2 Samuel 8

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Let's start with a word of prayer, brother.
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Father, as always, we thank you for another day.
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And as always, we thank you for another Wednesday.
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We can come and be taught.
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We can come and hear the word spoken to us.
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We can come and worship with one another and have that time together.
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So we ask now, I ask you to bless brother Mike.
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I know he's ready to go.
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And we just ask you to bless him as he brings these things out to us.
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In the name of Jesus, amen.
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Alright, let's open up to 2 Samuel 8.
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I'll just read the chapter and we'll get through it for sure today.
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Now after this it came about that David defeated the Philistines and subdued them.
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And David took control of the chief city from the hand of the Philistines.
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He defeated Moab.
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He measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground.
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And he measured two lines to put them to death and one full line to keep alive.
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And the Moabites became servants to David, bringing tribute.
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Then David defeated Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, the king of Zoba.
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As he sent to restore his rule at the river, David captured from him 1,700 horsemen, 20,000 foot soldiers, David hamstrung the chariot horses, but reserved enough of them for 100 chariots.
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And when the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zoba, David killed 22,000 Arameans.
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And then David put garrisons among the Arameans of Damascus, and the Arameans became servants of David, bringing him tribute.
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And the Lord helped David wherever he went.
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And David took the shields of gold, which were carried by the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
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From Beda to Berethe, cities of Hadadezer, king David took a very large amount of bronze.
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Now when Toi, king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer, Toi sent Joroham, his son, to king David to greet him and bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him.
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And Hadadezer had been at war with Toi.
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And Joram brought with him articles of silver and gold and of bronze.
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And king David also dedicated these to the Lord with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated from all the nations what he had subdued, from Aram to Moab, the sons of Ammon and the Philistines, and Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rahab, king of Zobah.
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So David made a name for himself when he returned from killing 18,000 Arameans in the Valley of Salt.
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He put garrisons in Edom.
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In all of Edom he put garrisons.
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And all the Edomites became servants to David.
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And the Lord helped David wherever he went.
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So David reigned over all of Israel.
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And David administered justice and righteousness for all his people.
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And Joab, the son of Zariah, was over the army.
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And Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder.
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And Zadok, the son of Ahithob, and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were the priests.
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And Zariah was secretary.
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And Benaniah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherithites and the Pelethites.
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And David's sons were the chief ministers.
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Wow, a bunch of funny names.
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Man! All right.
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That was pretty easy, wasn't it? All right, so we're getting to an area in 2 Samuel that is, this chapter is not in chronological order.
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We're in chapter 8.
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It's not chronological.
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So what we're actually seeing is a summary of David's conquest.
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And you say, well, how do you know that? Well, when I get down to verse 3, I'll flip over and show you how I came to that conclusion.
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If you disagree with me, that's fine.
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So let's back up and see, and kind of walk through the text.
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It says that in verse 1, it says, After this came about, that David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took control of their chief city from the hand of the Philistines.
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Okay, it says, does anybody's translation in verse 1 say gath, or give some crazy megaloth? Okay.
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Okay, if you flip over to 1 Chronicles 18, it tells you that city's gath.
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Okay? It was the same name.
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And interesting, if you think about, who did he run to to find refuge? Well, where did he run, like a madman? Achish in gath.
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Where did he run for refuge for, I think it was 16 months? Back in 1 Samuel, where did he go? He went to gath.
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So now, David, what does he go do? I wonder, and we don't know at this point if Achish was alive.
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I mean, Achish is actually the one, if you remember, in the two chapters dealing with David, when he was in gath for those 16 months, if you remember, David never mentions God's name.
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The only time Yahweh's name's mentioned in those two chapters is by Achish when Achish says, I know that you're a faithful man of God.
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And the word that you use there is actually Lord, which is Yahweh.
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So you can't help but wonder, okay, at this point, is Achish dead? And David says, you know what, all right, I'm going to go take it.
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Or did he actually go over there and slay Achish? And for that, we really don't know.
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We know this.
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He went over there, and at this point, the Philistines are pretty much wiped out other than a few skirmishes.
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They never come towards Jerusalem again.
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They never try to invade the land again.
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And this is when David goes over there and pretty much squashes that.
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He takes the city of Gath.
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Then he does the same thing in verse 2 that he did in verse 1.
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He defeated the Moabites.
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Well, where did he go when he was running from Achish? You remember? Where did he go when he was acting like a madman? And he's worried about Achish killing him.
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Where did he go? He got his family.
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He went to the cave of Adullam, and then his family came there, and then he took them all the way across the desert.
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Now, whether he went around this end or they got a boat and went across the Engedi, we don't know.
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But they ended up in Moab.
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Why did they end up in Moab? Anybody remember how we came to that conclusion? His grandmother was from there, Ruth.
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So now, where David found refuge, remember he gave his parents to the king of Moab and said, Hey, take care of them.
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I'm on the run, Saul.
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I don't want them killed.
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They're safe over here.
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And the king of Moab said, No problem.
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He kept them there.
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Well, now David says or decides in verse 2, He defeated Moab.
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He measured them out with a line, making them lie down on the ground, and he measured two lines to put to death and another full line to keep alive, and the Moabites became the servants of David, bringing tribute.
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That sounds kind of rough.
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Can you imagine laying there? Yeah, which line? You don't know yet.
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He's lining them up.
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Now, it does seem brutal, and we can look at this in two ways.
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My perspective is this is a description of what David did.
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It doesn't say that the Bible said this was the right thing to do.
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I'm just going to let you know that.
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If you remember when David was sent, he was given a ziklag.
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Do you remember what he did in all these surrounding places here? When he was 16 months, what did he do? I mean, every one of them.
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Man, woman, boy, girl, it didn't matter.
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He killed them all, and the Bible, we try to make moral distinctions.
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The Bible didn't make any moral distinction whether it was right, wrong, or indifferent.
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It's just describing what David did.
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In this case, David laid them out however he did that.
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Maybe it was, hey, these are the best of the best, and these are the ones that look like they may be warriors down the road, so we'll keep the ones that aren't as healthy and make them slaves.
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We don't know, but he laid them down on the ground, and he killed them, and some of them he saved.
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Now, another way of also looking at that is David as being king and representative of Christ from a New Testament perspective, did he have the right to kill whom he wanted and to save whom he wanted? Did he? You better believe he did.
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He was the king.
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He did.
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Did he have the right to show justice and mercy? And he did.
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And I would say from that perspective, David acted Christ-like in dispensing justice and mercy.
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Okay? That brings us to verse 3.
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It says, did anybody disagree with that? Don't agree with what David did or don't care? Okay.
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Yes, ma'am.
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That's true.
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I see what David did, okay? He was told to subdue the nations around him, and we're going to get to here in a minute where, and I don't have a big enough map.
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I believe that David actually, the dispensational people wait because the land's not been completely subdued, but if we listen to what 6 and up take place, David subdues the land, okay? And it says at the end, the Amalekites, where did the Amalekites' land go to? I don't have a big enough map, but it goes to the Nile because it goes down to where they came across the Nile, which would be, if you could draw it bigger, it would be, you know, you'd have the Delta Crescent and all that, it would be right here.
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Well, their land went all the way down through there, and it says that he subdued them, and don't have a big enough way to go here, but if you come over here, you'd have the Euphrates and the Tigris, and it says that he goes, and it just says here in one of these, the great river, but if you go to the other passage, it's the Euphrates, and we'll get that.
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So he had, what did he tell Abraham? From the Nile to the great river Euphrates, that'll be your land, and to King David, he subdues all of them, so.
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It's just fulfilling what the Israelites didn't do when they...
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When they came into the land, like under Joshua, I would say, did they occupy the land that was promised to them under Joshua? Yes, obviously they did, but they failed to do what God told them to do, which was run them out.
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One, they didn't run all these guys out, and we can just say specifically, we know that they didn't run them out of Jerusalem, which was Jabez at the time, because what did David do after he killed Goliath? Remember, these people were the only inhabitants inhabiting this land that they were supposed to have, and what did David do? Whether he threw the head over the wall or stuck it up on a post, we don't know, but they knew David's coming here, and what did David do once he became the monarch? What was the first place he went? Jabez.
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Jabez.
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So, I see the fulfillment of the land promise carried out by David.
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Some dispensational guys would disagree with me, and that's fine.
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So, verse 3, David defeated Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his rule at the river, that is, if we flip over to, and we'll get there, if we flip over to 1 Kings, the great river, it says the Euphrates.
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Now, this here, I was going to bring it up last week, because this does fall kind of in with the Davidic promise, and the reason why it falls in with the Davidic promise is because it's mentioned in there that, remember, he told David, I'm going to raise up your seed, then what's going to happen is when he sends, I'm going to raise up nations around him to chastise him.
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Do you all remember that? Okay? All right.
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It will be in this area right here, it'll be because of that.
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It says that David defeated King Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah, as he went to restore his rule at the river.
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David captured from him 1,700 horsemen, 20,000 foot soldiers, and David hamstrung the chariots, but reserved enough of them for 100 chariots.
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And when the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David killed 22,000 people, or 22,000 Arameans.
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Okay.
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It says this here, that is, this section here as well, that is out of sequence.
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This is not chronological.
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It is right here, it's telling of an event where David subdued his enemies.
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And we'll deal with this somewhat again when you flip over to chapter 10.
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Mine's almost on the same page, but if you flip over to chapter 10, it talks about David having, he deals with Nahash's son Nahum.
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They disrespect his servants, and then Nahum needs help.
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And who does he get the help from? If you look in verse 6, he gets them from the Arameans.
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And it's Hadadezer's guys.
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So like I said, remember, chapter 8 is just a summary of his conquest.
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Then when you get to chapter 10, this actually talks about how David actually, how and why he defeated Hadadezer.
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Then David put garrisons in the Arameans of Damascus.
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After he killed them people, he put garrisons in there.
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What was the reason to put a garrison there? Anybody know what the purpose was? Regroup? Or to continue to kill the males.
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And we'll deal with that in just a second.
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Or to kill whatever men that had the potential, men of war that could uprise.
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And they became, I'm sorry, verse 6, David put garrisons among the Arameans of Damascus.
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And the Arameans became David's servants and bringing them tribute.
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Once again, these people, we have the Moabites in order to show that David is now king over the land.
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What did they do? They bring tribute to him, basically paying taxes and showing him honor.
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Now we see the Arameans doing the same thing.
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Paying taxes, bringing David tribute.
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And in the end of verse 6, it says, And the Lord held David wherever he went.
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That is what my translation says.
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I don't prefer that translation.
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I prefer the translation that says, And the Lord preserved David wherever he went.
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He says it again in verse 14.
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That's it.
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And the reason why I say preserved because that's what God did.
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Wherever David went, he preserved David's life.
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They think about even back from the time he was anointed king, as a boy, teenager, whatever age you want to take.
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Did he not preserve David's life? Yes, he sure did.
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How did he preserve David's life when the lion and the bear came up? Because he was empowered by the Holy Spirit at that time, what did he do? He tore him apart with his hands.
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Who preserved David when he stood out in front of Goliath? It was God.
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And David knew that it was God that had preserved him.
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Because what did he say? He said, Hey, when I was in the field, hey, I was able to do that.
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It was God that delivered them into my hand.
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What do you say about Goliath? He says this, and he says, God's going to deliver me into your hand, but then I'm going to cut off your head and feed the rest of your body and all these other animals.
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I'm going to feed the birds of the air and they're going to eat your flesh and all that nice language.
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So, David realizes that it is God who has done this for him.
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David never takes the credit.
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Ever.
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Read the Psalms.
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Even when his, I think I said this last week or the week before, even when David, the Psalm that he writes about when he goes to Gath and he uses his deceptive act of acting like a fool or deceiving Achish, saying he's going out and he's raiding his enemies, thinking it's Judah.
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He doesn't take the credit.
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He gives God the credit.
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He says, look, it was God that preserved me in those times.
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It was God that kept me from dying.
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It was the Lord that kept me from the evil one in those times.
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And then in verse 7 it says, But David took the shields of gold which were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.
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From Betha to Berethi, the cities of Hadadezer, King David took a large amount of bronze.
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So we could flip over.
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I almost did 8 and 10 together, but I wanted to keep going together.
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It basically says the same thing.
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He takes a large amount of gold.
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Once he subdues and strikes down Hadadezer, he just continues to take whatever he wants from them.
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And the Arameans.
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And in verse 9, Now when Toy, king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer, Toy sent his son, King David, to greet him and bless him.
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King of Toy, he says, Look, man, this guy has done me a favor.
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I've been fighting with this fool for all these years and have not been able to defeat it.
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So Toy says, man, this is a great thing.
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And what better way of sending an ambassador to speak in your place than sending a son? I mean, you send the son of the king to speak to another man.
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This is an important thing.
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If you even remember the vinedressers, the wall-less vinedressers that Jesus in that parable, when he was given the parable, he sent messenger after messenger after messenger and what did they do to those messengers? They killed them.
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But then he said, hold on.
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I'll send my son and they'll know this is no joke.
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And what did they do? They killed the son.
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And once they killed the son, then what did they say should be done to those people? To wipe the whole city out.
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So the ambassador, the son, acting as the ambassador, required either more dignity and more punishment.
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So he sends his son and it says that before they had been at war with him for a long time, and Joram brought with him articles of silver and gold and bronze.
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So in other words, they're paying tribute to David.
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Yes, sir.
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Do we know where Hamoth is? Up here.
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Okay.
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It's up in this area here.
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It might not be on this map, but it is up north.
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Yeah, it is up north.
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Where was I at? Okay, so King David dedicated all of this and these to the Lord.
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So the booty.
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Everything that David's getting from this, where is he putting it? Towards the temple.
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Yeah, that's how I would even say, as Mike just said, I would say into the, even though the temple's not used yet, but how we understand it, he would be putting it into the temple treasury.
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One day, which his son would build, he sees at this point, remember God told him, look, you can't do it, but I'm going to provide for you everything that you can put away so that your son can do it.
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Well, in this case, he's taken everything.
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What did all the other kings do when they took spoil? They took it for themselves.
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They took it for themselves.
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What do we see David do? He dedicates it to the Lord.
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Do you remember one of his first conquests when he went and he laid waste to those that came, the Amalekites came and they got them in Ziklag? Do you remember when he laid waste to that campsite that had hauled off? Do you remember what he did with all the goods? He sent it to all the people of Judah.
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He took everything that he had and he divvied it up.
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When he took that spoil, he passed it out to his friends or to family members or whatever to show that, hey, man, this is not a greedy man.
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He cares about his people.
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He has kind and compassionate towards the people of God whom he's entrusted and this is the kind of leader he's going to be.
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He's not going to be a self-serving one.
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He's not going to be a take, take, take.
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Yeah, he's not going to be a take, take, take.
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We see David as a give, give, give.
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And it says in verse 12 from Aram to Moab to the sons of Ammon and the Philistines and Amalek and from the spoils of Hadad as Ezra the son of Roab, the king of Zobah.
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Okay, so here it is.
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Zobah's way up there.
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See, it's at the northern, so remember, what I was saying earlier is you're going to go from there to the Amalekites which went all the way down here to the river and all the way over here to the Tigris and Euphrates which is on this side.
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There's the land.
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The guys that say, hey man, the land's not occupied yet or hasn't been subdued yet would have to really deal with the fact that even David, God tells David, I have subdued all of your enemies around you.
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I've put them under your footstool.
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He said it in the last chapter and now we see a summary of how God did that and through what mechanism he did that.
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Solomon even strengthened that.
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He did.
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Up until chapter 11 of Kings.
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Yeah.
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And we're actually going to deal with that here in just a minute because that is, he did strengthen that and Solomon, man, I don't think that took long for Solomon.
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He strengthened it very quickly but then we see that downfall very quickly because Solomon did go in there and the things that his dad had left into the hands of God to take care of, he used Solomon to kill those men basically.
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Joab, Shammai and some other guys that were at Nijah.
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So, that picks, we'll pick up now in verse 13.
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So David made a name for himself and he returned from killing, when he had returned from killing 18,000 Arameans in the Valley of Salt.
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All right.
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If you remember last week, what did God say that he was going to do for David? He'd say, I'm going to make a great name for you like all the other kings on the earth.
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He said, I'm going to make a great name for you.
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I'm going to make, you're going to be the biggest and the greatest and the best.
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And even now, when you hear even Jewish people talk, who is the person that's always talked about? King David.
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King David.
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King David.
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King David.
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One, David was God's choice for the monarchy from the beginning.
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It was not Saul.
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He judged his people by giving them Saul.
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If you remember that, okay, that's what you want.
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I'm going to show you exactly what you're going to get.
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And then he'd give them over.
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And then one of the prophets even says, I gave him to you to chastise you.
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It's talking about Saul.
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Now that David's there, we see that David was a man after God's choosing.
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God chose David.
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And therefore, God, David's going out, carrying out the agenda that God intended for it to take place.
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And we see that David and Josiah, I would say, are the only ones that don't go off any type of idolatry.
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Only two.
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Josiah, he, young boy, if you remember, he was eight years old when he was put in, basically had a conversion when he was 16.
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A couple years after that, then he goes, I mean, he goes through the city making a cleansing.
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He just goes through there and just starts wiping everything out.
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Taking the altar, burning it, grinding up the false prophet's bones and burning them on it.
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Getting the male homosexual prostitutes out of the temple complex.
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I mean, people think that there's homosexuality in the church today and that this is unprecedented.
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That's not true.
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It was there in the time of Josiah.
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It was in the time of the capture of Jerusalem from 66 to 70 A.D.
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There was homosexuality in men dressing up like women on the temple complex.
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Prostitutes and all of that.
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So if somebody said, this is, we're in an unprecedented time within the covenant people of God to see that, that's just not true.
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They just don't know history.
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I'm not saying it doesn't, we should make light of it.
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I'm just saying it's not, it's just not an accurate representation of history.
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So, the Valley of Salt would have been down here.
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The Valley of Salt would have been Edom.
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If we can go a little further, that would be at the base of the Dead Sea or the Salt Sea.
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And he put garrisons in Edom.
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Now this is the part where we'll have to go to Kings 11 and so we can figure out how this came, what happens right here and how this falls into Solomon being chastised.
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He put garrisons in Edom and all of Edom he put garrisons and all the Edomites became servants to David and the Lord helped, I prefer then the Lord preserved David wherever he went.
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Okay, so let's flip over to 1st Kings chapter 11.
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Basically, verses so we don't have to read all of the chapters.
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I do want to read a good section of it.
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Probably going to read from 14 on.
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But, verse 1 through I'd say verse 13 we see that God is reproving Solomon for marrying outside the covenant.
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Marrying pagan wives, royal wives were given to him and it's led him off into idolatry.
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It says that the Lord actually came to Solomon twice.
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Twice! And said, what you're doing is wrong.
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If you don't fix it, I'm going to punish you.
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And he didn't listen.
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And then that brings us to chapter 14.
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I mean verse 14.
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It says, and when the Lord raised up the adversary of Solomon, here listen to this, to Solomon, hey daddy Edomite, he was of the royal line of Edom, for he had come about.
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Now listen to this.
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This is an exposition of what took place in verses 13 and 14 of chapter 8.
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Of 2 Samuel.
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It says, he was of the royal line for it came about when David was in Edom that the commander of the army had gone out to bury the slain.
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And they struck down every male Edomite within Edom.
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For Joab had stayed in Israel.
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I'm sorry, for Joab and all of Israel stayed there six months until they cut down every male in Edom.
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So, when it says that he was, that they had set up a garrison in Edom, what was the reason for setting up the garrison? For six months? To nuke all the rest of the males.
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Dude, every, boy, every male, it didn't matter if he would have been 70, or seven months, they were getting the sword.
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And it says, that Joab and all of them, they stayed there six months, then Hadad fled to Egypt.
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And he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him.
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Okay, so we understand this.
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Under the providence of God, when Joab set up his little, his garrison to kill him, what happens? One guy of the royal line of the Edomites escapes with a few people, his servants.
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That would have been Hadad.
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This is cool how this works out.
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Verse 18.
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Then arose the Midianites, and they came to Paran, and they took men with them from Paran, and they came to Egypt.
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And they came to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and assigned him with food, and gave him land.
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So they run from the Edomites, flee from Joab, and being killed, and they wind up in Egypt, and the Pharaoh protects Hadad.
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It says, Now Hadad found great favor before Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage his sister and his own wife.
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She would be the sister of Tophanes, the queen.
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The sister of Tophanes bore him his son, Genuboth, whom Tephanes weaned in the house of Pharaoh.
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And Genuboth was in the house of Pharaoh among the sons of Pharaoh.
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But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David had slept, basically when David had died, and his fathers, and Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad went to Pharaoh and said, Send me away, that I may go back to my country.
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And when Pharaoh said to him, But what have you like with me here? Behold, you are seeking to go back to your own country.
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And he answered, Nothing.
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Nevertheless, you must surely let me go.
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God also raised up another adversary, Rizan, and the son of it, who fled from his lord, Hadadizr king of Zobah, and gathered them to his men and himself.
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And he became a leader in a marauding band after David slew them in Zobah.
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And they went to Damascus and stayed there and reigned in Damascus.
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So he was an adversary to all of Israel all the days of Solomon along with evil Hadad because he abhorred Israel and reigned over Aram.
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So you see what God did.
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He already told David, Look here, when your son leads them off into idolatry, I'm going to send an adversary from the surrounding nations and going to chastise him.
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Man, they thought they had wiped out all the Edomites in the providence of God.
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Why? Because you know that God decreed this was going to happen.
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Who did he raise back up to punish Solomon? The very enemies of God that hated him from the beginning going back to Jacob and Esau.
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And he raises that man up and he is the one that chastises for the rest of Solomon's life and you know, warring with them along with Reza and the others to basically give Solomon heartache.
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But it's interesting that we go, Man, well, what happened? Why would they set the garrison there? What would be the reasoning? Well, now we know.
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The reason for setting up the garrison in Edom was to kill every man that was there.
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Once again, we go, Man, that's tough.
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That's tough.
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Especially it's tough to go, in the Mosaic Law, what did it say they were supposed to do to the Edomites? They were supposed to treat them with kindness because they were your brother.
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That's what it said.
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But they were the archenemy of Israel.
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I mean, they were supposed to, Edom winds up being an Obadiah, winds up the prophet Obadiah, he actually makes a curse down on the Edomites.
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They were going to be wiped off the earth.
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But it was because they were not kind to Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.
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God says, I'm going to do that.
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It wasn't their responsibility to do that because under the Mosaic Law, he says, hey, you be kind to them.
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He even says, you be kind to the Egyptians.
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Even though they were your taskmasters and they were unruly to you, you be kind to them because you too, once in a while, were a sojourner in the land.
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It's just interesting that this, it seems somewhat disobedient on Joab's case to do what he's done.
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But was Joab following the orders of Yahweh or was Joab following every intent to keep David safe and keep him in power? I would say to keep David safe and keep him in power.
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I don't think Joab, by any stretch of the imagination, was a converted man because David already said these men were wicked, they were brutal, him and his brother Abishai.
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And he says God's going to deal with them one day.
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Yes, sir.
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So is this the fulfillment of chapter 7? Yes, sir.
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Where he says, he shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever and I will be his father and he shall be my son.
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If he committed iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men.
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Yep, that's it.
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That's the fulfillment.
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Because he, what did Solomon do? He didn't do anything.
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Actually, I think the New American Standard says when he does.
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And I think that's actually, if sometimes you go, well he might, he might not.
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But when, it says, look, this is without a doubt, this is what's going to happen.
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Yeah, it is a fulfillment.
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Since, yeah.
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Since he's going to lead them off into idolatry, this is what God's going to do.
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And Mike, and also even right now, these are heated areas in Israel.
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Oh, sure.
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Very heated.
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And it has to do over the land and who was there first and who thinks they have it.
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And yeah, it certainly goes back to skirmishes this time and even before.
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Yeah, this time and even before.
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It's interesting, too, how much of a name David had to these guys.
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They could have run.
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Well, they knew what David was going to do.
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The minute David died, it's like, oh, you know, the man of war, the one who, you know, the Lord preserved him everywhere he went.
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Now he's gone.
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It's just interesting that they could see that the Lord was preserving him.
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Yeah, and they knew that he was a ruthless man.
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Look, there's no way you can't go through some of this right here and go, David wasn't ruthless.
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And when we get towards the end of the book where you have the uprising with Absalom and Absalom thinks he can overthrow his dad, and we'll get into that part in a little more detail because I don't see any reason that David left the city in fear of Absalom.
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Look, man, there's only been two times we've seen David in fear.
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One, it's of Achish.
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And the other time, it was when he struck Uzzah dead.
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Only time.
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And then the prophet, when he goes to try to get some information from the prophet, the prophet says, let me tell you something, dude.
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Your dad will make men's heart melt with fear.
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Do you think you're going to go in there and you're going to overthrow him the way that you are? I mean, this is the prophet telling him.
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He says, your guys may act like lions now, but they're going to melt like women in battle.
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And it's like, man, this guy says even in David, what looks like he's fleeing from Absalom is actually running so that he didn't kill Absalom.
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They did melt.
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They did.
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You're right.
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They did.
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And they were fleeing so that he didn't have to strike Absalom down.
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That's why he was saying, hey man, whatever you do, just don't hurt the boy.
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Well, that was the description that was given of David.
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He was a man of blood.
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That's why he couldn't go to the temple, right? Yep, he was a man of blood.
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And God says, that's what I commissioned you to do.
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Now, just because God gave him the commission to go out and to slay his enemies, there are times, man, it would just seem a little overbearing.
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Like I said, the Bible's giving us a description, not a prescription of what was right or wrong at times.
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It's just telling us, hey, this is what David did.
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And it's also interesting to know how much he's talking about the prophet giving to Jeroboam, saying, hey, you're going to be taken to the temple.
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So I'm going to leave that one part.
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And he actually uses it as for, I'm making a principle today, just like for David, my servant.
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Like David, he had that name among men, but he also had that rapport with God.
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Oh, sure.
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If you go back, there's a time, I don't know if you remember when I was preaching a few weeks ago when God says God remembered David.
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Well, any time when God says he remembered, it was not like, hey, look, God forgot.
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He acted on something that he had already promised.
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And when it says that he remembered David, what did he do? He remembered the promise that he gave to David that somebody was thrown on his throne that he would protect him.
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And even with Solomon, he remembered David and the covenant he made with David.
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Therefore, he told Solomon, I'm not going to tear the kingdom from you.
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I'm going to tear it from your descendant and his friend.
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But you're right.
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David had a name no matter where he went and God protected him and God preserved him and God always points back to David as being the one that he made that covenant with.
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You're right.
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As the one.
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And Benjamin will come with you.
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For the sake of David.
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That's right.
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And verse 15, so David reigned over all of Israel.
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David administered.
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This points to our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And David administered justice and righteousness for all of his people.
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That is what Jesus Christ does for us.
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He administers justice and righteousness.
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And Joab, the son of Zariah, was over the army.
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Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahitho, was the recorder.
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The recorder is a weird Hebrew word.
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It could mean he was either the actual recorder of events, historian, or it could mean accountant and that we don't know.
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He was a very important person to David and this is the only time we hear about him.
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Zadok, the son of Ahitho, and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were the priests, and Zariah was the secretary.
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This is, like I said, in the reign of David, this is the only time we see two acting priests, high priests at the same time.
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I know we could argue the fact that what happened in Annas and Caiaphas, but that was because Annas had been deposed by Rome and Caiaphas put in his place.
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This was not an act of the monarchy.
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Remember, this is still a theocracy here and these two were working together.
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Abiathar will be deposed by Solomon, though.
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They were the acting priests.
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Benaiah, the son of Jehudah, was over the Cherithites and the Pelethites and David's sons were chief ministers.
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So here it is.
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We get, basically, a summary of who these men were.
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Benaiah was one of the valiant men of David, and so was Joab, and so was Abishai.
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But it's interesting.
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You get to the end and it says David's sons were chief ministers.
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David didn't just let his boys play.
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He actually put them in positions and gave them authority, which ultimately will lead to uprisings.
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It will lead to them- What's that? Attempted coup.
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Attempted coup, twice.
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You'll have the attempted coup with Absalom, which actually almost takes place.
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And then you have the one with Adonijah to where David, he's old and don't know what's going on, basically, and he tries to put himself in place.
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But yeah, you're right.
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He puts his kids in place, and then they take advantage of it.
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I would even say that Amnon, when he rapes Tamar, he puts himself in a position where he thinks nobody's going to do anything.
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Nobody's going to do anything.
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Nobody's going to do anything.
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And ultimately, there was some truth to that.
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David didn't do anything.
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But Absalom did.
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And I ain't saying what he did was right, but I understand.
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That'd be tough.
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You ever seen a movie, A Time to Kill? I get it.
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Yeah.
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Somebody raped my sister.
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It would be very difficult.
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Yeah, it'd be very difficult to not take care of that on the side.
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All right.
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We got a minute and a half.
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Any questions? Disagreements? When you look at that justice and equity, if you remember back during Saul, they were oppressively taxed.
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Yes.
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These people were.
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And from what I can understand from David's reign, he pretty well, because of all the spoils and everything, the treasury was fine.
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A lot of those taxes.
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Yeah, that's why David, when he wrote the psalm, and this is the false teachers and the false prophets and all this passage, and use it stupidly.
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David says, I have been young and I have been old, and I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread.
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Hey, under the time of David and under the time of Solomon, you're taught, dude, there wasn't a poor person in the city.
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Under the Mosaic Law, what did God say? There should not be a poor person among you before the blessings that I have given you.
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So when David said that, David wasn't making a statement that, hey, this is the health, wealth, prosperity gospel.
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He's just saying, look, I'm just giving you a right perception and a right description of his reign.
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Look, there was never anybody starving to death.
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There was never anybody poor.
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And we've never seen where God had forsaken under their kingdom.
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Yes, sir.
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It's interesting that Jesus will even, he even agrees with that in the passage on Caesar's tribute.
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He says the children should be free.
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He said, if you're getting taxed, the children should be free.
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That should come from those nations that you subdued.
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And that's what he did.
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He was pulling wealth from nations he subdued to support the kingdom and the children, the people of the land were free.
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And to see to it that they were taken well care of.
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Right.
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Because that was a picture of God lavishing on his people.
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Alright, Mike, you'll close us with prayer.
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Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time together and we pray, Lord, that as we study your word, that it would not simply be academic, but it would be life-changing and that we would be conformed more to the image of your Son.
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We pray that you'd be with Keith as he prepares to preach.
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Give him strength.
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Give him clarity.
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Use him, empty him of himself and fill him fresh and anew with your Spirit.
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And we thank you for Brother Mike as he's shared with us today.
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We pray that you continue to bless him as he brings your word.
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We pray that as we meet with you today, that our worship would be a sweet savor to you.
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For it's in Christ's name we pray.
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Amen.