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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:40 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Wednesday April 1 >2 Samuel 10-12 (The Message) > > 2 Samuel 10 > 1-2 Sometime after this, the king of the Ammonites died and Hanun, his > son, succeeded him as king. > David said, "I'd like to show some kindness to Hanun, > the son of Nahash-treat him as well and as kindly as his father treated > me." So David sent Hanun > condolences regarding his father. > > 2-3 But when David's servants got to the land of the Ammonites, the > Ammonite leaders warned Hanun, > their head delegate, "Do you for a minute suppose that > David is honoring your father by sending you comforters? Don't you think > it's because he wants to > snoop around the city and size it up that David has sent > his emissaries to you?" > > 4 So Hanun seized David's men, shaved off half their beards, cut off their > robes halfway up their > buttocks, and sent them packing. > > 5 When all this was reported to David, he sent someone to meet them, for > they were seriously > humiliated. The king told them, "Stay in Jericho until your > beards grow out. Only then come back." > > 6 When it dawned on the Ammonites that as far as David was concerned they > stunk to high heaven, > they hired Aramean soldiers from Beth-Rehob and Zobah-twenty > thousand infantry-and a thousand men from the king of Maacah, and twelve > thousand men from Tob. > > 7 When David heard of this, he dispatched Joab with his strongest fighters > in full force. > > 8-12 The Ammonites marched out and arranged themselves in battle formation > at the city gate. The > Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah > took up a position out in the open fields. When Joab saw that he had two > fronts to fight, before and > behind, he took his pick of the best of Israel and > deployed them to confront the Arameans. The rest of the army he put under > the command of Abishai, > his brother, and deployed them to confront the Ammonites. > Then he said, "If the Arameans are too much for me, you help me. And if > the Ammonites prove too much > for you, I'll come and help you. Courage! We'll fight > with might and main for our people and for the cities of our God. And God > will do whatever he sees > needs doing!" > > 13-14 But when Joab and his soldiers moved in to fight the Arameans, they > ran off in full retreat. > Then the Ammonites, seeing the Arameans run for dear > life, took to their heels from Abishai and went into the city. > > So Joab left off fighting the Ammonites and returned to Jerusalem. > > 15-17 When the Arameans saw how badly they'd been beaten by Israel, they > picked up the pieces and > regrouped. Hadadezer sent for the Arameans who were across > the River. They came to Helam. Shobach, commander of Hadadezer's army, led > them. All this was > reported to David. > > 17-19 So David mustered Israel, crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. The > Arameans went into > battle formation, ready for David, and the fight was on. > But the Arameans again scattered before Israel. David killed seven hundred > chariot drivers and forty > thousand cavalry. And he mortally wounded Shobach, > the army commander, who died on the battlefield. When all the kings who > were vassals of Hadadezer > saw that they had been routed by Israel, they made peace > and became Israel's vassals. The Arameans were afraid to help the > Ammonites ever again. > > 2 Samuel 11 > > David's Sin and Sorrow > 1When that time of year came around again, the anniversary of the Ammonite > aggression, David > dispatched Joab and his fighting men of Israel in full force > to destroy the Ammonites for good. They laid siege to Rabbah, but David > stayed in Jerusalem. > > 2-5 One late afternoon, David got up from taking his nap and was strolling > on the roof of the > palace. From his vantage point on the roof he saw a woman > bathing. The woman was stunningly beautiful. David sent to ask about her, > and was told, "Isn't this > Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the > Hittite?" David sent his agents to get her. After she arrived, he went to > bed with her. (This > occurred during the time of "purification" following her > period.) Then she returned home. Before long she realized she was > pregnant. > > Later she sent word to David: "I'm pregnant." > > 6 David then got in touch with Joab: "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." Joab > sent him. > > 7-8 When he arrived, David asked him for news from the front-how things > were going with Joab and > the troops and with the fighting. Then he said to Uriah, > "Go home. Have a refreshing bath and a good night's rest." > > 8-9 After Uriah left the palace, an informant of the king was sent after > him. But Uriah didn't go > home. He slept that night at the palace entrance, along > with the king's servants. > > 10 David was told that Uriah had not gone home. He asked Uriah, "Didn't > you just come off a hard > trip? So why didn't you go home?" > > 11 Uriah replied to David, "The Chest is out there with the fighting men > of Israel and Judah-in > tents. My master Joab and his servants are roughing it > out in the fields. So, how can I go home and eat and drink and enjoy my > wife? On your life, I'll not > do it!" > > 12-13 "All right," said David, "have it your way. Stay for the day and > I'll send you back > tomorrow." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem the rest of the day. > > The next day David invited him to eat and drink with him, and David got > him drunk. But in the > evening Uriah again went out and slept with his master's > servants. He didn't go home. > > 14-15 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. > In the letter he wrote, > "Put Uriah in the front lines where the fighting is the > fiercest. Then pull back and leave him exposed so that he's sure to be > killed." > > 16-17 So Joab, holding the city under siege, put Uriah in a place where he > knew there were fierce > enemy fighters. When the city's defenders came out to > fight Joab, some of David's soldiers were killed, including Uriah the > Hittite. > > 18-21 Joab sent David a full report on the battle. He instructed the > messenger, "After you have > given to the king a detailed report on the battle, if he > flares in anger, say, 'And by the way, your servant Uriah the Hittite is > dead.'" > > 22-24 Joab's messenger arrived in Jerusalem and gave the king a full > report. He said, "The enemy > was too much for us. They advanced on us in the open field, > and we pushed them back to the city gate. But then arrows came hot and > heavy on us from the city > wall, and eighteen of the king's soldiers died." > > 25 When the messenger completed his report of the battle, David got angry > at Joab. He vented it on > the messenger: "Why did you get so close to the city? > Didn't you know you'd be attacked from the wall? Didn't you remember how > Abimelech son of > Jerub-Besheth got killed? Wasn't it a woman who dropped a millstone > on him from the wall and crushed him at Thebez? Why did you go close to > the wall!" > > "By the way," said Joab's messenger, "your servant Uriah the Hittite is > dead." > > Then David told the messenger, "Oh. I see. Tell Joab, 'Don't trouble > yourself over this. War > kills-sometimes one, sometimes another-you never know who's > next. Redouble your assault on the city and destroy it.' Encourage Joab." > > 26-27 When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she grieved for > her husband. When the time > of mourning was over, David sent someone to bring her > to his house. She became his wife and bore him a son. 27-3 But God was not > at all pleased with what > David had done, and sent Nathan to David. Nathan said > to him, "There were two men in the same city-one rich, the other poor. The > rich man had huge flocks > of sheep, herds of cattle. The poor man had nothing > but one little female lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up > with him and his children as > a member of the family. It ate off his plate and drank > from his cup and slept on his bed. It was like a daughter to him. > > 4 "One day a traveler dropped in on the rich man. He was too stingy to > take an animal from his own > herds or flocks to make a meal for his visitor, so he > took the poor man's lamb and prepared a meal to set before his guest." > > 5-6 David exploded in anger. "As surely as God lives," he said to Nathan, > "the man who did this > ought to be lynched! He must repay for the lamb four times > over for his crime and his stinginess!" > > 7-12 "You're the man!" said Nathan. "And here's what God, the God of > Israel, has to say to you: I > made you king over Israel. I freed you from the fist > of Saul. I gave you your master's daughter and other wives to have and to > hold. I gave you both > Israel and Judah. And if that hadn't been enough, I'd have > gladly thrown in much more. So why have you treated the word of God with > brazen contempt, doing this > great evil? You murdered Uriah the Hittite, then took > his wife as your wife. Worse, you killed him with an Ammonite sword! And > now, because you treated > God with such contempt and took Uriah the Hittite's wife > as your wife, killing and murder will continually plague your family. This > is God speaking, > remember! I'll make trouble for you out of your own family. > I'll take your wives from right out in front of you. I'll give them to > some neighbor, and he'll go > to bed with them openly. You did your deed in secret; > I'm doing mine with the whole country watching!" > > 13-14 Then David confessed to Nathan, "I've sinned against God." > > Nathan pronounced, "Yes, but that's not the last word. God forgives > your sin. You won't die for > it. But because of your blasphemous behavior, the son > born to you will die." > > 15-18 After Nathan went home, God afflicted the child that Uriah's wife > bore to David, and he came > down sick. David prayed desperately to God for the little > boy. He fasted, wouldn't go out, and slept on the floor. The elders in his > family came in and tried > to get him off the floor, but he wouldn't budge. Nor > could they get him to eat anything. On the seventh day the child died. > David's servants were afraid > to tell him. They said, "What do we do now? While the > child was living he wouldn't listen to a word we said. Now, with the child > dead, if we speak to him > there's no telling what he'll do." > > 19 David noticed that the servants were whispering behind his back, and > realized that the boy must > have died. > > He asked the servants, "Is the boy dead?" > > "Yes," they answered. "He's dead." > > 20 David got up from the floor, washed his face and combed his hair, put > on a fresh change of > clothes, then went into the sanctuary and worshiped. Then > he came home and asked for something to eat. They set it before him and he > ate. > > 21 His servants asked him, "What's going on with you? While the child was > alive you fasted and wept > and stayed up all night. Now that he's dead, you get > up and eat." > > 22-23 "While the child was alive," he said, "I fasted and wept, thinking > God might have mercy on me > and the child would live. But now that he's dead, why > fast? Can I bring him back now? I can go to him, but he can't come to me." > > 24-25 David went and comforted his wife Bathsheba. And when he slept with > her, they conceived a > son. When he was born they named him Solomon. God had a > special love for him and sent word by Nathan the prophet that God wanted > him named Jedidiah (God's > Beloved). > > 26-30 Joab, at war in Rabbah against the Ammonites, captured the royal > city. He sent messengers to > David saying, "I'm fighting at Rabbah, and I've just > captured the city's water supply. Hurry and get the rest of the troops > together and set up camp here > at the city and complete the capture yourself. Otherwise, > I'll capture it and get all the credit instead of you." So David marshaled > all the troops, went to > Rabbah, and fought and captured it. He took the crown > from their king's head-very heavy with gold, and with a precious stone in > it. It ended up on David's > head. And they plundered the city, carrying off a > great quantity of loot. > > 31 David emptied the city of its people and put them to slave labor using > saws, picks, and axes, > and making bricks. He did this to all the Ammonite cities. > Then David and the whole army returned to Jerusalem. > > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
