Fr. Mike emphasizes how King David's victories in battle are part of his calling to establish Israel as a kingdom. He also reminds us that the recapitulation of the events we read about 1 Chronicles 10-11, is not repetitive, it served a specific purpose for the people of Israel. Today we read 2 Samuel 8, 1 Chronicles 10-11 and Psalm 60. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
Chapter 1: What is the focus of today's readings?
Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. Today is day 126. We are reading from 2 Samuel chapter 8, as well as 1 Chronicles chapters 10 and 11. We're also praying Psalm 60. As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, 2nd Catholic Edition.
And I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. And you can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking subscribe, and then it's done. As I said, it's day 126. We're reading 2 Samuel chapter 8, 1 Chronicles chapters 10 and 11, and we are praying Psalm 60.
The book of 2 Samuel chapter 8, David's wars. After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them. And David took Mithigamah out of the hand of the Philistines. And he defeated Moab and measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.
david also defeated hadadezer the son of rehob the king of zobah as he went to restore his power at the river euphrates and david took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand foot soldiers and david hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for a hundred chariots
Chapter 2: What battles did King David win?
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew 22,000 men of the Syrians. Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went. And David took the shields of gold which were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.
And from Betah and Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took very much bronze. When Toy, king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer, Toy sent his son Joram to King David to greet him and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him. For Hadadezer had often been at war with Toy.
And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze. These also King David dedicated to the Lord, together with the silver and gold which he dedicated from all the nations he subdued, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah. And David won a name for himself.
When he returned, he slew 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and he put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went. David's Officers So David reigned over all Israel, and David administered justice and equity to all his people.
And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder. and Zedok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Sariah was secretary, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherithites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were priests. The first book of Chronicles, chapter 10, the death of Saul and his sons.
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Chapter 3: How did David establish his reign over Israel?
Now the Philistines fought against Israel and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons and the Philistines slew Jonathan and Abinadab and Melchishua, the sons of Saul. The battle pressed hard upon Saul, and the archers found him, and he was wounded by the archers.
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and make sport of me. But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it. And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died. Thus Saul died. He and his three sons and all his house died together.
And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and dwelt in them. The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
And they stripped him and took his head and his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people. And they put his armor in the temple of their gods and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
But when all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, all the valiant men rose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days. So Saul died for his unfaithfulness. He was unfaithful to the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord.
and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance, and did not seek guidance from the Lord. Therefore the Lord slew him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse. Chapter 11. David anointed king of all Israel. Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron and said, Behold, we are your bone and flesh.
In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you that led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord your God said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel. So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord.
And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by Samuel. David's army captures Jerusalem. And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is Jebus, where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of that land. The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, you will not come in here. Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is the city of David.
David said, whoever shall strike the Jebusites first shall be chief and commander. And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, so he became chief. And David dwelt in the stronghold, therefore it was called the city of David. And he built the city round about from the millow in complete circuit. And Joab repaired the rest of the city.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of David's mighty men?
Chapter 5: What led to the death of King Saul?
He wielded his spear against 300 whom he slew at one time. And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar, the son of Dodo, the Ahohite. He was with David at Pasdamim when the Philistines were gathered there for battle. There was a plot of ground full of barley and the men fled from the Philistines.
But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and slew the Philistines and the Lord saved them by a great victory. Three of the 30 chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adulam when the army of Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.
And David said longingly, Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate. Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, which was by the gate, and took and brought it to David. But David would not drink of it.
He poured it out to the Lord and said, Far be it from me before my God that I should do this. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty, and he wielded his spear against three hundred men and slew them and won a name beside the three. He was most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three. And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was a valiant man of Kabzil, a doer of great deeds. He struck two aerials of Moab.
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Chapter 6: Why is the city of David important?
He also went down and slew a lion in a pit on a day when the snow had fallen. And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver's beam. But Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and slew him with his own spear.
These things did Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men. He was renowned among the 30, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard. the mighty men of the armies were asahel the brother of joab elchanan the son of dodo of bethlehem shamath of harod helez the pelonite ira the son of ikesh of tekoa abiezar of anathoth
Sivakai the Hushethite, Eli the Ahuchite, Mahari of Netophah, Haled the son of Baana of Netophah, Ithai the son of Rebai of Gibeah of the Benjaminites, Benaiah of Pirathon, Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbethite, Azmaveth, of Bahurum. Eliabah, of Shaalbaon. Hashem, the Gizanite. Jonathan, son of Shagi, the Haarite. Achiam, the son of Sakhar, the Hararite. Eliphal, the son of Ur.
Hefer, the Mecharithite. Ahijah, the Pelonite. Hezro, of Carmel. Na'arai, the son of Ezbai. Joel, the brother of Nathan. Mibhar, the son of Hagri. Zelek, the Ammonite. Naharai of Beoroth, the armor-bearer of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, Ira the Ithrite, Gerib the Ithrite, Uriah the Hittite, Zebad the son of Alaiah, Adinah the son of Shezah the Reubenite,
a leader of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, Hanan, the son of Maakah, and Josaphat, the Mithnite, Uzziah, the Ashtorethite, Shammah, and Jael, the sons of Hotham, the Arorite, Jediahel, the son of Shimri, and Johah, his brother, the Tizite, Eliel, the Mahavite, and Jerobai, and Josheviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithma, the Moabite, Eliel and Obed, and Jaasiel, the Amazobite,
The book of Psalms chapter 60, prayer for national victory after defeat to the choir master, according to the Shushan Eduth, a victim of David for instruction when he strove with Aram Nacharim and with the Aram Zobah and when Joab on his return killed 12,000 of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses. You have been angry. O restore us.
You have made the land to quake. You have torn it open. Repair its breaches, for it totters. You have made your people suffer hard things. You have given us wine to drink that made us real. You have set up a banner for those who fear you to rally to it from the bow that your beloved may be delivered. Give victory by your right hand and answer us. God has spoken in his sanctuary.
With exaltation, I will divide up Shechem and portion out the valley of Sukkoth. Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim is my helmet. Judah is my scepter. Moab is my washbasin. Upon Edom, I cast my shoe. Over Philistia, I shout in triumph. Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom? Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go forth, O God, with our armies.
O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man. With God we shall do valiantly.
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