August 23 & 24, 2025
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Reading along with us in 2 Samuel and Acts? Here’s today’s reading:
2 Samuel 4 (NIV)
Ish-Bosheth Murdered
1 When Ish-Bosheth son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he lost courage, and all Israel became alarmed. 2 Now Saul’s son had two men who were leaders of raiding bands. One was named Baanah and the other Rekab; they were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite from the tribe of Benjamin—Beeroth is considered part of Benjamin,……Continue Reading
David was willing and able to take the throne but he was trusting in God’s timing and wanted to do it the proper way. When greeted with the severed head of Ish-Bosheth this did not bring him the joy these two men expected (as it wouldn’t for me either lol). These men seeking to avenge David by killing Saul’s son are not doing the will of God but rather, like Abner, seeking to take mattters into their own hands to advance their own position. This was not a death in the heat of a battle but rather just a gruesome murder of an innocent man and so David rightfully made an example out of them….not sure why the examples must be so grizzly but there is it was hanging by the pool with no hands and feet. Yikes, lesson learned!
The soap opera continues as these 2 trusted men of Ish-Bosheth try to curry David’s favor by misusing the trust and killing him. They just didn’t get the memo that David is not like other kings of that day who would reward an action like that. God makes us different than the world and so David executes judgement on them for what they did. Committing cold blooded murder, a worse offense of all the offenses we have seen in this book so far…and we should never take advantage of the trust people put in us…
Acts 1; 2 Samuel 3-4; Hosea 1-14
It seems like David is getting fed up with people killing for him.
2 Samuel 4
2 Samuel 4
”How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?”“
II Samuel 4:11 NKJV
2 Samuel 4
So much violence! Thank God for sending His Son!