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31 ABANDONING OF JERUSALEM 2 SAMUEL 15,16 TIMES WERE GETTING rougher and rougher for David, and things would get worse before they got better. The painful chastisements of David which we have seen in previous studies were not all of David’s chastisements. More chastisements for his adulterous sins were…

32 Attacked by Absalom 2 Samuel 17:1–18:18 Absalom was not content with obtaining Jerusalem and the palace and the concubines and many other things that went with the monarchy. No, he must go after David and destroy him. It is hard for decent people to imagine the condition of Absalom’s mind which moved…

36 Authorizing a Successor 1 Kings 1–2:11 Men habitually dispute God’s will. This was certainly the case concerning who was to be the successor of David as king of Israel. God had made it plain that Solomon was to be the successor to David, but that did not stop some men from disputing this fact and…

34 Afflicted by Famine 2 Samuel 21:1–14 The last three chapters of 2 Samuel form an instructive and interesting appendage to the book. They contain additional information regarding David’s life with the order of the information being recorded without regard to chronology. There are six distinct parts…

33 Aftermath of War 2 Samuel 18:19–20:22 Though a war has ended, the evil effects of the war often continue on for a long time, and the aftermath of a war is sometimes worse than the war itself. The aftermath of the war between Absalom and David almost turned out to be worse than the war itself (2 Samuel…

29. Atrocities Strike Family 2 Samuel 13 The bitter fruits of David’s adulterous sin now begin to multiply for him with a series of atrocities striking hard upon his family. In the previous chapter of Scripture was recorded the loss of the child conceived by adultery. But that great sorrow was only the…

35 Accursed for Numbering 2 Samuel 24 In this chapter of our book, we study another dark incident in David’s life. It is about a census David took of the men of Israel, and it tells us about the second of the two judgments (a pestilence) upon Israel which are recorded in the last few chapters of 2 Samuel…

30 Acceptance of Absalom 2 Samuel 14 David received more chastisement for his adulterous sins through the conduct of Absalom than from all other people combined. The chastisement of David began when David’s infant son died whom Bathsheba had borne to David. Next came the rape of David’s daughter Tamar…

XXVIII. Arraigned for Sinning 2 Samuel 12 Approximately a year went by after David committed his great sins involving Bathsheba and Uriah before he was ar-raigned by Nathan for his evil. We calculate this passage of time by the fact that when David was arraigned by Nathan, the child which had been conceived…

D. THE CONQUERING BY DAVID 2Sam. 12:26 Our text makes a sudden change in subject matter. It now returns to the war which Israel was having with the Ammonites. The war had become a prolonged war (F. C. Cook states that the war could have lasted “at least two years”). It was David’s dilatory absence from…