{"id":1016,"date":"2012-04-29T22:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T05:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:32:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:32:32","slug":"2-samuel-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/04\/29\/2-samuel-18\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Samuel 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Samuel 18<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (For the background see our studies in <\/span>2 Samuel 16<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> and <\/span>17<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n

Even this early on, David seems to have lost his trust in his relative Joab. Joab was the commander of David\u2019s army. He may have been on Absalom\u2019s side for a time (2 Samuel 17.25<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0may or may not indicate this). We do know in <\/span>1 Kings 2.28<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0that he did follow David\u2019s other son, Adonijah. Dividing the troops into three companies could have held a twofold purpose. Three companies going into battle provide a common offensive and defensive stand (a central company with two wings or the point, the main company, and a rearguard on the march) but also provides David with at least one company if two of the leaders turn traitor.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Verses 1-18 present the means of Absalom\u2019s death by the hand of Joab as an act of God (19). Verses 19-32 present the news being delivered to David. Verse 33 is David\u2019s reception of it. The repetition of\u00a0Absalom and son is significant in Hebrew writing. There was great mourning on David\u2019s part over the death of this son even though he was in rebellion.<\/p>\n

I leave the chapter unfinished. I will continue it another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2 Samuel 18 (For the background see our studies in 2 Samuel 16 and 17) Even this early on, David seems to have lost his trust in his relative Joab. Joab was the commander of David\u2019s army. He may have been on Absalom\u2019s side for a time (2 Samuel 17.25\u00a0may or may not indicate this). … Continue reading “2 Samuel 18”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,5],"tags":[244,256,60],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2-samuel","category-daily-studies","tag-absalom","tag-rebellion","tag-research","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}