Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000539
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00:17 Hello, and welcome to His Words are Life.
00:20 I'm Kelly Mowrer and we're going to read today, in the book of 00:23 2nd Samuel. We've been reading the story of when Absalom tried 00:28 to seize control of the kingdom from his father, King David, 00:31 and as David fled the city and was crossing over Jordan, a man 00:36 named Shimei had come out and cursed David and mocked him. 00:40 But Absalom was defeated and David has returned to power, and 00:44 now David is coming back across the Jordan and Shimei has come 00:48 to try to make up for his great transgression in mocking and 00:54 cursing at the King earlier. We're going to pick up the story 00:57 there but let's pray together first. Dear Lord please come and 01:01 be with us. Send your Holy Spirit to teach us the lessons 01:04 that you have here for us to learn in our lives today. 01:07 We love you so much and thank you for loving us. Amen. 01:11 We're beginning in 2nd Samuel, chapter 19, verse 21. 01:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, 01:22 Shall not Shimei be put to death for this because he cursed 01:26 the Lord's anointed? And David said, What have I to do with you 01:30 ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries 01:33 unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? 01:37 for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel? 01:42 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, thou shalt not die. 01:47 And the king sware unto him. And Mephibosheth the son of Saul 01:51 came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, 01:54 nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day 01:57 the king departed until the day he came again in peace. 02:01 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem 02:04 to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest 02:08 not thou with me, Mephibosheth? And he answered, My Lord, O king 02:13 my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me 02:17 an ass, that I may ride thereon and go to the king; because 02:20 thy servant is lame. And he hath slandered thy servant 02:24 unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel 02:27 of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes. 02:30 For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord 02:35 the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them 02:37 that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet 02:41 to cry any more unto the king? And the king said unto him, 02:45 Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, 02:49 Thou and Ziba divide the land. And Mephibosheth said unto 02:53 the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king 02:56 has come again in peace unto his own house. And Barzilai the 03:00 the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan 03:04 with the king, to conduct him over Jordan. Now Barzilai was 03:08 a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided 03:13 the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a 03:17 very great man. And the king said unto Barzilai, Come thou 03:21 over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem. 03:25 And Barzilai said unto the king, How long have I to live, 03:29 that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? 03:32 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between 03:35 good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink 03:39 can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and singing women? 03:43 wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden 03:46 unto my lord the king? Thy servant will go a little way 03:49 over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense 03:53 it me with such a reward? Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn 03:56 back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried 04:00 by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy 04:04 servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king, 04:07 and do to him what shall seem good unto thee. 04:10 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me and I will 04:14 do to him that which shall seem good unto thee, and whatsoever 04:18 thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee. 04:21 And all the people went over Jordan and when the king was 04:24 come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; 04:27 and he returned unto his own place. Then the king went on 04:31 to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of 04:35 Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel. 04:38 And behold all the men of Israel came to the king and said unto 04:42 the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee 04:47 away, and have brought the king and his household, and all 04:50 David's men with him, over Jordan? And the men of Judah 04:54 answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin 04:58 to us: Wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? 05:01 have we eaten at all of the king's cost, or hath he given us 05:05 any gift? And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, 05:08 and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more 05:12 right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our 05:16 advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? 05:19 And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the 05:23 words of the men of Israel. Continuing in 2nd Samuel, 05:27 chapter 20, this is the King James Version. 05:29 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was 05:34 Sheba, the son pf Biochri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet 05:38 and said we have no part in David, neither have we 05:41 inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents O Israel. 05:44 So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed 05:49 Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah clave unto their 05:54 king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem; and David came to 05:58 his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, his 06:01 concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in 06:05 ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut 06:10 up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood. 06:13 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah 06:18 within three days, and be thou here present. So Amasa went to 06:23 assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set 06:27 time which he had appointed him. And David said to Abishai, 06:30 Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did 06:34 Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, 06:37 lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us. 06:41 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, 06:45 and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out 06:49 of Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. 06:52 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, 06:56 Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put 07:00 on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword 07:04 fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went 07:08 forth it fell out. And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, 07:13 my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand 07:18 to kiss him. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in 07:23 Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, 07:27 and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again 07:30 and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother, pursued after Sheba 07:36 the son of Bichri. And one of Joab's men stood by him, 07:40 and said, He that favoreth Joab and he that is for David, 07:44 let him go after Joab. And Amasa wallowed in the blood in the 07:49 midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people 07:52 stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into 07:55 the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one 07:58 that came by him stood still. When he was removed out of 08:02 the highway, all the people went on after Joab, 08:04 to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. 08:07 And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, 08:10 and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered 08:14 together, and went also after him. And they came and besieged 08:18 him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against 08:23 the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people 08:26 that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. 08:29 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I 08:36 pray you unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with 08:39 thee. And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, 08:42 Art thou Joab? And he answered I am he. Then she said unto him, 08:47 Hear the words of thine handmaid and he answered, I do hear. 08:51 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, 08:56 saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they 09:00 ended the matter. I am one of them that are peaceable 09:03 and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and 09:07 a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance 09:10 of the Lord? And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it 09:16 from me that I should swallow up or destroy. The matter is not so 09:21 but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, 09:25 hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: 09:28 deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. 09:32 And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown 09:37 to thee over the wall. Then the woman went unto all the people 09:40 in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of 09:44 Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they 09:49 retired from the city, every man to his tent. 09:51 And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king. 09:54 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah, the son 09:59 of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the 10:02 Pelethites: and Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat 10:06 the son of Ahilud was recorder: And Sheva was scribe: 10:10 and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests: 10:12 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David. 10:16 We're continuing in 2nd Samuel, chapter 21, 10:19 and this is the King James Version. 10:21 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, 10:26 year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. 10:30 And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, 10:35 because he slew the Gibeonites. And the king called the 10:39 Gobeonites, and said unto them; now the Gibeonites were not 10:42 of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites. 10:45 And the children of Israel had sworn unto them and Saul sought 10:48 to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah. 10:51 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for 10:55 you and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless 10:59 the inheritance of the Lord? And the Gibeonites said unto him 11:03 We shall have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of this house: 11:07 neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, 11:11 What ye shall say, that will I do for you. And they answered 11:16 the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us 11:21 that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts 11:24 of Israel, Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, 11:28 and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, 11:32 whom the Lord did choose. And the king said, I will give them. 11:36 But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of 11:41 Saul, because of the Lord's oath that was between them, 11:44 between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. But the king took 11:48 the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare 11:52 unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; 11:55 and the five sons of Michal, the daughter of Saul, whom she 11:58 brought up for Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: 12:03 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, 12:05 and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell 12:09 all seven together and were put to death in the days of harvest, 12:13 in the first days, in the beginning of the barley harvest. 12:16 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it 12:21 for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water 12:24 dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds 12:27 of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field 12:31 by night. And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah 12:36 the concubine of Saul, had done. And David went and took 12:39 the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men 12:43 of Jabeshgilead which had stolen them from the street of 12:46 Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, 12:49 when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: And he brought 12:52 up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan 12:56 his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. 12:59 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they 13:02 in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish 13:06 his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. 13:10 And after that God was entreated for the land. 13:13 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David 13:18 went down and his servants with him, and fought against the 13:20 Philistines: and David waxed faint. And Ishbibnob, which was 13:27 of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed 13:30 300 shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword 13:34 thought to have slain David. But Abishai the son of Seruiah 13:39 succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. 13:42 Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go 13:46 no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light 13:49 of Israel. And it came to pass after this, that there was again 13:53 a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai 13:57 the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant. 14:02 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where 14:05 Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother 14:09 of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear 14:12 was like a weaver's beam. And there was yet a battle in Gath, 14:15 where was a man of great stature that had on every hand 6 fingers 14:19 and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; 14:21 and he also was born to the giant. And when he defied Israel 14:25 Jonathan the son of Shimeah the brother of David slew him. 14:29 Please join me again next time to read the word of God together 14:33 Until then, may He keep us in his grace and mercy. |
Revised 2014-12-17