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2 SAM UEL 1
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As you read 2 Samuel, come face-to-face with your own failures, bring them to God,
beg for forgiveness, and then forget them. Recommit yourself to getting your heart back
in tune with God.
Key verses in 2 Samuel
5:12 And David realized that
the Lord had confirmed him as
king over Israel and had blessed
his kingdom for the sake of his
people Israel.
12:13 Then David confessed to
Nathan, “I have sinned against the
Lord.” Nathan replied, “Yes, but
the Lord has forgiven you.”
7:22 “How great you are,
O Sovereign Lord! There is no
one like you. We have never even
heard of another God like you!”
14:14 “But God does not just
sweep life away; instead he
devises ways to bring us back
when we have been separated
from him.”
8:15 So David reigned over all
Israel and did what was just and
right for all his people.
22:2-3 “The Lord is my rock, my
fortress, and my savior; my God is
my rock, in whom I find protection.
David Learns of Saul’s Death
After the death of Saul, David returned from
his victory over the Amalekites and spent
two days in Ziklag. 2 On the third day a man arrived from Saul’s army camp. He had torn his
clothes and put dirt on his head to show that he
was in mourning. He fell to the ground before
David in deep respect.
3 “Where have you come from?” David asked.
“I escaped from the Israelite camp,” the man
replied.
4 “What happened?” David demanded. “Tell
me how the battle went.”
The man replied, “Our entire army fled from
the battle. Many of the men are dead, and Saul
and his son Jonathan are also dead.”
5 “How do you know Saul and Jonathan are
dead?” David demanded of the young man.
6 The man answered, “I happened to be on
Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on
his spear with the enemy chariots and charioteers closing in on him. 7 When he turned and
saw me, he cried out for me to come to him.
‘How can I help?’ I asked him.
8 “He responded, ‘Who are you?’
“‘I am an Amalekite,’ I told him.
9 “Then he begged me, ‘Come over here and
put me out of my misery, for I am in terrible pain
and want to die.’
10 “So I killed him,” the Amalekite told David, “for I knew he couldn’t live. Then I took
his crown and his armband, and I have brought
them here to you, my lord.”
11 David and his men tore their clothes in sorrow when they heard the news. 12 They mourned
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1:18 Or The Book of the Upright. 1:21 The meaning of the
Hebrew is uncertain.
He is my shield, the power that
saves me, and my place of safety.
He is my refuge, my savior.”
22:47 “The Lord lives! Praise to
my Rock! May God, the Rock of
my salvation, be exalted!”
24:14 “I’m in a desperate
situation!” David replied to Gad.
“But let us fall into the hands of
the Lord, for his mercy is great.
Do not let me fall into human
hands.”
and wept and fasted all day for Saul and his
son Jonathan, and for the Lord’s army and the
nation of Israel, because they had died by the
sword that day.
13 Then David said to the young man who had
brought the news, “Where are you from?”
And he replied, “I am a foreigner, an Amalekite, who lives in your land.”
14 “Why were you not afraid to kill the Lord’s
anointed one?” David asked.
15 Then David said to one of his men, “Kill
him!” So the man thrust his sword into the Amalekite and killed him. 16 “You have condemned
yourself,” David said, “for you yourself confessed that you killed the Lord’s anointed one.”
David’s Song for Saul and Jonathan
17 Then David composed a funeral song for Saul
and Jonathan, 18 and he commanded that it be
taught to the people of Judah. It is known as the
Song of the Bow, and it is recorded in The Book
of Jashar.*
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Your pride and joy, O Israel, lies dead on
the hills!
Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen!
Don’t announce the news in Gath,
don’t proclaim it in the streets of
Ashkelon,
or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice
and the pagans will laugh in triumph.
O mountains of Gilboa,
let there be no dew or rain upon you,
nor fruitful fields producing offerings
of grain.*
For there the shield of the mighty heroes
was defiled;