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Hey, welcome back to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. We love jumping into Scripture every day with you. So today we're jumping into 2nd Samuel 19:21. When we left off, David's son Absalom had been killed. David was grieving in that moment. What happens next?
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CJ yeah. So Joab is frustrated that David is so sad. It's like you're kind of dishonoring the army and everyone who's been fighting for you by saying the enemy who just died is causing all this, all this pain and turmoil. But David's saying, this is my son. But regardless, David eventually gets over it. He takes the throne again in Jerusalem. But then in 2nd Samuel 20, a man named Sheba, a Benjaminite, he resists David's return to the throne, and he starts to get some followers. And the text says that all Israel defected from David and followed Sheba. Now, this might just be hyperbole. Like, you know, it doesn't necessarily mean every last Israelite, but it means a good chunk of Israelites started to follow him instead of David. So that's something that. That happens. And eventually David puts down the rebellion and everything sort of cools off a little bit. And then in second Samuel 21, we learn that a famine in the land pops up, and it was caused by Saul. And the reason it was caused by Saul is because he had broken the covenant that Joshua made back in the book of Joshua with the Gibeonites. Wow. And Saul had somehow harmed the Gibeonites. This is the only time we hear about it. But it was not okay in God's eyes, because a covenant's a covenant, and God punishes Israel for it. And the Gibeonites asked for seven of Saul's sons. And David is wisely able to preserve Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son, who he promised that he would take care of. Remember, he promised that to Jonathan. Altar, take care of your family. But he was also trying to honor the Gibeonite covenant that Saul broke. And then he, David, ends that little story by honoring Saul and Jonathan, by burying their bodies along with the other victim's bones. He buried them all in his father's grave.
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Okay, so, yeah, that was a great breakdown of the nuts and bolts in these chapters. Can we talk about where we see Christ in these chapters? Is there a picture of that in here somewhere?
A (2:22)
Yeah. So a thing that we haven't really touched on, but I would like to touch on now, is not God's anointed per se, but how people respond to God's anointed. And we've talked about maybe a little bit, but I think this is a good time to do it as we're sort of wrapping up Samuel here in the next couple episodes. So there have been a ton of characters in the Book of Samuel, and it's kind of hard to keep them all straight. But we just actually encountered two that are really important for this point that I'm trying to point out for us. Shimei and Ziba.