
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  they were no match for Israel, so when they regrouped, they
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  were joined by additional Aramian troops summoned by
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  Hadada Azar from the other side of the Euphrates River.
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  These troops arrived at Hilum under the command of Shobak, the
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  commander of Hadassah's forces. When David heard what was
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  happening, he mobilised all Israel, crossed the Jordan River
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  and led the army to Helium. The Arameans positioned
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  themselves in battle formation and fought against David, but
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  again the Arameans fled from the Israelites.
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  This time, David's forces killed 700 charioteers and 40,000 foot
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  soldiers, including Showback, the commander of the army.
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  When all the kings allied with Hadasa saw that they had been
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  defeated by Israel, they surrendered to Israel and became
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  their subjects. After that the Arameans were
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  afraid to help the Ammonites. Lord, let these troops of Israel
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  armies be an example to us as they go into battle.
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  They don't do it for personal glory.
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  They don't do it for gain. They don't do it for territory.
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  They'd do it for the cities of their God.
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  That your will would be done. Our Lord, as we go into the
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  challenges of our days, let our motivation be that your will
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  would be done, that your Kingdom would become a reality, that
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  your grace would be evident not only in US but in our actions
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  and in the the wake that we leave behind us as we move
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  through the day. Lord, you are the cause worth
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  fighting for. You are the goal of our lives.
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  You are the wind that fills our sails and keeps us going.
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  And you are the prize at the end of it all.
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  And we love you. And we are so grateful that you
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  draw us into your family. You wrap your arms around us and
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  you love us, and so we place you on the highest, the highest
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  throne in our lives. And we pray all these things
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  through the saving name of Jesus, OHP man.