{"id":966,"date":"2012-04-25T20:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T03:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=966"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:24:22","slug":"2-samuel-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/04\/25\/2-samuel-15\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Samuel 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Samuel 15<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Absalom\u2019s rebellion begins here and continues until his death in 2 Samuel 19 (see the study to come). This chapter divides itself into the treason shown by Absalom (1-12) and avid fleeing from Jerusalem (13-37).<\/p>\n

Reading these first twelve verses lead us to believe that Absalom was quite bitter with his father. He spent five years away from him, and four years plotting his overthrow in the city of\u00a0Jerusalem. He slowly but steadily led people away from David and into his own favor by telling them what they want to hear (see our study of 2 Samuel 14 and the woman of Tekoa<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). Remember back to 2 Samuel 11 where Ahithophel\u00a0was introduced (<\/span>see our study<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>), he is brought\u00a0back to the story here. He was Bathsheba\u2019s grandfather who was also David\u2019s counselor. What he did in this chapter was a payback for what David did to his granddaughter and her husband, Uriah. He advises Absalom to do to David what David did to Uriah, take another man\u2019s wife. If Absalom could sleep with David\u2019s concubines, mistresses, or wives, he could lay claim to the throne. Ahithophel will present himself again in 2 Samuel 17 (see our study to come). By the end of this first division, Absalom has many followers and this act of treason growing the act of rebellion begins in the next division.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the next division, as David is fleeing, the author presents those who are faithful to God\u2019s king. There is Abiathar (see our studies in 1 Samuel 21-24<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, <\/span>1 Samuel 30<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>2 Samuel 8<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>), groups of people from various nations, and Ittai\u00a0the Gittite displays his loyalty to David much like Ruth did to Naomi (<\/span>see our studies in Ruth<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). David refuses to use the Ark as a symbol of protection. I believe he learned his lesson from Saul\u2019s misuse of the Ark in 1 Samuel (<\/span>see our study of 1 Samuel 5-7<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In order to have inside information, David sends his trusted advisor, Hushai, to give advice against Ahithophel. This leads to Ahithophel\u2019s ultimate suicide (see our study to come in 2 Samuel 17).<\/p>\n

The path David to on his escape from Jerusalem, David traveled the same route Jesus would take on the night of His betrayal along the Kidron Valley through the Mount of Olives.<\/p>\n

Who, in your life, speaks lies to your face in order to build you up to break you down? If you cannot think of one, and your are a Christian, might I suggest the father of lies, Satan? Be careful for he is out to devour you (1 Peter 5.8<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who, in your life, speaks lies to your face in order to build you up to break you down? If you cannot think of one, and your are a Christian, might I suggest the father of lies, Satan? Be careful for he is out to devour you (1 Peter 5.8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,5],"tags":[36,149,30,340,79,29],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2-samuel","category-daily-studies","tag-david","tag-deception","tag-peter","tag-ruth","tag-samuel","tag-satan","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}