Israel has agreed to David’s plan to bring the Ark of the Lord to Jerusalem. EVERYONE gathers for this momentous occasion, but disaster strikes. David wanted everyone on board with his decision to bring the Ark back to the people. He was greeted with enthusiasm. This may have been something the people longed for too. […]
David decides to bring the Ark of the Lord to Jerusalem. David starts this journey with the people firmly beside him. We encountered this story in the book of 2 Samuel 6. In today’s reading we see something that we didn’t in the previous telling of this story. We see that David consults the people […]
We met David’s 30 mighty men last time. Today we will see the scores more that joined together to make him king of Israel. They would be faithful too. When David came out of the land of the Philistines after Saul’s death he had more than 600 fighting men with him. This did not take […]
We are introduced to David’s mighty men. The men who stood beside him through thick and thin. The ones who fought beside him night and day. David had a core group that was closer to him than the rest. Within that core group was an even more special group. They were the cream of the […]
A very abbreviated story of David’s conquest of Jebus, which is Jerusalem, fills our reading today. David triumphed because the Lord was with him. From what I can find in research, one of David’s acts in his first year after becoming king of Israel was to take Jerusalem. I wonder why he decided he wanted […]