2 SAMUEL

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Updated 12/2023





CHAPTER 1

  1. An Amalekite brought news of Saul’s death.
  2. The Amalekite claimed to have killed Saul upon his request. David executed him for raising a hand against the Lord's anointed.

CHAPTER 2

  1. Ish-Bosheth, Saul's son was made king over Israel by Abner, the commander of Saul's army.
  2. Judah was the only tribe to follow David.
  3. David reigned seven and a half years in Hebron.
  4. Twelve men on each side died in the contest between Abner and Joab’s men.
  5. Asahel, Joab's brother was killed by Abner.
  6. David lost twenty men and Abner lost three hundred sixty men in the battle between Judah and Israel.

CHAPTER 3

  1. David had six sons by six wives at this time.
  2. Abner, after all his loyalty to Saul's house, was accused by Ish-Bosheth of taking for himself Saul's former concubine.
  3. Abner resolved to make sure Israel would be under David's leadership.
  4. David requested that Michal, his first wife, be brought to him as a condition to the covenant with Abner.
  5. Joab accused Abner of deceiving David so he could overcome David.
  6. Joab killed Abner in revenge for the death of his brother Asahel.
  7. David pronounced sickness, disease, death, and poverty upon Joab’s household and his descendants. However, he did pronounce also to let the Lord repay the evildoer (Joab) according to his wickedness.

CHAPTER 4

  1. When Mephibosheth (Jonathan's son) was five years old his nurse, after hearing of Saul’s death, fled with him in her arms but fell making him lame.
  2. Two men, Rechab and Baanah who were captains of Saul's troops, killed Ish-bosheth.
  3. David had Rechab and Baanah killed because they had killed an innocent person.

CHAPTER 5

  1. David was thirty years old when he became a king.
  2. David reigned a total of forty years.
  3. Eleven more children were born to David in Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 6

  1. a. Ussah was killed for touching the ark. b. Uzzah was not sanctified or ceremonially cleaned. (see 1 Chronicles 15:12-14).
  2. a. The Ark of the Covenant was left at the house of Obed-Edom. b. While the Arkwas there, the house of Obed-Edom was blessed by the Lord.
  3. David sought to humble himself before God.

CHAPTER 7

  1. a. David wanted to build a house of cedar for God to live in. b. The house for God would be built not by David but by a son of David.

CHAPTER 8

  1. Approximately one-third of the men of Moab were kept alive.
  2. David dedicated to the all the silver and gold that he got of the nations he defeated
  3. The nation of Edom (the descendants of Esau) became the servants of David fulfilling the word spoken to Rebekah (Gen. 25:23).

CHAPTER 9

  1. David wanted to show kindness to anyone still living of the house of Saul for the sake of his friend, Jonathan.
  2. David gave the land of Mephibosheth's grandfather (Saul) to Mephibosheth with servants to work it and had Mephibosheth eat at his table every night.

CHAPTER 10

  1. David wanted to show kindness to him as Hanun's father had done for Him.
  2. a. The princes of Ammon (wrongly) perceived that David's servants were spies. b. Hanin cut off half the servants of David's beards and cut out the middle of the backs of their garments.
  3. David attacked and defeated the Syrian army severely, killing forty thousand horsemen and seven hundred charioteers.

CHAPTER 11

  1. David sent Joab in the spring of the year to attack Ammon,
  2. David committed adultery with Bathsheba.
  3. David first tried to get Uriah to go home and hopefully lay with his wife. Therefore, Uriah would think the child was his.
  4. David had Joab put Uriah in the front line of the fiercest battle and retreat from him. He hoped that Uriah would be struck down by the enemy.

CHAPTER 12

  1. God said the sword would not depart from David's house, his wives will be taken from him, and the child with Bathsheba would die.
  2. While the child was still alive, David hoped God would have mercy on him and spare the child's life.
  3. Solomon was born next for David and Bathsheba.

CHAPTER 13

  1. Amnon  raped Tamar.
  2. Absalom had Amnon killed.
  3. Absalom fled to Geshur for three years.

CHAPTER 14

  1. Joab plotted to have Absalom return.
  2. It was two years before Absalom saw David.

CHAPTER 15

  1. Absalom conspired against David to be the judge for all the people’s cases. He did so by treating them kindly as a man of the people.
  2. Ittai the Gittite from Gath remained with David
  3. Zadok the priest and Abiathar became informants for David.
  4. Hushai would counter advise Ahithophel for David.

CHAPTER 16

  1. Mephibosheth stayed in Jerusalem for perhaps the kingdom would be returned to him.
  2. a. Shimei, a servant of Saul cursed David and threw rocks at him. b. David felt Shimei was sent from God and perhaps God will have mercy on his suffering.
  3. Ahithophel advised Absalom to go into his father's concubines so all Israel will hear that he is abhorred by his father David. This will strengthen the men with Absalom.

CHAPTER 17

  1. Ahithophel  avice to Absalom was to attack David now and kill only Him.
  2. Hushai counter advised Absalom to wait until he had all Israel behind him and then attack David.
  3. A young lad saw Jonathan and Ahimaaz going to inform David.
  4. Ahithophel went to his home and put things in order and then hanged himself.

CHAPTER 18

  1. David wanted Absalom to brought back safe.
  2. David’s men killed twenty thousand Israelites in the battle
  3. Absalom’s head got caught in a terebinth tree and Joab killed him while he was hanging from the tree.
  4. David wept and wished that he had died in Absalom's place.

CHAPTER 19

  1. David had turned their victory over the rebellion into mourning for his son, Absalom.
  2. Amasa was made commander of the army in place of Joab.
  3. Shimei, the one who had cursed David and threw rocks at him when he had to flee Jerusalem, met David at the river begging for forgiveness.
  4. Mephibosheth said Ziba, his servant, had deceived and slandered him leaving him behind.
  5. The men of Israel felt the men of Judah were trying to isolate David  for themselves.

CHAPTER 20

  1.  Sheba, a Benjamite, and all the men of Israel rebelled against David and Judah.
  2. Amasa was to gather all the men of Judah together in three days to go after Sheba.
  3. Amasa shows up for the battle against Sheba but Joab kills him with a sword.
  4. a. Sheba fled to the city of Abel. b. The people of Abel were known for making peace and giving wise counsel. c. Upon the advice of a wise woman in the city, the people found Sheba, cut off his head, and gave it to Joab.

CHAPTER 21

  1. There was a famine on the land; sent by God; for the blood of the Gibeonites shed by Saul had not been paid for.
  2. The Gibeonites wanted seven descendants of the household of Saul to be given to them for hanging.
  3. David had the bones of Saul and Jonathan dug up and buried with the seven descendants of Saul who were hanged by the Gibeonites.
  4. Four more giants were killed by David and his men.

CHAPTER 22

  1. God was David’s strength and who led him.
  2. God delivered David from the shadow of death.
  3. God was with David because he was righteous and followed God.
  4. God gave David strength during the battles.

CHAPTER 23

  1. David was to rule over his people justly and in the fear of God.
  2. a. Adino, Eleazar, and Shammah were the three mightiest men who fought the Philistines b. Adino killed 800 men at one time. Eleazar fought the Philistines until he was weary and his hand stuck to the sword, securing a great victory. Shammah defended a field by himself against the Philistines.
  3. Abishai fought three hundred men and was captain of the three greatest men.
  4. Benaiah killed the Egyptian and was like the three greatest men.
  5. Thirty-seven men made a name for themselves.

CHAPTER 24

  1. David  numbered his men who were warriors.
  2. David  knew God could be merciful and man may not be merciful.