{"id":1070,"date":"2012-05-07T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:23:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:23:38","slug":"2-samuel-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/05\/07\/2-samuel-21\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Samuel 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Samuel 21<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

This chapter seems to be\u00a0unjust in terms of executing seven sons of Saul as a payment for the crimes of the father. However, these sons could have been involved\u00a0in the raids that slaughtered the Gibeonites\u00a0and the sons are being tried\u00a0for their crimes (not unlike\u00a0the trials at Nuremberg). If God had chosen the seven, then this would seem a proper conjecture.<\/p>\n

Rizpah\u2019s protection of her son\u2019s bodies gave cause for David to give proper burial to Saul and Jonathan.<\/p>\n

David was getting old and his men would not let him go to battle any longer for fear that he would die and the nation would be in turmoil yet again. This verse leads me to believe these closing chapters of 2 Samuel (21-24) are in their proper place chronologically. Many assert these were stories added to the text and are out of chronological order. 1 Kings 1 resumes the chronology that ended in 2 Samuel 20, according to this theory.<\/p>\n

Who killed Goliath? There are various attempts to reconcile verse nineteen with 1 Samuel 17 (see our study<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). Three major theories have been provided\u00a0to reconcile these passages. The first one is that Elhanan is another name for David. If this were the case, then 1 Chronicles 20.5 (<\/span>see our study<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>) presents a problem in that David would have had to have killed two giants (Lahmi\u00a0and Goliath). The second theory is that Elhanan\u00a0killed Goliath and David was given credit for it later on. This misses the point of 1 Samuel 17, which introduces David as king because of his ability to subdue the Philistines. The third theory takes 1 Chronicles 20.5 into account and allows the translation of\u00a0“Lahmi” instead of “Bethlehemite.” The two words are closely related where the former means “my bread” and the latter means “house of bread.” Thus, David killed Goliath and Elhanan\u00a0killed Lahmi, his brother.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A promise made is a promise kept, regardless of the context. When making promises, be sure to think them through in order not to make foolish promises (see the book of Judges for examples). When Saul did not keep the promise of Israel to the Gibeonites, God judged his household and the nation. When we do not keep promises, who will be held accountable? What will the consequences be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A promise made is a promise kept, regardless of the context. When making promises, be sure to think them through in order not to make foolish promises (see the book of Judges for examples). When Saul did not keep the promise of Israel to the Gibeonites, God judged his household and the nation. When we do not keep promises, who will be held accountable? What will the consequences be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,5],"tags":[150,36,106,89,32],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2-samuel","category-daily-studies","tag-chronicles","tag-david","tag-goliath","tag-king","tag-promises","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","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=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}