2 Samuel 5:11-15

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July 3, 2023

Job 6:21-30

00:00: Well, that's what we're saying.
00:01: We had it over here.
00:02: We draw them over this way.
00:04: Mr.
00:04: Behr, will you open us up with a word of prayer? Yes, sir.
00:07: Heavenly Father, thank you for today.
00:08: Thank you for the time that we've come for you.
00:10: We've learned from your Word.
00:11: God has asked that we have receptive ears, and that you would give Brother Mike the words you have for us to hear.
00:15: In Jesus' name, amen.
00:17: Amen.
00:18: The last week we did start chapter 5 of 2 Samuel, so that's where we'll go.
00:24: And so the last, how things were, last week when I got home, and I said, it was Megan me, and she's like, that sounds like a sitcom.
00:38: So I'm going to, I think we got to the end of verse 10.
00:45: Just going to bring us up to speed.
00:48: Remember, Abner has been killed.
00:51: Ishebosheth has been killed.
00:52: So now Israel comes to David to make him king over all Israel.
00:57: Let's read the chapter real quick, and then we'll see how far we get.
01:01: I don't think we'll finish, but we might.
01:04: Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
01:10: And previously, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and in.
01:15: And the Lord said to you, you will be the one who will shepherd My people of Israel, and you will be the ruler over Israel.
01:21: So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them before the Lord at Hebron.
01:30: Then they anointed David king over Israel, and David was 30 years old when he became king, and he reigned 40 years at Hebron.
01:38: He reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned 33 years over all of Israel and Judah.
01:46: Now the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, and they said to David, You shall not come in here, but the blind and the lame will be able to turn you away, thinking that David could not enter.
02:00: And nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
02:06: David said on that day, Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul, through the water tower.
02:16: Therefore, they say, the blind and the lame shall not come up into the house.
02:21: So David lived in the stronghold and called that place the city of David.
02:25: And David built around from the Milo inward, and David became greater and greater, for the Lord of hosts was with him.
02:35: And then King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David.
02:38: He sent cedar trees, carpenters, stone masons, and they built a house for David.
02:42: And David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of the people of Israel.
02:51: And meanwhile, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem.
02:55: And after he came from Hebron, he had more sons and daughters were born to David.
03:01: Now these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem.
03:05: Shemua, Shobob, Nathan, Solomon, I'm sorry, Solomon, Ibahar, Elishu, Nepheg, Jephiah, Elishema, Eliada, and Eliphelit.
03:19: Now the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over all of Israel, and all the Philistines went up to seek out David.
03:26: And when David heard it, he went down to the stronghold.
03:29: Now the Philistines came, and they spread themselves out into the land of the valley of the Raphaim.
03:34: And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines, and will you give them into my hand? And the Lord said to David, Go up, for I am certainly going to give the Philistines into your hand.
03:48: So David came to Baal-perazin, and he defeated them there.
03:52: And he said, The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like the breakthrough of waters.
03:58: Therefore he named that place Baal-perazin.
04:01: They abandoned their idols there, so David and his men then carried them away.
04:07: Now the Philistines came up once again, and spread themselves out in the valley of Raphaim.
04:13: And then David inquired of the Lord, and he said, You shall not go directly up, but circle around behind them, and come up then through in front of the balsam trees.
04:24: And it shall be that when you hear the sound of marching in the top of the balsam trees, then you shall act promptly, for then the Lord will have gone out before you and struck the enemies of the Philistines' army.
04:37: And David did so, just as the Lord commanded, and struck down the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer.
04:45: Okay, so last week, David, he becomes king over all of Israel.
04:50: He unifies the kingdom.
04:51: So this is what he has been waiting for, for however long it was.
04:54: Those 21 years is kind of where I come up with.
04:56: He was on the run for 15 years, 7 years in Hebron.
05:00: Now he's able to unify the kingdom.
05:02: It's now a monarchy, and he is ruling and reigning all of it.
05:06: It's interesting, as soon as he does that, he goes back to where he took the head of Goliath, at the beginning of his rise to fame, per se.
05:20: He goes back to Jerusalem, which at the time would have been Jabez.
05:23: And you can go back and look in other books before this time, it was called Jabez.
05:28: And any time you see it, how you can tell when they changed the name Jerusalem, like in this case, does anybody say Jabez in there? Anybody say Jabez in chapter 5 or 6? Does it say Jerusalem? Does anybody say Jabez? Okay, it was actually Jabez.
05:48: It doesn't become Jerusalem until after David conquers it.
05:51: So if you go back and we were in Judges, in the beginning it talked about, I think it was in chapter 1, it talked about they went and they encamped, the Benjamites encamped with the Jebusites, which is today called Jerusalem.
06:08: So what he's saying is that's how you can tell the book of Judges was written after the time of David.
06:13: Why? Because the city was not named Jerusalem until after David.
06:18: That's how you do your chronology.
06:19: So he goes to Jerusalem.
06:23: It's funny, they say, we talked about this, he says, hey, even the blind and the lame, basically the crippled people, they're going to be able to keep you out, David.
06:36: Just a little tidbit of history.
06:38: I like history.
06:41: The Civil War, anybody know who John Sedgwick was? He was one of the four major generals that died.
06:46: He got shot in the Battle of Antietam.
06:50: He missed Fredericksburg.
06:52: But then he went to Spotsylvania, Virginia.
06:56: And there were sharpshooters from the Confederate.
07:00: And he's like, man, them guys are such a bad shot, they couldn't hit an elephant from here.
07:06: Last words he said.
07:07: And they shot him in the head.
07:10: So this is sort of the, they're mocking David, just like he was mocking the Confederate.
07:16: Hey, he's mocking, saying David can't come in here.
07:18: And what does David do? He goes right up a place that he knew.
07:21: He says, go up the water tunnel.
07:24: And my inference is that David had already planned to take that city by throwing the head over, so he knew of making strategic ways.
07:31: He knew there was a way to get in.
07:33: And if you go to 2 Chronicles, no, 1 Chronicles 11, there's the parallel passage of this.
07:40: This is how we know Joab becomes leader of the whole army.
07:43: He says, hey, whoever goes up the water tunnel first and strikes the first Jebusite, that man will be chief over my army.
07:50: Joab's the first one to do that.
07:51: So that's how Joab becomes the chief.
07:54: It's interesting that David, too, he doesn't take Joab, who's already been faithful to him at this point, and says, hey, I'm just going to make him king over everybody.
08:02: He gives everybody a free choice of saying, all right, man, here, now you have the guys that were following Abner.
08:08: My guys were following Joab.
08:10: Here's the opportunity.
08:11: The first one that goes up and strikes one of these dudes down, that's going to be my guy, and Joab's the first one.
08:18: So if y'all want to read the parallel passage, I think it's in 1 Chronicles 11.
08:23: Then we talked about the millow and inward.
08:28: What did yours say, Meg? Landfill or something? Is that what it is in verse 9? Okay.
08:41: Some say terraces.
08:43: Some say tower.
08:45: Some say citadel.
08:46: I don't believe it's the Citadel of David.
08:48: The Citadel of David or the Tower of David wasn't even built until the second century B.C., so I don't believe that's what it is.
08:54: Ultimately, we don't know where it is.
08:58: We know it's outside the inner part of the city, and then he built from there in, whether it was like the landfill where she said or whether it was just some strategic stronghold or a structure, which I lean more toward it being a structure because when you get into 1 Kings, when Solomon basically gets his kingdom torn away from him, he has to go and repair.
09:23: There was an insurrection that had arised up, and he had to go back to the millow and fix the damage that had been done.
09:29: So that would give me the understanding that it was an actual standing structure.
09:34: It's that he had to fill the holes in it.
09:36: So whether it was a wall, some type of tower, whatever it was, it was towards the outside of the city.
09:45: Then that brings us to where, once again, the famous saying that happened all through 1 Samuel, while was David great? The Lord was with him.
09:54: We see that same thing starting right here because the Lord was with him.
09:58: Now we see in verse 11 that Hiram, king of Tyre, why would he send messengers to David? Just...
10:09: Strategic alliances? Dude, he's going to conquer...
10:16: Tyre's up here.
10:18: That's actually the same name.
10:20: Sor is the same name.
10:22: Remember Tyre and Sidon is in the land of, what we would say, the land of Phoenicia.
10:28: But man, that really was part of their land that was given to them.
10:33: So we go, man, is he going to go...
10:36: My understanding is Hiram goes, hey man, David's going to be a guy that's going to make a conquest.
10:40: Before he does that, let me reach out and make a political move, because remember he's a pagan.
10:45: Let me make a political move and see if I can offer some, hey, I'm thankful how great you are, but you're a better king...
10:52: Basically flatter David.
10:54: And how does he do that? Well, he sends cedar trees and carpenters and stone masons, and they build a house for David.
11:01: It says in verse 12 that David then realized that the Lord had established him king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people.
11:10: Look how David points to God.
11:15: Who did this for David? The Lord did.
11:19: Hey, we could even go back earlier in the chapter when the people said, hey, you're the one that's going to shepherd my people.
11:28: Look, whose people were these people that David was leading? They weren't David's people.
11:35: They were the Lord's people.
11:36: He was going to shepherd God's people.
11:39: And he said here, he realized that David is the one that had established him as king, and it was the Lord that established him as king, and it was God that had exalted his kingdom for whose sake? His covenant people.
11:57: He didn't do it for David.
11:58: He didn't do it for anybody else, but he did it for God's covenant people.
12:02: Remember, even go back to the Abrahamic promise when he says, hey, they're going to go into the...
12:06: I mean, the Abrahamic...
12:08: He gives the covenant, but he says, hey, they're going to go into captivity for 430 years or 400 years, right? What does he say? I'm going to bring them out for my covenant that I have made with you.
12:20: Hey, they're going to go in.
12:22: They're going to be harshly treated, but I'm going to bring them out because of my covenant with Abraham.
12:27: And he's going to say, okay, then they're in captivity, and what does he tell Moses? I'm going to bring them out, and I'm going to make you the leader of them.
12:36: Why? Because of my covenant that I made with your forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the people.
12:44: That brings us to verse 13.
12:47: Now, this is where this can get a little weird.
12:52: Meanwhile, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem.
12:57: After he came from Hebron, he had more sons and daughters were born to David.
13:03: Alright, he conquered Jerusalem.
13:07: Who would have been in there? When he conquered Jerusalem, who was inside of it? What were they? Heathen.
13:16: The ones that couldn't be driven out.
13:19: They could be, but they refused.
13:20: Yeah, you're right.
13:21: But they could have been.
13:23: The Benjamites came in, and you can read this, I think it's in Judges chapter 1, verse 21, 23, somewhere around there, that the Benjamites came in.
13:31: Instead of running them out, they decided no big deal.
13:35: We're going to stay here with them.
13:37: So they were pagans.
13:38: What does it say David took in that land? Pagan wives.
13:44: Pagan wives.
13:46: He's taken him pagan wives, more concubines, and he did it from Jerusalem.
13:53: Now, do you remember the word that kind of characterized Saul's reign? Took.
14:04: What do we see the first time with David? His failure.
14:09: This is one of his failures.
14:12: And what did he do? He took the very thing that God said don't do.
14:15: Under the Mosaic legislation, were they able to take any...
14:21: I was going to put took again, but tooken.
14:24: Hey, were they able to took pagan wives? Why? Because then you don't want to be...
14:31: they'd bring in their gods and say, worship these? Yeah, they would bring in their pagan practices.
14:38: And I was asked the question a few weeks ago, you know, was this has to do with anything with David being unequally yoked.
14:46: So let me address that, so in case that person listens to this.
14:51: Unequally yoked is a New Testament idea that Paul uses in 2 Corinthians, I think, chapter 6.
15:00: Unequally yoked under the old covenant had nothing to do with two people being married.
15:05: It's in Deuteronomy 17.
15:06: It had to do with putting two...
15:09: an ox and a mule together, okay? It didn't have anything to do with marriage.
15:14: Their idea of marriage would not have been said, hey, you're unequally yoked.
15:18: It would have been like, you should be stoned because you married someone outside of the covenant.
15:25: Now, Paul does use that unequally yoked passage pointing back to the Old Testament, but it's not in the context of marriage.
15:35: Okay, it's not.
15:36: It's in the context, in 2 Corinthians, you have men coming in, some of the super apostles, calling into question Paul's integrity, I mean, his pedigree of who he was, okay? They were saying that he was not this great apostle.
15:54: Then he has to say, hey, man, I've done all these things.
15:56: Look, I've been...
15:58: He gives his pedigree of who he was, how he got to where he was at.
16:01: He says, I've been shipwrecked.
16:03: All these things, right? And then, those men are then trying to say that Paul's words and Paul's ministry is not valid.
16:12: And Paul says in the community of believers at the church of Corinth, do not be unequally yoked with those unbelievers.
16:22: That's what Paul is saying.
16:24: Now, we could have a conversation about if you want to apply that to marriage.
16:29: I don't, okay? So if y'all want to have that conversation, we can.
16:35: But don't apply that to marriage.
16:37: I think if you want to apply something to marriage, let's use a marriage passage, not a passage that has to do with yoking yourself together with unbelievers in some type of ministry.
16:51: Would you work with a Mormon in ministry? In ministry? No, why? Because you're working two opposite directions as far as salvifically.
17:04: That's what Paul is basically saying.
17:05: These guys aren't heading in the same direction that you are.
17:08: Therefore, do not be yoked together with them.
17:11: And if you want to say, hey, we shouldn't be yoked together with unbelievers and use that passage for marriage, just think this in your mind.
17:19: You have to use that across the board.
17:22: I'm going to pull your money out of the banks.
17:25: I'm going to pull anything that you have invested in that promote anything other than Christian idea.
17:32: Okay? So if you want to use something, hey, we should marry believers, then go to the passages that talk about marriage and say, marry in the Lord.
17:40: Okay? Let's use those.
17:42: Alright.
17:43: So, David takes concubines and wives that are pagans.
17:49: Has he already taken a pagan wife in Hebron? Think back.
17:56: Wasn't it Nabal's wife that he got? She was a Jezreelitess.
18:00: She would have been here.
18:02: Some of them have been here.
18:02: She's in Jezreel.
18:03: Oh, up here.
18:05: Yeah, she was a Jezreelitess.
18:08: But if you remember Absalom, we talked just briefly about that.
18:11: Remember we said Ammon, and he was the one that sets up, he said, I said, I like the word set up.
18:15: He does rape her, but he sets up the whole thing, and we'll get to that too.
18:19: He sets up the whole thing.
18:20: It wasn't just an opportunity of rape.
18:23: He actually sets it up.
18:25: He was actually married to a real Israelite wife, but Absalom, Absalom was married to the king of Gesher's daughter.
18:36: You remember when we talked about that, it had his list in Hebron.
18:39: As we get to the conspiracy, when he fights David, or goes against David's men, he runs right before the conspiracy gets hot, and he finds safety in Gesher.
18:49: If you're reading that, and you go, wait a minute, why did he go there? Because that was granddaddy.
18:55: That's why he went there.
18:56: So Absalom was born to a pagan wife, Hegeth, I think.
19:02: You can go back over there.
19:06: When he, let's see.
19:08: I think that's who it was.
19:16: Yeah, in chapter 3.
19:22: I'm sorry, it was Machah, the daughter of Talmah, king of Gesher.
19:27: That's who Absalom was born to.
19:31: Adonijah was born to Hegeth, and he tries to overthrow the throne too at the end of David's life.
19:38: So, now it says in verse 14, now these were the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem.
19:50: Shemua, Shobob, Nathan, Solomon, Ibahar, Elishu, Naphag, Japhia, Elishamah, Eliadah, and Eliphelet.
20:02: Okay, all of these were the ones that were born to him in Jerusalem.
20:09: Do we know anything about any of these names? Who do we recognize? Okay, Solomon.
20:18: What do we know about Solomon? His mother was Bathsheba, right? Yes, sir.
20:26: So Solomon, I'm in the crack.
20:35: Solomon.
20:36: Who else in there have we heard of as it unfolds? We see the word Nathan, but Nathan was a prophet.
20:49: I think that's a separate guy.
20:50: It is a separate guy, but you're right.
20:52: You're onto something.
20:52: We do hear Nathan.
20:54: And this is where this can open up a good discussion.
21:04: Nathan ends up in the genealogies.
21:08: So if you have the genealogies in Matthew, right? Two genealogies and we're in the New Testament.
21:13: Remember? Matthew and Luke.
21:18: Matthew follows this line.
21:22: Luke follows this line.
21:26: The common idea of those two, and we can flip over there if you want.
21:31: So you can say, hey Mike, I think you're fibbing.
21:40: Matthew chapter 1.
21:46: You can read it begins with Abraham in chapter 1 of Matthew.
21:52: Abraham was the father of Isaac.
21:54: Isaac, Jacob.
21:55: Jacob, Judah, and his brothers.
21:58: Judah was the father of Perez.
22:01: Zerah by Tamar.
22:03: Perez was the father of Hezron.
22:05: Hezron the father of Ram.
22:07: Ram was the father of Amenadab.
22:08: I'm sorry, Amenadab.
22:10: Amenadab the father of Nahashon.
22:12: Nahashon the father of Salmon.
22:15: Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab.
22:19: Boaz was the father of Obed by Ruth.
22:23: Obed was the father of Jesse.
22:26: Jesse was the father of David the king.
22:29: We all agree on that, right? There it is.
22:32: And it says here, David was the father of Solomon by Bathsheba who was the wife of Uriah.
22:38: Solomon was the father of Rehoboam.
22:42: And you just follow all the way that down.
22:44: And that takes us to Christ.
22:47: But if you go over to, I think it's in Luke 3.
22:51: Yeah.
22:55: I've got to turn the AC on.
22:58: Sorry, Mike.
22:59: I turned it on so I wouldn't freeze out.
23:07: But I'm wanting to take my shirt off.
23:10: It's hot in here.
23:14: And then you get to, it starts in, I think verse 23.
23:22: It says, And he began his ministry, and Jesus himself was about thirty years of age, being as one supposed by the son of Joseph.
23:32: Why would it say supposed the one of Joseph? Just...
23:37: Because from the people's idea, that was Joseph's son out of wedlock most likely.
23:43: But they're saying, look man, this is the supposed, the real father of Jesus was who? The Lord.
23:49: God.
23:49: Yeah.
23:51: The son of Joseph.
23:52: The son of Eli.
23:54: The son of Matahat.
23:56: The son of Levi.
23:57: The son of Melchi.
23:59: The son of Janiah.
24:01: The son of Joseph.
24:02: The son of Matathias.
24:06: The son of Amos.
24:07: The son of Nahum.
24:08: The son of Hesla.
24:11: The son of Nagai.
24:13: The son of Moth.
24:15: The son of Matathias.
24:18: The son of Samion.
24:20: The son of Joseph.
24:22: The son of Jodah.
24:23: The son of Jonan.
24:24: The son of Rahasa.
24:26: The son of Zerubbabel.
24:28: Who was Zerubbabel? Anybody remember who Zerubbabel was? Who was here for the conference? Anybody? Zerubbabel was a very instrumental person in getting the people as the governor of Judah when they came back in the land after the exile.
24:45: He rebuilt the temple.
24:46: We often don't think about, we only think of two temples.
24:49: We think of Solomon's Temple and Herod's Temple.
24:51: But Zerubbabel's the one that came in at the time of Haggai.
24:57: He laid the foundations and it lay dormant for a little while for 16, 15, 16 years and he had to get rebuked by the prophet Haggai and then they wound up finishing building the temple.
25:06: That was Zerubbabel.
25:07: Once again, that's of the line of Judah so that makes him qualified to be a governor over the land of Jerusalem.
25:15: The son of Sheltiel.
25:17: The son of Neriah.
25:18: The son of Melchi.
25:19: The son of Addi.
25:21: The son of Cosimon.
25:22: The son of Elamah.
25:24: The son of Er.
25:25: The son of Joshua.
25:26: The son of Eleazar.
25:27: The son of Joram.
25:28: The son of Matahat.
25:29: The son of Levi.
25:30: The son of Simon.
25:31: Judah.
25:32: Joseph.
25:33: The son of Eliakim.
25:36: The son of Malia.
25:38: Yeah, Malia.
25:39: The son of Menah.
25:40: The son of Matahothah.
25:43: The son of Nathan.
25:45: What does it say? Son of David.
25:49: It was the son of Jesse.
25:50: So, the easiest way that they have tried to, scholars have tried to make this easy is to say that in Matthew's passage this was Joseph's line and then Nathan ends up in, I'm sorry, this is going to be Matthew.
26:17: This was Mary's line.
26:21: Just for argument's sake.
26:23: Did it say that in Luke? Did it? I don't know.
26:29: I don't know what y'all want.
26:30: I was on vacation at Bible school and listening to preachers and they get to that and they go, oh yeah, they were from the same clan.
26:39: Therefore, Luke's passage is talking about Mary and Joseph's line is in Matthew because it follows Solomon.
26:47: That's not what the text says.
26:50: I think both of these are speaking of Joseph.
26:59: Now, we don't know for sure, okay? So, if you're sitting here today and you say, hey, I think it's Mary.
27:09: I'm not going to argue with you or arm wrestle you over it, okay? If that's the position that you hold, but we have to say the text doesn't say that.
27:18: But, what we do have, there was a man by the name of Africanus.
27:22: I was going to write his name, but it's funny to spell.
27:25: It's not like Reagan.
27:26: His name's Africanus in 225 A.D.
27:30: He said in church history, it was understood when you get back to Luke 3.
27:41: Remember, this little guy had been second, third century writing.
27:46: Hey, they were trying to deal with this same issue in the text.
27:49: Hey, why are there two different names? Well, when you get to Luke, he says, when you get to Melchi, you have the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janiah, the son of Joseph.
28:14: Excuse me, y'all.
28:16: The son of Joseph, Matthanias.
28:20: He is saying that Melchi and Eli was understood by oral transmission.
28:31: Nathan ends up being in that because Melchi and Eli would actually...
28:36: Does somebody's pass say Eleazar? Anybody? It all says Eli.
28:41: Which verse? Verse 29? In Luke? In Luke, yeah, but I don't know which verse.
28:48: Well, it has an Eleazar in it, but it says verse 29.
28:51: Yeah, that would have been it up there at the top towards the beginning from Joseph.
28:56: Mine says Eli.
28:58: Hold on just a second.
29:01: I'm sorry, 24? 23? Does anybody say Eleazar? Mine says Eli.
29:10: Does everybody say Eli? Verse 24, mine says Levi.
29:13: All right, back up one word.
29:16: Mine says Levi.
29:18: 23, end of 23? Eli.
29:20: Everybody says Eli? Eli.
29:22: End of N-E-L-C-H-I.
29:26: Everybody says Eli? Verse 23? Chapter 3, verse 23, Luke? 24.
29:34: H-E-L-I.
29:35: Okay, H-E-L-I.
29:37: Okay, he's saying from there to Melchi, which is in verse 24, there was a leverite marriage and that was understood.
29:46: That's what he said.
29:48: Now, that would make more sense than going, hey, Nathan ends up being part of Mary's line.
29:57: That doesn't even follow really good sense, does it? Logically, it does not.
30:04: Because how many women do we have in Jesus' genealogy? Anybody remember? Rahab.
30:15: Ruth.
30:15: Who else? She's referred to as the wife of Erias.
30:20: Right.
30:21: Yep.
30:22: Right.
30:23: And there's four.
30:25: But Mary's not one of them.
30:28: And it's interesting that if what this guy, Sexton Africanus, what he is saying is true, it would have even been understood that in the first century, at the time around Jesus, leverite marriage was still being enforced and being used to carry on the seed of his brother.
30:49: Now, how did Ruth end up? Think about that.
30:57: Chainsman and Redeemer.
30:58: Chainsman and Redeemer.
30:59: Leverite marriage.
31:01: So, I don't...
31:03: This is me.
31:04: Hey, if you want to use this and you say, hey, I think it was Mary, good.
31:09: Bless your heart.
31:11: I think a better understanding of it is the leverite marriage.
31:17: Because Mary is not explicitly said as this being her clan, nor is she listed in the genealogy other than this being his mother.
31:26: So, it doesn't give her a list of people.
31:29: So, if you get in an argument with somebody about that, which you probably won't.
31:34: Y'all probably didn't think about that either, did you? If you get in an argument with somebody about it, that's how Nathan winds up being listed is because he is a descendant of David.
31:45: Church history, understand, tradition, believes that this is how it ended up in there.
31:51: And if anybody wants the document, I can either forward it to you, send you the link to the paper.
31:58: And actually, you have the actual document that's been translated into English from Sexton Africanus in 225 A.D.
32:07: or whatever it was.
32:10: That leads us to not knowing really anything about any of the other guys to amount to anything.
32:15: But we do know this, that it says that David's, once we get further on, I think it's in Chronicles and in Kings, it talks about, and David's men were leaders in his army.
32:31: So, I mean, David took care of his boys.
32:33: Yes, sir? I'm just having a question.
32:35: I'm just reading this.
32:36: I haven't done a lot of research on Bathsheba, but was she in Israelite? Yeah.
32:42: That's going to be interesting, too, when we get to that, because Uriah is a Hittite.
32:47: But we do know this, let the cat out of the bag, he was a godly man.
32:51: So what do we know, just right off rip, when he comes home and he tries to get him drunk to go home and sleep with his wife, he says something that a lot of times we just overlook and go, well, it's just because he's an Israelite being faithful to David.
33:08: But he says, how can I go when, as he sings, you're here, my people are out there, in the ark of the Lord.
33:16: The ark of the Lord.
33:17: So that tells you what Uriah thought about God.
33:22: He actually held to a high view of who God was, the covenant people.
33:26: Now, was he a proselyte? Most likely.
33:30: Yeah.
33:31: I mean, proselytes, what happened to proselytes? They actually were circumcised.
33:36: God-fears weren't.
33:38: God-fears said, okay, you're putting the blade down there, I'm going to pump the brakes.
33:44: But God-fears were circumcised.
33:46: And that's what I do believe Uriah was.
33:50: That's interesting, because I was thinking, because we were saying that a lot of these might have been women outside of the covenant, but it's interesting if these, because it's not in chronological order.
34:01: We know that Bathsheba, she was obviously, we now know that she was an Israelite.
34:06: Yep.
34:06: So some of these other ones, moms could have been, but we just don't know because we don't know much about them.
34:10: Not really, but do you know this, do you know when we get to that, the famous thing about David, and he comes and it says that the baby dies.
34:19: The baby dies.
34:20: It says he then goes into Bathsheba and she conceives and has Solomon.
34:26: That's not strict chronological, because if you know what happens, and we're going to talk about that as we get further on in the book, that's actually the fourth one of Bathsheba.
34:36: Yeah.
34:37: But when you're reading it, remember sometimes, and that bothers me to no end, that the biblical writers don't, oh man, it drives me insane.
34:49: My mind works in straight lines.
34:50: I want things linear.
34:52: Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
34:53: No, they don't do like that.
34:55: Sometimes they'll go, hey, for point purposes, Bathsheba's baby dies, they shoot over here, David begins to conceive Solomon.
35:04: Well, why does she conceive Solomon? Why do you think the book tells us she conceived Solomon? Because it's setting up, remember this narrator, not only inspired by the Holy Spirit, but it's setting up Solomon's going to be the guy.
35:18: Solomon's going to be the guy.
35:20: And while I'm a little bit of house cleaning, we were talking about those that were anointed, kings that were anointed by God.
35:31: And remember, me and you talked a couple, actually about six months ago, I want to do a sensitization or harmonization of chronicles and kings.
35:43: So I'm trying to do all the legwork and that is difficult, man.
35:46: It is trying, because you want to put everything kind of in chronological order.
35:50: It actually, David was called by God to be king.
35:55: There's two other people that were anointed by oil, with a horn of oil, that were called by God.
36:01: And you don't know that until you get into Chronicles chapter 29 and it's Solomon's called by God.
36:08: He's not the oldest? No.
36:11: But when we're reading through, when we're going through, and we've got to close up here in a couple of minutes.
36:16: As we're going through 2 Samuel, when we get to that section of him having Solomon, she gets impregnated with Solomon and you get towards the end of the book and there's this uprising and you get to 1 Kings and Bathsheba comes to David and says, hey man, you've got Adonijah out there running with chariots and all.
36:40: He said he's going to be on the throne.
36:42: You told me that Solomon was...
36:45: Well, I don't know about y'all, but when we read that, we go where? And you start flipping back.
36:49: We have no idea.
36:51: But obviously there was a conversation there and then Nathan comes in and affirms that, hey, this is what you said.
36:58: And then as you're reading on through Chronicles, as you're getting how things unfold, you get to Chronicles chapter 29 and it says that David says it was God that called Solomon.
37:11: It was God that called Solomon.
37:13: And then he calls Zadok.
37:15: Remember who Zadok was? The priest.
37:17: He calls Zadok in and says you need to anoint him with oil because this is how it should be done based on what we've got.
37:22: So you have two people that are anointed twice.
37:26: David and Solomon.
37:28: And then there's another guy that was called by God in the northern kingdom.
37:32: Jehu.
37:33: That's a little weird because it was in the northern kingdom when the kingdom was split.
37:38: But God says you go anoint this guy and you anoint him with oil.
37:43: He tells Elijah to do it.
37:44: Elijah never does it.
37:45: One of his disciples.
37:46: Real weird.
37:47: I don't quite understand.
37:48: I just don't understand when I say weird.
37:50: I just don't understand when you're reading it you're trying to figure out well why? Why did this take place? He goes and does cleanup on Jezebel's house.
37:58: Yeah.
37:58: That's what happens.
38:00: So.
38:01: We don't know anything more about these guys other than Solomon and Nathan and the generalization that these men were most likely in his army.
38:10: Now.
38:13: Last week we saw David unify the kingdom.
38:25: So.
38:25: We now have God's people under one king.
38:33: Going to be under one nation.
38:40: In a central city.
38:42: I keep falling on the crack.
38:47: Central city which would have been Jerusalem.
38:52: Do you see the development of what's taking place? God's man is now in God's city under one nation.
39:05: That's what God's doing.
39:06: God is fulfilling his purposes that he said early on that he was going to be with his people and he was going to dwell with his people.
39:16: Well.
39:17: How long has it been since God had dwelled with his people? Think about that for a second.
39:22: I sound like Joe Biden.
39:23: Think about it.
39:24: Think about what you think about.
39:27: Really.
39:29: How long has it been since God had dwelled in the midst of his people? We can say at least 67 years.
39:39: Okay.
39:39: At least 67 years.
39:40: Do you remember back in 1 Samuel the ark had got hauled away and the fire killed and then it hot potated around, right? Came back came back to I forget the name of that city.
39:55: Killed a bunch of people because they looked inside of it.
39:58: Then they said, Hey, send it to Kiriath Gerium.
40:01: Went there.
40:02: 20 years.
40:03: There.
40:04: Then it went from there to Abinadab's house on the hill.
40:07: Right? That's been 67 years.
40:10: And when we get to that in chapter 6 I'll show you how all that works out.
40:13: 67 years based on what this says.
40:15: 67 years that God has not dwelt in the midst of his people.
40:18: Well, they can come around.
40:19: Well, now God's got his rightful man which was not Saul.
40:23: It was David.
40:25: He's got the unified nation in a central located place in the city.
40:31: And David says, Now it's time to bring back from Kiriath Gerium Kiriath Gerium we're going to have to bring God's people God's man God's city where God can dwell in the midst of his people.
40:47: That sets up this word last week that we saw first time used in Scripture Zion.
40:59: First time it was ever used last week.
41:02: Zion is a theological term that encapsulates let me put this down here and we'll get to this and we've got to get it.
41:12: All this.
41:19: Zion encapsulates all that.
41:21: Every one of that is theological.
41:22: I want you to know that.
41:24: Every one of that.
41:25: God's King Who does David point to? Christ.
41:29: As a matter of fact when we get into other parts of the Chronicles and all that not that I'm going to try to teach you that.
41:34: We get into that it talks about David.
41:37: David's going to sit on the throne.
41:39: Man, David's been dead 400 years when you get to some of that stuff.
41:41: So how can David sit on the throne? Because it's pointing to someone greater.
41:45: Well, what is the nation of Israel typological of? People of Christ the Savior.
41:54: Last week Meg and me did the elect of God.
41:59: Because the nation of people was elected in the Old Testament.
42:03: And then we've got to go.
42:06: And the central city is Jerusalem.
42:11: Where's the king going to rule and reign from during the time of the kings? From here.
42:18: Yeah.
42:19: Zion.
42:20: Hey, read through the Psalms.
42:22: How many times is Zion talked about in the Psalms? And it's where God's king is.
42:28: It's where God's people is.
42:30: It's the city of God where His people will dwell.
42:33: And why does it say Zion dwell in the city? Because that's where God's people.
42:37: I mean, that's where God dwells.
42:39: Hey, Zion is a place where God can be with His people and be fully protected.
42:43: Fully taken care of.
42:45: And under the full covering of God.
42:47: Hey, and as long as the people of God did what God told them to do under the law, right? Were they protected in Zion? Yes.
42:56: Hey, remember all this is typological.
42:58: Real stuff though.
42:59: I want you to understand.
43:00: Real kings.
43:01: Real nation.
43:02: Real city.
43:04: A real dwelling place of God which would be the Ark.
43:06: But all that points to something bigger and greater.
43:09: Which would be one, the greatest king of kings and Lord of lords who would be the king that would rule and reign forever.
43:14: The one nation which is typological of the people of God which would be Israel pointed greater which would bring in the elect of God.
43:25: Jew and Gentile which would be the church.
43:27: We could actually put that here.
43:31: Remember, this is all developing over redemptive history.
43:34: And the central city would be Jerusalem.
43:38: What comes down in the last book? In the last couple of chapters.
43:43: What comes down? The holy city.
43:45: What's it called? Jerusalem.
43:46: But why is it called Jerusalem? Because this is the new Zion.
43:52: The new Zion.
43:53: Hey, this under the old covenant up until Christ comes and destroys the temple was a dwelling place of God within everybody.
44:03: No, it was in a little box.
44:06: You know, ten by ten cube that hovered over the Ark of the Covenant.
44:12: And we got to go.
44:14: Michael, will you close for us? Dear Lord, we thank You for this time to study Your Word.
44:20: We pray, Lord, that we would know You better and in knowing You better we would love You more.
44:24: We pray that You would be with Keith as he prepares to bring Your Word.
44:29: And we pray that You would be with us as we come to worship You who alone are worthy of it.
44:34: For it's in Christ that we pray.
44:35: Amen.