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Absalom returns to Jerusalem and David forgives him. Absalom’s conspiracy and David flees to Jerusalem

Bible Summary Day 106

2nd Samuel chapter 12:- Nathan asked David, “Why have you done evil?” David pleaded with God but his child with Bathsheba died. Then Bathsheba bore Solomon.

2nd Samuel chapter 13: David’s son Amnon sent for his sister Tamar and raped her. Tamar’s brother Absalom had his servants kill Amnon and then he fled

Bible summary 2 Samuel 9-11 (day 105)

In chapter 9, David finds Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson and his best friend Jonathan’s son and treats him kindly by restoring all the land that belonged to Saul to him, giving him a servant Ziba to take care of the land and promising that Mephibosheth would eat at the king’s table as long as he lives.

In chapter 10, David sends condolences to Hanun the son of the king of Ammon after the king dies.  Hanun doesn’t receive the message, however, and instead mistreats David’s messengers.  David goes to war against them and wins.

Sadly this part of David’s story ends in chapter 11 with him committing adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, one of the men in his army.  She gets pregnant and David schemes to get Uriah back home to sleep with her.  The scheme doesn’t work and David sets Uriah up to be killed in battle.  After the period of mourning for Uriah’s death, David takes Bathsheba as his wife, and she has a son.  But what David did displeased God.

David Brings the Ark of Yahweh to Jerusalem. Yahweh makes a covenant with David. David Responds to Yahweh’s Covenant.

David grew stronger and he takes on more wives and concubines. Abner pledges support for David and Joab assassinates him. Then Ish-Bosheth is assassinated by Recab and Baanah. Then David has them killed. David is anointed King over all Israel

Saul died and his 3 sons

SUMMER OF THE BOOK OF 1 SAMUEL (chapter 27 28 29 30). 1) talk about how David was running from Saul and went to live with the Philistine. 2) David live with the Philistine for a year and four months. chapter 28. 1) talks about how Saul seek a woman with a familiar spirit for help. 2) God did not speak to Saul neither by dream nor by urim or by prophets. chapter 29. 1) the prices of the philistine do not allowed David go to war with them. chapter 30. 1) talk about how David and is men got to the city and saw that the city as been burnt down and is wife and all is men wife and children were taken captives.

Saul Dies. David marries Abigail. David spares Sauls life.

Bible Summary Day 99

1st Samuel chapter 22: About four hundred men joined David. Saul ordered that all the priests be killed because they helped David. Only Abiathar escaped.

1st Samuel Chapter 23: David and his men saved Keilah from the Philistines. Saul came to Keilah so David escaped. Saul gave chase but he was called away.

1st Samuel Chapter 24: Saul went after David. David cut off a piece of Saul’s robe but spared his life. Saul wept and said, “You shall surely be king.”

Bible summary

King Saul has been trying to kill David and in chapter 20, David tells his best friend Jonathan, who happens to be Saul’s son, about the king’s plan to kill him. Jonathan doesn’t believe David, however, so David proposes a plan to show Jonathan that he is telling him the truth. The plan does work, and Saul gets angry and tries to kill Jonathan, which confirms what David had been saying.

However, Jonathan and David had made a covenant with each other, and they had also planned a secret signal whereby Jonathan would let David know the outcome of their plan and whether David needed to stay or if he needed to run. And it turns out that he did need to run.

So two best friends are torn apart, crying as David leaves, on the run for his life.

He gets to a place called Nob in chapter 21 where he gets bread from the priest Ahimelech. But he also gets the sword of Goliath, the giant he had killed in an earlier chapter. He then leaves Nob and runs to Gath, which is the territory of the Philistines.

The people tell the king of Gath, king Achish, that David is the king of the land and that he is the one they were singing about – Saul has killed his thousands and David his ten thousands.

So David is afraid for his life because of what the people were saying about him, afraid that the king would now try to kill him. And so he pretends that he is mad and when they bring David before the king of Gath, the king dismisses David as a madman.