2 Samuel 2:1-7

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Mike, would you open us up with a word of prayer? Dear Lord, we thank you for your love for us.

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We thank you for bringing us here this day and giving us health and strength and a desire to be in your house.

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We pray that you'd be with our brother as he opens your word.

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We pray that you'd speak through him and use him to help us to understand your word more and to love you more.

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For it's in Christ that we pray.

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Amen.

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Well, let's go to 2 Samuel.

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I do want to say thank you, Mike, for filling in for me.

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I appreciate it.

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And I do have a pathway of getting through this book.

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I don't know if it will go a chapter at a time.

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Now that I'm constrained to not have to be finished like I agreed to get through the book in 32 to 33 weeks.

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Now I don't know if I'm going to do that.

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So I promise we won't be here two years.

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Yeah, not going to be here two years because I do know where I'm going from here.

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And it's not Kings and it ain't Chronicles, just to let you know.

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I do have a plan to go somewhere else when we finish this.

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So I do want to get through that.

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So my plan is to be done with 2 Samuel by the end of the year, maybe by...

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So that's my plan.

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We'll see what happens though.

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We'll have some stops along the way.

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Well, let's read chapter 2.

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And then we'll start walking through the text.

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It said, and it came about that afterwards that David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up to the cities of Judah? And the Lord said to him, Go up.

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And David said, Where shall I go up? And he said, You go up to Hebron.

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So David went up there, him and his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite.

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And David brought his men who were with him and his household, and their households and his households with them, and they lived in the cities of Hebron.

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Then the men of Judah came, and they anointed David king over the house of Judah.

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And they told David, saying, It was the men of Jabesh-Gilead who buried Saul.

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And David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-Gilead and said to them, May you be blessed of the Lord, because you have shown the kindness to Saul, your Lord, and have buried him.

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Now may the Lord show kindness and truth to you, and I also will show this kindness and goodness to you as well, because of what you have done in this thing.

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Now therefore, let your hands be strong and be valiant, for Saul, your Lord, is dead, and also the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.

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But Abner, the son of Nir, the commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, and he brought him over to Manaheim, and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ershurites, and over Jezreel, and over the Ephraimites, and over Benjamin, and even over all of Israel.

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And Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he was king for two years.

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And the house of Judah, however, followed David.

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The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

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Now Abner, the son of Nir, went out to Manaheim, to Gibeon, and the servants of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, and Joab, the son of Zeriah, the servants of David, went out, and they met him by the pool of Gibeon, and they sat down, some of them on one side, one of them on the other, of the pool.

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And Abner said to Joab, Now, let the young men arise, and hold a contest before us.

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And Joab said, Let them arise.

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So they arose, and went over by count twelve for Benjamin, and Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, and twelve for the servants of David.

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And each one of them seized his opponent by the head, and they thrust their sword in his opponent's side, and they fell down together there.

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Therefore the place was called Helikoth Hazarim, which is in Gibeon.

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And some of your translations there may say field of knives or something along that line.

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Does anybody say that? Sharp swords? Okay.

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And that day the battle was very severe, and Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.

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Now the three sons of Zeriah were there, and Joab, Abishai, and Asahel.

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And Asahel was a swift-footed man.

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He was like a gazelle.

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Asahel pursued Abner, and did not turn to the right nor to the left, and following after Abner.

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And Abner then looked behind him, and he says, Is that you, Asahel? And he answered, It is I.

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So Abner said to him, Turn to your right or to your left, and you take hold of one of those younger men yourself.

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And take for yourself their spoil.

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But Asahel would not listen, and he would not turn aside from following after Abner.

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But Abner repeatedly again said to Asahel, Please turn aside and stop from following.

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Should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face toward your brother, Joab? However, he refused to turn to the side, or to the left or to the right.

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Therefore, Abner struck him in the belly with the butt end of his spear, so that the spear came out of his back, and he fell there, and he died in that spot.

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And it came about that all who came to that place where Asahel had fallen had died.

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They stood still.

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But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner.

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And when the sun was going down, they came to the hill of Ammah, which is in front of Gaia, by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

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And the sons of Benjamin gathered together behind Abner, and became one band.

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And they stood at the top of a certain hill.

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And Abner called to Joab, and he said, Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that if it would be bitter in the end, how long will you refrain from telling the people to turn back from following their brothers? Joab says, As God lives, if you had not spoken surely then the people would have gone away in the morning, leaving each one following after his brother.

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So Joab blew the trumpet, and the men halted the pursuit of Israel no longer, nor did they continue to fight any more.

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Abner and his men then went through Arabah that night.

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So they crossed over the Jordan, and they walked all morning, and they came to Manaheim.

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And then Joab returned from following Abner, and when he had gathered all the people together, 19 of David's servants besides Asahel were missing, but the servants of David had struck down from Benjamin and Abner's men so that there were 360 men had died.

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And they took up Asahel, and they buried him in his father's tomb, which is in Bethlehem.

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And Joab and his men went all night until they had dawned, until they reached Hebron.

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Well, Mike said, Long live the king.

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And my question to you guys, which king? You see now, based on what has taken place, we have splintered into two.

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We have a civil war, and as we walk through that, we're going to see where the allegiances lie for political power.

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Hey, as we get into the latter parts of this, this is absolutely, to me, breathtaking, because you go, Man, we're seeing men struggle for power, their own position, desires to make their own desires known, instead of following the Lord, which is what David wants to do.

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Last week, we saw David, knowing that Saul had died and Jonathan died, he made a great lament.

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And he wrote that poem or the dirge that Mike walked through very well, showing that he cared about Jonathan.

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He cared about Saul.

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Hey, look at God's chosen king, okay? God's chosen king.

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Remember, David's not king yet.

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And how did he respond to his friend and his brother Jonathan when he died? How did he respond? He was grieved.

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He was grieved.

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How did he respond to his enemy? He was very sad.

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He was angry that they killed.

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Not yet.

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Hang on.

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I'm going to get to the Malachi coming.

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Yeah, he was saddened that his enemy, the man that had pursued him for 12, 15 years, however we want to say that, okay, how he pursued him for that long.

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And when he had died, he was grieved.

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And then what did he say about Saul's character? Yeah.

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Did he ever say anything bad about Saul? Would we have been that way? Would we? No.

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We would have said bad things about him.

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Like, man, that old codger chased me for 12 years.

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He gave me his daughter.

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Then he took her back and he's now giving them to somebody else.

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I've been running on my life, running for all this time, and now I'm glad he's dead.

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Now I can be king.

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But that's not what David did.

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David actually grieved over the loss of Jonathan.

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He grieved over the loss of Saul.

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I do believe that he grieved over the loss of Saul in many ways because he knew that Saul was rejected by God.

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I do believe that.

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I do believe that he knew that he was God's rejected king.

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And how do we know that? Because while Saul was still king, God come and anointed us a little shepherd boy.

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So let's walk through the text and we'll see how far we get.

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We ain't going to get through it, I don't think.

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So we'll figure out where to land it and we'll stop there.

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Then it came about afterwards that David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up to one of the cities of Judah? What do we see right off the beginning that David's doing different than what he did when he was being chased by Saul? Yeah, he asked God, What do you want me to do? And we go back into the end of 1 Samuel.

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What did he do when he hit rock bottom? He inquired of the Lord.

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He learned from it.

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I'm sorry.

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Yeah, he inquired of the Lord through Abiathar.

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Yeah, he inquired of Abiathar, which Abiathar would have been the one who would have had to give him an aetherium or the dice, whatever you want to call it.

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And however he responded with Abiathar, that was.

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But in this case, we don't know what mechanism he used.

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We don't know.

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Did he call Abiathar? We don't know.

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We know this.

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He inquired of the Lord and the Lord spoke to him.

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What makes him different in chapter 2 than Saul through most of all of the book of 1 Samuel? When Saul called out to God, did he answer him? What did Saul actually say? I've asked for him through the Urim and the Thurim.

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I've asked through the priest.

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I've inquired of him and the Lord speaks to me not.

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And that's why I have called up today you, Samuel, to talk to me.

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And Samuel said, hey, why am I going to give you any other instructions or anything different than I have before? But we see David here.

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He inquires of the Lord and he says, hey, remember, when he ran across to go to the Philistines, did he ask the Lord where he should go? No.

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And where did he wind up going? Going to pagan land.

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Twice going to pagan land.

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Then he went once, he ran again, and where did he go? Right back to the same pagan land and the same king in which he deceived the first time.

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In this case, David doesn't do anything, but he inquires of the Lord.

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He says, he inquired of the Lord, say, shall I go up to one of the cities of Judah? And the Lord answers him, go up.

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And he didn't just pack up his stuff and go.

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What did he say next? Where? Where? Where? So we see now God's anointed king who's not been coronated king yet.

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Remember, there's a big difference.

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You have the king who's saying, okay, what are my next steps? God has made me king or anointed me king.

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Where am I going to go from here? How shall I go about what I'm supposed to do so that I'm not doing it in error? And what does he do? He says, where shall I go? And here's what God says, go to Hebron.

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So, he would have been, my eyeballs are all down there.

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Yeah, he's here.

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Okay, he's in Ziklag.

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He's telling him to go to Hebron, which is here.

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So he's going to take all of his family, all of those men.

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Look, we know this.

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He had at least, at least 18,000 people.

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I mean, 18,000.

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1,800.

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1,800.

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If it was a man, his wife, and a kid, that's at least three, and there was 600 men.

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So we know there's at least 1,800.

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I would imagine there was more.

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He probably picked up some along the way and certainly had a bunch of sheep and a bunch of cattle.

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So imagine, this just isn't going to happen like hopping in the car and going.

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I mean, they're going to herd sheep and cattle and all that to get to Hebron.

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But it's interesting that he says, go to Hebron.

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What do we know about Hebron? Anybody? Just tell me, what do we know about Hebron? It would be the city of a king.

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But if you go back to, I think it's Genesis chapter 13, after the call of Abraham.

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Remember, he calls him out of Ur-Qaldis.

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He leaves.

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He makes his way.

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He stops near Bethel.

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He then goes to Egypt.

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Remember, he tells them it's his sister.

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And then they wind up wanting to sleep with his wife.

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He actually finds out and says, hey, why did you deceive me? Then he leaves there and he goes by Bethel and Ai again.

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But then he settles with all of the riches and all of the stuff that he had been given to him by Egypt.

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He settles in Hebron.

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It is at Hebron where he would have the covenant reaffirmed to him.

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It's at Hebron where him and Lot would have their disagreement as to where to go and where did Lot go.

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Everybody remember? Pitched his tent towards Sodom.

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And where did Abraham go? He went to Hebron.

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Then it's at Hebron where the three angels come to him and he says, hey, the promised child will be with you right here next year.

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Then they leave and you can see the little hiccup along.

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And then you go, well, man, he's leaving.

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And he leaves Hebron and he goes to Abimelech land.

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You remember that? He does the same silly scheme that he did.

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Just a couple of chapters before and he deceives him and says that to his sister.

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Then he winds up getting riches there and he goes back to Hebron.

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He has Isaac, the chosen child.

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So, to me, it's very telling what God's doing when He tells him to go to Hebron.

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This is going to be a new beginning for you, David.

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The promise is being fulfilled.

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Hey, when Abraham went back to Hebron, the three angels says next year, and one of them was the Lord.

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The pre-incarnate Lord Jesus Christ.

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He says, I'll be here next year.

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You're swinging your pen at me? Okay.

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I was like, uh-oh, he said he might tell me I'm wrong.

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Wrong! So it's there that he has Isaac.

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A new beginning with the promised child.

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Now we're going to have a new beginning in Hebron with God's chosen seed, meaning David is king.

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Now, not only is he going there, this has got not only that heritage to it, but who all was buried in Hebron? Just about all the people.

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That's right.

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Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Leah.

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So, I mean, I just can't imagine David going, man, God's sending me to a place.

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It's holy ground.

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God's sending me to set up my kingdom here, or he's sending me there for whatever reason.

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Where shall I go? So, it says here that David then went up there, his two wives, Ennahum the Jezrelitus, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite.

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Does anybody ever find it interesting that every time they mention Abigail, it's always Nabal's wife? Huh? Oh, the Carmelites? I mean, that would be the same way whenever it comes to David and Bathsheba.

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It's always Uriah's wife.

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Uriah's wife.

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And I was going to bring that up, because I made that connection as I'm reading, and I go, we know why he brings it up with Uriah.

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It always goes back to David's transgression.

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Excuse me, but in this case, what is it about Abigail that is always Nabal's wife? As I was thinking through that, I go, man, is it where he actually remembers that a woman brought him, confirmed the promise, don't go do this, because when you become king, you're going to have this on your mind.

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Remember what he was going to do? He was not just going to kill Nabal.

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He wasn't going to leave a boy.

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He was going to kill all the boys.

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I mean, if there was a male child, infant, he was going to kill them.

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And I just go, man, is that what he is? A reminder of him that a woman stood in the place to stop him from going and doing what was going to be very damnable to him.

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And then it says, and David brought his men who were with him, each one to his household, and they lived in the cities of Hebron.

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And then the men of Judah came there and anointed David king over Judah.

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All right, so here it is.

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Did David know what was going to happen when he got here? As far as being anointed? Yeah, did he know he was going to be made king there? I did, but I don't think he knew for sure.

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I don't think he had a clue.

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You don't think so? No.

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Because he didn't summons these people up.

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Remember, once again, we're seeing God move.

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And you could be right, Micah.

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You could be right.

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Yeah, you could be right.

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But as I read the text, God's telling him to go here.

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He doesn't say, go here, I'm going to make you king.

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He says, where do you want me to go? What do you want me to do? And he was basically done the same way that Abraham was told.

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You go here and basically trust and obey.

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Trust and obey.

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We don't have any indication that David asked him any more questions.

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We don't have any indication that David said, okay, what's going to happen when I get there? We don't know.

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But we know this, when David gets there, David does not summons these men based on the text.

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Okay? Based on the text.

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We don't have any indication that David said, all right, tell all the people from Judah to come to me.

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But what we do have from the text, this, then the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah.

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So now, we have had all this time wondering, when are we going to talk about David as being king? When we had what, 16 chapters? And David's not being king? He's been anointed king, but he's not king.

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We've seen David being, he slayed Goliath.

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He's killed thousands.

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That was good.

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Yeah.

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He's the, like I said, he's the giant killer, he's the Saul soother.

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Yep.

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I was going to write all of it, but dude, this board's garbage.

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It don't write on it.

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So I'm going to fix all that.

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But I was going to put up here David over there, and then leave a big blank here, because David wasn't king yet.

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And now we can start looking at all the things that God prepared him.

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Certainly, did God prepare him first to be a warrior, to fight for His people? Yes, He did.

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And how did He do that? He sent animals.

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Yeah.

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We often think that, oh, it began with slaying the giant, and it did not, because even David said it was not slaying the giant, because when he was standing there with all this stuff on, all ragtag, looked like me wearing Tim Stewart's clothes.

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And what did he say? He said, man, I don't need any of this.

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He said, because God has prepared me for this very thing.

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And Saul's like, how can you say that? He says, because with these hands, I have tore apart a lion and a bear.

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So God prepared him by slaying things that men can't do on their own.

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I mean, think about it.

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We do have been an eye where he killed one down in a pit.

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But we often, if you understand how that is, that it fell in the pit, and he killed it with a spear is how we would understand that.

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He didn't jump down in the pit and have a wrangling with him.

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But what do we know about another person that was filled with the power of the Spirit and ripped a lion apart? Samson.

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So we see the preparation by God preparing these men to be great deliverers of the people of God by tearing it apart.

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Just before I go any further, I don't know if y'all have ever made the connection, you've got the great deliverer, Samson, who tore a lion apart for the power of the Spirit.

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David, great deliverer, tore the lion and the bear apart by the power of the Spirit.

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And both of their lives were wrecked because of sexual immorality.

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Both of them.

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David's life, and we'll get to it sometime, David's life was never the same after Bathsheba.

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And what happened with him? What's his face going in and wanting to marry a Canaanite woman? His life was never the same.

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His life was never the same.

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Ruined and wrecked.

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Wound up getting his eyes poked out.

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David wound up having his family just in absolute turmoil.

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So it's here that the men of Judah come and they anoint him king over the house of Judah.

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Now, I do want us to understand that there's a big difference of how the wording is used here of anointing David as king and how back in, I think it's in 1 Samuel 8-9, we had the private anointing of Saul.

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Remember? He was out looking for the mules.

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Couldn't find them.

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Under the providence of God, that led him to Samuel.

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Samuel then says, Hey, come eat the sacrifice with me.

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They came there to give him some money to talk to him.

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He says, Nope, sit down.

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He gives him the choice leg.

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After that, he says, Come on, let's walk out.

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Y'all can go on your way.

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Mule's been found.

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And as they get out into the city, remember what he tells the servant to do? Tell your servant to kick rocks.

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Go on.

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Go on.

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We're going by his way.

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And he stops and he says, Hey, he privately anoints Saul king.

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Okay? Then, it's not until after he does the great deliverance of the eye poker, okay, do they take him to Gilgal.

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And if you go back and read that, I want you to go back and read because it's used the same way with Abner.

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It says that Israel made him king.

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You say, well, what's the difference between making someone king and anointing king? Because kings are only anointed by God.

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Okay? I want you to understand, too, this will be the last time we see a king.

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From my understanding, Bert might correct me.

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He's studied the Bible longer than I am old.

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This is the only time, the last time David will be the only one anointed king.

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Solomon's not anointed king.

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Yep.

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But you know what? Solomon, anybody after that's not anointed.

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Now, are they set in succession as kings? Yes.

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But this is the last time we'll see someone anointed as king.

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He's anointed here over the house of Judah.

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Okay? And once the civil war ends, he will be anointed fully and totally and here and again by the collective monarchy.

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So, trivia question.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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What's that? Okay.

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Okay.

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Who's first king? Saul.

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Who's second king? Ish-b-shef.

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Ish-b-shef of Israel.

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Ish-b-shef of Israel.

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Hang on.

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So now, and we need to be clear because here's how it works.

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There's only three kings in a monarchy.

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Remember, the monarchy, the United.

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The United.

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Who would the three kings be? Saul.

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David.

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Solomon.

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What happens after Solomon? Everybody remember? It splits.

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Because it splits.

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So there are only three of the monarchy.

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Now, that's a trivia question for Israel.

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Now, who was the first king over Judah? It would have been Saul.

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Who would have been the second king over Judah? David.

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You understand? Now that that splinters, that's what happens.

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So you're going to have all, you're going to have basically the southern end is going to back who? David.

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Why? Because he's the only one.

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That's it.

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Yeah.

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They're like, hey man, that's our dude.

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We can't have nobody running around chasing him.

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So, and there was obviously recognition that David, first of all, where did David do all of his wandering around? Judah.

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Down here.

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In his, basically his homeland.

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Now, did he come over here and do all that? Yes, he did.

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But his main reason, if I stay here, man, if things really get hot, I should be able to collectively grab ahold of some people to help me.

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But what do we remember for 15 years? Did David ever kill one of his countrymen? Did David's men, from what we know of, okay, based on the text, kill any of his countrymen? In their heart, David.

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Huh? In his heart, he's the member of the white guy.

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Let me just, yeah.

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He was ready to kill him.

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but we don't have any, we don't have any indication that there was a, but what about Saul? How many, what's that? He killed a whole bunch of brutes.

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And then, and then the whole city.

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Nob.

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Yeah, or Nob, however you want to say it.

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Yeah, then that whole city is gone.

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So, you do see the distinction now that we're making between the people's king, okay, and God's king.

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God's king is going to rule in justice and in righteousness.

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And dude, that can't point any better to the Lord Jesus Christ.

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I mean, you think about, yes, sir, get your pen.

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I just had an interesting thought when you were talking about the succession about there wasn't a king anointed after David.

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And isn't that because of the promise he makes to David that, you know, your line will continue that kingly line.

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In other words, the king was ripped out of the hands of Saul, given to, you know, your neighbor, given to David.

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But then, you didn't need to have it taken out of his hand and given to another person because he made the promise to David that, like, of your seed, that was going to be the kingly line.

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Yeah, it would be through his line that the greater son of David would come.

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Yeah, when we get to that, we're going to talk about the Davidic promise and the covenant and all that.

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We'll talk about that.

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Yes, I do agree that that's why I believe that there was no one else anointed and that this is a specific reason.

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Even when we get to, I don't know if we'll get there today, but you look at what Abner does.

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Abner does what the people of Israel does when they go to Gilgal.

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Abner, the kingmaker, makes king.

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He doesn't anoint.

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He makes.

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Yeah, and it's a big difference.

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A big difference.

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So, we see David.

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He is now anointed king over Judah and that he is going to rule in righteousness.

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Just look back to what Mike taught last week.

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Is that what he taught? When I was listening to what Mike taught, I went, man, that is, he talked about the guy coming and running.

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Remember the Amalekite.

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One, he should have known don't be an Amalekite coming to David.

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I mean, did he sign his death warrant no matter what? Okay? But what did he do when he came to David? He thought he was bringing good news.

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Right? What was the news that Mike said he brought? Or that the Scripture said? He said, I killed your enemy.

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Basically, and he thought, go ahead.

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No, that Saul and his son, Jonathan, had died at the battle.

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Yeah, and he thought he was bringing him good news in hopes of, what did he say he gave and he brought? He brought the crown and his watch and his Rolex.

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Alright? So he brought his crown and his Rolex and he is like, look, and I am bringing these gifts to you to show you that while he was injured, I did the honorable thing and struck him down.

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Boy, did he know what a great miscalculation that was.

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Okay? And what did David do? And what was his reaction? He struck him down.

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Was that not an act of justice? So we see that God's anointed king is going to do what? He is going to rule righteously.

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Okay? Now, what is the Lord Jesus Christ going to do? He is going to rule righteously and what is he going to do to the wicked doers? He is going to strike them down.

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He is going to strike them down.

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But, then, we see, not only do we see the anointed king last week going to rule in righteousness and now they have anointed this king that is going to rule righteously in Judah.

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Look at what happens here in the next paragraph or the next verse.

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It says, And they told David, saying, It was the men of Jabesh-Gilead who buried Saul.

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And David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-Gilead and he said to them, May you be blessed of the Lord because of what you have shown to the kindness to Saul, your Lord, and have buried him.

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He reached...

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Okay.

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Remember.

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Who...

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The Jabesh-Gilead guys, who were they? They were the guys that just had to keep their eyes.

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That is.

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And why were they...

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And they were faithful to Saul.

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Were they not? Were they not followers of Saul? Let's just make it easy.

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They were followers of Saul.

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Where was their allegiance? Was it Saul or David? Saul.

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What does David do? He does them good.

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He, being the king, now anointed here, he goes to his enemy, extends the hand of peace, and says, Look.

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And look how he does it.

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He says, Look, what you did, may you be blessed of the Lord because of what? Kindness.

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Hey, David's still looking at Saul, his enemy, and says, You showed kindness to this man.

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And what did they do? I mean, they didn't just bury him.

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They went all night.

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They took the bodies off the wall.

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That's the enemy's wall.

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And they burned...

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Burnt the flesh.

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Decomposition.

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Yep.

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And making themselves unclean from touching a corpse for however long, three days, I can't remember what it was, but however long that is, they made themselves unclean to do the very thing to show honor to the kingship of Saul.

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Now these people would have been David's enemies.

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Would they not? Yep.

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And David extends the hand.

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And how does he do it? By blessing them of the Lord.

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I pray that the Lord would show you kindness for what you did to your Lord and you buried Him.

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Now may the Lord show kindness and truth to you.

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And what does he say? He basically says, The same way that God is going to show, I want God to show loving kindness and goodness to you.

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What does he say? I'm going to do the same to you.

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So he reaches out to those people who were his enemy with an olive branch and says, Hey, peace.

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Peace.

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Does that not like the Lord Jesus Christ? I mean, now we're seeing that king come in full view that points to Christ.

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Look man, everybody in here is a hell deserving, wrath deserving sinner.

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We are enemies of God.

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And who reaches out with an olive branch through the gospel, okay, not to sound like an allegory, okay, but does not, can you reach out your hand to Christ? We have the inability.

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But what does Christ do to us? He reaches out and pulls us out of the corpse of death.

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Pulls us up and gives us life and then makes us his own.

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David is saying that here.

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Now we don't know their response.

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We don't know the response.

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But here's what it is.

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He says, May you be blessed to the Lord because of the loving kindness you have shown to Saul.

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You buried him.

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Where did they bury him at? Under the what tree? Tamarus tree.

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And you remember the Tamarus tree? Last time we saw Saul under a, saw, saw, saw, saw under a Tamarus tree.

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He was holding a spear.

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Now we got bones under a Tamarus tree.

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And he says, Because of this thing that you have done, you have shown kindness.

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In verse 7, Now therefore, let your hands be strong and valiant for your Lord is dead.

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And also the King of Judah, I'm sorry, the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.

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What is David saying to these people? He's saying, your master, I mean, I'm sitting in a position, come on, get on my side.

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Yeah, and it's interesting that the way David says it, like, did they not know that their Lord was dead? They buried him.

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You know, it's like, dude, you brought us no new news, David.

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But what David is saying is just as you were valiant for Saul, and you fought for Saul, and you were willing to put your life on the line and go retrieve him for your allegiance to him, now I'm wanting you to do the same for me.

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Do we know their response? We don't.

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We don't know their response.

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We have no idea what their response is.

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Did they follow David? Ultimately, good, ultimately they do, but do we know what their response here was? We have no idea, okay? No idea at all.

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But we know what happens when he goes, when he goes up here, okay, Jabesh Gilead, he goes up here to let them know or sends messengers, we know that as soon as he makes that observation of, hey, I'm Judah, I'm the king over Judah, come follow me, just take about two and a half inches and go down here.

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And look at this verse here.

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But Abner, and I think we'll finish up here.

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But Abner, the son of Nair, commander of Saul's army, had taken Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, and he brought him to Manahem, and he made him king over Gilead, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and even over all of Israel.

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Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was 40 years old when he became king over Israel, and he was king for two years, and in the house of Judah, however, followed David.

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And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

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Now, we're going to pick back up at eight so we can start walking through all of that.

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So you do see whoever the narrator is is making a distinction.

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We've got David king over Judah.

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He reaches out a hand of peace to his enemies hoping that they would, but what do we have Abner doing? He's...

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Go ahead.

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There's your heading for your message today.

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Which king? Abner the kingmaker.

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Yep.

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Abner the kingmaker.

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Abner is now doing what no army man can do.

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He's actually putting himself...

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Hey, well, by taking...

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He's starting a rebellion.

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He is starting a rebellion knowing...

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knowing that David was the anointed king.

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And how do we know that? How do we know? I'm sorry? Because Saul told him.

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Because Saul told him? Yep.

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He knew.

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He was standing there when Saul told him I know that you're going to be next in line.

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And I want...

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God's going to bless you and you're going to do all these things.

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But what did Abner do? To save face and try to keep his position.

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He says, you know what? I'll take the only guy that's left which would most likely have been the youngest child of King Saul and would have been Ishbosheth.

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This would be another way...

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I'm not going to shut up.

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This would be another way of how I understood...

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I don't know if you remember back.

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And if anybody would have asked, I would have explained.

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I go to this passage that I believe that Jonathan was much older than David.

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When David came and fought Goliath, I believe he was probably 15.

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But if you remember, Jonathan was already fighting battles and he was already a man of war.

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So he would have been...

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First we look at, he would have been at least 20.

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Enough to go to battle.

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But I believe he was older based on this text here because if he is 40 and he has taken king over...

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made king over the 10 tribes, but the next we see David.

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How old was David? He was 30.

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So we know that Ishbosheth was at least 10 years older than David which makes Jonathan at least 10 years older.

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Understand? I'd write it all out for you, but it don't work.

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So that's how I came to that conclusion.

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Now here it is.

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You had a 25 year old man basically discipling David at 15.

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Maybe the last time he came to David before the last time he saw him, he might have been 40 years old.

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And what did he come and do? Jonathan came to strengthen David in the Lord.

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How old do you think Ishbosheth is there? 40.

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It says that he's 40 years old.

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So why didn't he fall with Saul and his other sons? Well, I got my own inference on that.

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It doesn't tell you.

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Why wasn't...

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I think I said this two weeks ago.

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Why wasn't Abner with...

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What was Abner's job? Abner was a general.

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He was to protect the king.

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He got mocked by David.

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He said, look here, dude.

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I got the jug.

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I've got the spear.

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You need to be put to death.

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And your job is to protect the king.

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Now, I do believe...

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This is my inference.

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Now we look at the whole text.

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When they did their little...

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Around to Endor, remember they were down here to battle.

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They had to go.

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He was in a disguise.

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Only a couple of men were with him that night.

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Who was his bodyguard? You don't think Abner heard? If Abner was with him and Abner was his bodyguard.

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Look, I'm not going to die on this hill.

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I'm just trying to...

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Look, based on what we know.

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If Abner was there when he talked to the witch of Endor, he saw a false slap on his face and Samuel told him, you and all your sons are going to die tomorrow.

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In my mind, if I was Abner...

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Okay, alright.

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You die tomorrow with all your friends.

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I'm going to take this one.

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I'm going to put him away.

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And I'm going to go this way.

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I'm going to do my own thing.

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Because you're going to die tomorrow and all your sons.

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But I'm going to take this guy and I'm going to shove him away.

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I'm going to put him in hiding until this is all settled.

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Now, I do believe, even though it says here two years, my understanding of that is that after two years, then this civil war takes place.

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And the reason being is because when we get into chapter 3, you see now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David.

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Is two years a long war? Is seven? Okay? So that's how I understand that.

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I could be wrong.

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I'm just trying to tell you how...

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Because when you're trying to connect the dots, sometimes you go, okay, this didn't happen from here to here.

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These people coming up here.

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And then these men sending here to here and then here to here.

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This doesn't happen in rapid succession like things could happen today.

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You've got men on horses, on camels, on feet.

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So there has to be...

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We have to take into account this has taken some time.

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Do I think it took two years for Abner to put in place Ish-bosheth? The answer is no, I don't.

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I think that happened relatively quick.

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But I don't think the major civil war began to break out until about two years, year and a half, maybe.

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Then you start seeing these men come around.

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We're going to see Joab pop up next week.

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Once we get Joab into the picture, then we're going to go, who's Joab? Who is his brothers? How do they work into the army? So I think it took some time.

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If you're wanting to correct me or find something next week, I'm open to that.

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But I'm just trying to connect the dots.

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Correct.

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Yeah.

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It's chaos.

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Yeah, well, we even know it was chaos because when he dies, when they find out in Gibeah that Saul died, anybody remember what happened? The wet nurse picks up Ish-bosheth.

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You say it better than me.

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You say it.

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No, the other one.

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See? He's my guy.

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I need that little button.

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He picks him up and runs, and what does she do? Falls on him.

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Breaks his legs.

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How old was he? Five years old.

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So we see that.

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Then the next time we see him, he's going to be a little older where he can say what happened.

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So just remember, this takes a little bit of time.

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So we need to remember that this is not happening in rapid succession.

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Like I said, I don't believe here that this happened in rapid succession, but the narrator wants you to see the distinction between David being anointed king and Ish-bosheth being made a king.

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And if you even see what Abner does, he does a lot of the same things.

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And what does he do? Ish-bosheth, dude, he's an innocent bystander.

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It said he took him.

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What did we see about the characteristic of Saul? He took.

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He took.

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All right.

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Burt, you'll close us in prayer and we'll pick up here next week? Amen.