Chapter
4. A case of “Here we go again!” Saul’s son Ishbosheth is killed and
avenged in a similar fashion to Abner.
Chapter 5 finds David anointed
to be king of Israel as well as Judah.
The tribes said, “Behold, we are
thy bone and thy flesh.” Some wise men there! And women perhaps?
7 years 6 months of
David’s reign over Judah had passed before this happened.
I have had another wonder.
Other than Goliath, did David actually kill anyone himself? All those
thousands which are attributed to him would be done in his name, perhaps?
In verse 6, “the blind and the
lame” presents a question for us. The NRSV tells us that its translation
“reflects the interpretation that the Jebusites (of Jerusalem) are taunting
David: ‘We are so much stronger than you that even our blind and lame can keep
you out.’”
This turned out to be
incorrect. David’s troops took Jerusalem which was to become The City of
David.
A couple more go-ins with the
Philistines, one particularly God directed, and we finish the fifth
chapter. Really rolling along, eh?
Joyce Voysey
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