2 Samuel
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Session 1 · 2 Samuel 1–5
David laments Saul and is anointed at Hebron.
- An Amalekite claims he killed Saul, David has him executed, and the lament asks that Gath not hear how the mighty have fallen.
- Judah anoints David at Hebron, Ish-bosheth reigns through Abner, and Asahel dies on Abner's spear at the battle of Gibeon.
- Abner defects to David, Joab murders him at the gate of Hebron, and David follows the bier and fasts.
- Rechab and Baanah bring Ish-bosheth's head for a reward, and David executes them and buries the head in Abner's tomb.
- The tribes anoint David king over Israel, he takes Zion from the Jebusites, and he inquires before he strikes the Philistines.
Session 2 · 2 Samuel 6–10
The ark comes up, and God builds David a house.
- Uzzah dies when he steadies the ark on a cart, and David later dances before it while Michal despises him.
- Nathan tells David that the LORD will build him a house, and that a son will build a house for the Name and reign forever.
- David defeats Philistines, Moab, Zobah, Aram, and Edom, dedicates the spoil, and administers justice in Israel.
- For Jonathan's sake David restores Saul's land to lame Mephibosheth and seats him at the king's table.
- Hanun of Ammon shames David's envoys, hires Aram, and Joab and David break the hired armies.
Session 3 · 2 Samuel 11–15
Bathsheba, Uriah, Tamar, and a stolen kingdom.
- David takes Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, writes Uriah's death into Joab's orders, and the thing displeases the LORD.
- Nathan says, you are the man, David confesses, the child dies, and Solomon is born and loved by the LORD.
- Amnon rapes Tamar, David is angry and does nothing, and Absalom has Amnon killed at a sheep-shearing and flees to Geshur.
- The wise woman of Tekoa, sent by Joab, turns David's oath so that Absalom is brought back to Jerusalem.
- Absalom steals Israel's heart at the gate, and David flees across the Kidron and weeps barefoot up the Mount of Olives.
Session 4 · 2 Samuel 16–20
Absalom hangs in the oak, and David weeps.
- Ziba slanders Mephibosheth, Shimei curses David as a man of blood, and Absalom lies with his father's concubines on the roof.
- Hushai overturns Ahithophel's counsel, David crosses the Jordan, and Ahithophel sets his house in order and hangs himself.
- Joab kills Absalom, caught in the oak against David's order, and the king cries that he would have died instead.
- Joab rebukes the grief, David returns, Shimei is spared, and Mephibosheth and Ziba divide the land.
- Sheba leads Israel away from David, Joab murders Amasa, and a wise woman of Abel throws Sheba's head over the wall.
Session 5 · 2 Samuel 21–24
Famine, a song, mighty men, and a costly altar.
- A three-year famine is tied to Saul's bloodguilt against the Gibeonites, seven of his sons are hanged, and Rizpah guards the bodies until David buries the bones.
- David sings that the LORD is his rock and deliverer, the God who heard him from the waves of death and shows steadfast love to his anointed.
- David's last words speak of a just ruler and an everlasting covenant, and the mighty men are named, with Uriah the Hittite last.
- David numbers Israel, a plague kills seventy thousand, and he buys Araunah's threshing floor so the altar will not be a gift that costs him nothing.