40 Minutes In The Old Testament - 1 Kings 2:1-12 (Episode 292)

Episode Date: November 15, 2021

Chad and Daniel say goodbye to David in this episode. Before his death, David tells Solomon to remain faithful to God but also gives him a hit list. David is a complicated figure and goes down as the best king Israel ever had. Have a listen! 1517 Podcast Network 1517 YouTube Donate

Welcome to another episode of 40 Minutes in the Old Testament. 40 Minutes in the Old Testament is a 1517 Podcast Network podcast. You can go to 1517.org slash podcast. check out all the other podcasts that are living over there also uh by the way guys the new testament section of a field guide to the bible is now available i don't know if you guys checked that out or not when we did the old testament section but it's been a few months and we've dropped 10 episodes on the new testament uh it's uh it's fun so if you're looking for just a a refresher on the bible and you haven't maybe you haven't checked out the field guide at all if that's something

you're interested in it the entirety of it is available now wherever you typically listen to podcast. So go ahead and check out A Field Guide to the Bible. Chad's on that along with me and Eric. So it's a good time. Chad, we left off with Solomon being anointed king, Solomon deciding to not kill his brother, which is always a nice thing to do. Don't kill your brother. But also as a wise political move, because he had some support for being king. So not a good idea to start your sort of reign off with, you know, murdering your brother. That's not the greatest look, so you might as well start with a little mercy. The thing that's weird about this is that Solomon is essentially king, but also David is not dead yet. David has ensured the person that

I guess he wants, but definitely his wife wants, and that Nathan wants, and some other people want, he's ensured that he takes his place by sort of giving him the throne in advance yeah sort of a co-regency i guess you could say uh and probably was well i don't think it is probably to it it was a wise move given the fact that adonijah his oldest living son was already basically throwing his own coronation party it's like i don't want to be king dad's never said otherwise so hey let's have a big feast and we'll celebrate my coming kingship so if you know if david didn't want that or if bathsheba nathan didn't want that then probably yeah that was the best decision to go ahead and make him make him king while david his son i mean david his father is actually still

still alive but david's not going to be with us much more we're going to encounter his death in chapter in chapter 2 verses 10 and 11 and 12 so it's coming up pretty quick but before before David dies, he's got a few things he wants to pass down to his son. He's got some advice that he wants to give. And part of his advice is going to sound very theological, very almost pastoral, Moses-like, almost sounds like the kind of speech that Moses gave to Joshua when Joshua was going to take over the leadership of the nation of Israel. And nothing wrong with it. It all sounds very much like Deuteronomy. But after he gives this theological speech, he shifts gears and becomes quite the politician, and he gives him very explicit directives with regard to

three people. Two of these are negative, negative bits of advice, how to deal with these people shrewdly, and one of those is Joab, the other is Shammai, both of whom, of course, we have talked about before, and the other that he's supposed to deal positively with is a guy named Barzillai, the Gileadite, and we've met him before, too. So we'll get to those first nine verses, hear what David has to say, then the death of David, and then we'll see through a kind of a strange series of events how Solomon, this newly established king, begins to deal with various people who are real or perceived threats to his reign. Yeah, as David is dying, we see that the symbol is alive and well in David, so he's got this sort of very saintly-sounding words for Solomon,

and then he has some very human-sounding words for Solomon. Yeah, let me give you some God talk, and then let me turn around and whisper in your ear some real kind of harsh, bloody, political advice. So the symbol is certainly alive and well in David, up until the very end, and his dying words. Listeners, don't make these your dying words. david's dying words is you shall bring his gray head down with blood to show

that's it yeah that's not that's not what you want not a good way to go out yeah not not exactly the same as uh father forgive them they know not what they do or maybe like martin luther's dying words uh we are beggars all this is true uh that would have been a good that would have been a good one for david david could have confessed that we're all beggars David should have just died praying Psalm 51 that would have been the best way for him to go out probably so so first of all in these first four verses

he's going to command Solomon to basically live according to what the Lord said through Moses to the people of Israel back in Deuteronomy when David's time to die drew near he commanded his son Solomon saying

I'm about to go the way of all the earth be strong and show yourself a man. In Hebrew, that's pretty literal, just to be a man. Va hayita la'ish. Just, yeah, show yourself a man, be a man, whatever that entails.

But David says, I'm basically going the way of all mortality. I'm going the way of all the earth and the woods, I'm about to die. So I want you to be strong. And that is very Joshua, Moses to Joshua sounding term. It's the same verb in Hebrew

that we have back in Deuteronomy, as well as the beginning chapters of joshua and he says i want you to keep the charge of the lord your god walking in his ways keeping his statutes his commandments his rules and his testimonies as is written in the law of moses a nice sevenfold structure there by the way you've got seven different ways of referring to the word of god charge way statutes commandments rules testimonies and then torah so a good completeness there in that that speech of david then he goes on so do all this keep god's word that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn and that the lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me and here he's hearkening back to

second samuel 7 saying if your sons pay close attention to their way to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul you shall not lack a man on the throne of israel so david is basically saying to to solomon i want you to do actually what god commanded back in deuteronomy when he said when israel has kings just what they are to do they're to make a copy of the the torah and to study it that's more or less what david's selling psalm to do to to know the word of god to keep to keep the lord's covenant to be faithful to him and then to be the kind of king who will sit on the throne and reign in place of his father david so you know everything sounds pretty good so far i don't think there's anything that we could uh

criticize about that very uh short and uh Torah kind of speech of father to son it is interesting that David believes and this is true that the king is sort of charged with keeping Israel's fidelity to God intact you could look at this and and think that like well what they what David's telling him is to make sure that he obeys the commandments and stuff but it's not it's not just about that like hey make sure that you're a good and decent Christian man that's what you need to be—I mean, this is really more about, as you go, so the nation goes. Telling him to keep the commandments and to be attentive to the Word of God is telling him to keep fidelity to Yahweh and not flirt around with idolatry. Because, I mean, this is the massive temptation. And thus

far, Israel's been pretty good about it. They've had two kings that have at least not dabbled in in idolatry and it'd be nice if that kept going by the way uh solomon does not do this that's what i was about to say he it was only halfway with his thing when his dad dad said this to him but it's a great point to make by the way at the beginning of of kings because that's going to be what we see right all the way through the end of second kings is time after time you have a king and uh you really you begin you have to begin to think differently with regard to these these leaders than the way that we think about our political leaders today you know so if you look at any poll okay how how well is the president doing

or if you're in another country how well is your leader doing well chances are the vast majority of the time how are leaders evaluated or they're evaluated monetarily right economically we don't sit around be like this guy's poll numbers are in the toilet because idolatry is everywhere like But that is the case in Israel. For Israel, when God's doing the approval rating, the thing that he's looking at, I mean, it's not, oh, did you mess up over here? Did you mess up over there? The thing is how we do it on the idolatry thing.

Are the people worshiping Yahweh and Yahweh alone, or are we worshiping other gods here? I mean, this is the big thing, and you know it's the big thing because it's the thing that always gets them in trouble always yeah so monotheism and monotheistic uh worship that is that that's a criteria criterion by which all these kings are judged it's never like uh this king did well because he uh was able to establish a a treaty alliance with egypt or something like that or whatever it might be or this king did really well because man the economy was just fantastic he came up he came up with an incredible taxation plan that just everyone really thought it was fair and they weren't getting taxed too much but all the needs

are being met and what what a brilliant economic strategy no none of that it's uh how's fidelity to yahweh going that's what we need to know that's what it is yeah and we'll we'll see uh time after time where especially the kings of judah i mean the kings of the north after the split of the kingdom and they're basically all bad i mean yeah there's a couple in there that god uses in some unique sorts of ways but pretty much all them are awash but the kings of the south of judah they're all evaluated according to this criteria so how well do they do with regard to making sure that they as the god appointed leaders of the country were keeping people on the the monotheistic straight and narrow i mean this is what it means when david says like

pay close attention to their way to walk before me in faithfulness to walk before god in faithfulness in this context is just to walk before him and not anyone else like to be faithful to him not to be like not to be stepping out on him with other with other gods flirting around with other gods marrying up with other gods uh that's what david is saying that god is asking of solomon To be faithful, in other words, to only have me as your God. Yeah, as we've pointed out before, all the other gods of the ancient world were fine with you sleeping around theologically and liturgically. Long as you did some worship of them, that was fine. You could worship as many other gods as you wanted to.

That's what set apart Yahweh. He was a monogamous deity. He wanted you only, and he wanted you to want him only. That was one of the uniquenesses of Yahweh. And now what you have, this transition here is hilarious based on what we just talked about. He's saying, listen, what you're going to need to do is walk before God with faithfulness. And me, as a man who walked before God with faithfulness, I have a couple other things I need you to do. Moreover.

Oh, yeah. There were a couple more things I needed to add. Besides fidelity to Yahweh, I need you to take some people out. I've got a hit list for you. I mean, it is interesting that David doesn't think that telling Solomon to be faithful to God is in conflict with what he's about to tell him to do at all. That's how you know that he's really talking about worship here. Make sure you keep worshiping God. Also, I'm going to need you to do these things over here.

And these things, they're not opposed to worshiping God alone. So he's not talking about, like, just make sure you always do the right thing, because he's about to tell him to do a bunch of the wrong thing. he's literally just talking about worship yeah yeah that's pretty much it so what are these other things well we got we got three people that are addressed here when david talks to solomon so three different people that that david has had dealings with and as i mentioned earlier two of them negatively one of them one positively so verse five we'll start with joab moreover you know what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders

of the armies of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace. Avenging, by the way, is a bit too strong of a translation for that Hebrew verb.

It just means setting in time. It's a very general sort of word, so avenging is a little bit stronger there. So avenging or whatever, how everyone translate that in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals on his feet act therefore according to your wisdom but do not let his gray head go down to show in peace there was i don't know where to start with this there are so many problems of this

uh the most blatant for me is uh the sheer hypocrisy of david yeah because talk about a man who is he gives the picture here of joab having the blood of war on his belt on his waist and he kind of pictures him as this blood old man for one thing he is an old man i mean he's been with david all these years david's old this guy i don't know how old he is he maybe i don't know 70s 80s i mean he's an old guy he's an old warrior and david pictures him splattered with blood now the man saying this david once wrote a letter to this same person joab telling him to make sure that uriah got killed in battle a man who was totally innocent uh so the hypocrisy is strong on on this one i mean that's there's a lot of things we could say but that on the surface

anyway that seems to be the most blatant wrong that that is that's going on here well i mean how about the fact that you're like you know the things he did these things were done a long time ago a long time yeah a long time ago and he's like you know about these things i'm like well why didn't you get rid of him if these could it be that you just used him this whole time because you knew that he was the best general you had and that he was winning all kinds of victories for you and then you were just holding on to this and now there's a little conjecture here but it seems to me that david has been out of shape that joab is going to outlive him highly likely this is what it seems like to me these are two old men and david is telling his new the new king his son

obviously i'm gonna die before joab and that's not sitting well with me i'm gonna bring up all this stuff i'm gonna want you to make sure that this old man doesn't die in peace but you know be faithful to god at all it's true i mean i don't know i mean i suppose that and i have read commentators that try and spin this in a positive direction i can't i just can't do it uh for all those reasons that we just pointed out. If this was so wrong and this is so evil, just such a

breach of loyalty, just such a horrific thing, David had opportunity after opportunity to execute justice against Joab, and he didn't time and time again. I think this has, again,

there's a little bit of speculation, but based on just what we've read, going through the life of David, I would suspect that this has more to do with Absalom than it does with Joab killing some guy that David doesn't really care about anyway. I have a feeling that David never really let that whole thing go, even though that was entirely his fault. And Joab only did what he did with Absalom. It wasn't like Joab wanted to do that. Joab was trying to reconcile the two of them he did it because he had to because david's entire kingdom

was in jeopardy but i don't know it doesn't i've never seen anything in the text i mean that says that david ever got over the fact that he knows that it was joab who killed absalom even though it was david who put him in the position to have to do so and we know that he didn't initially get over it because he removed joab from the position of general after doing that then joab just goes and kills the guy that he put in his place and just takes his spot back i'm sure that solomon knows like yeah i remember that like when you know my sister got raped and you didn't do anything about it then you banished him and then he came back and then you didn't want to see him and then he tried to take over the kingdom yeah i remember all that maybe david didn't want to bring that up

to solomon so instead he's like man there was this time way back in the day where he killed a guy and it wasn't even wartime, which is insane coming from the mouth of David. Yeah, I can't think of anything worse coming from David than that. Can you believe somebody killed a man in cold blood? Yeah, really hard to believe, David, that someone would actually engage in that kind of behavior. So that's only the beginning. So that's Joab, and we will see in the rest of the chapter how this all goes down. But that's the first directive.

He's the first one on Solomon's hit list. Now, before we get to the second person that's supposed to be dealt with negatively, we'll intersperse it with the good guy here. Verse 7. But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table. For with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother. Oh, there's Absalom. There you go.

So there, Absalom shows up here. But if you remember that detail, it was during the coup when David and all his men had to flee. Then Barzillai and some other people, but Barzillai in particular helped them out, brought him some food, took care of him. And then David offered to bring Barzillai back to Jerusalem to take care of him there and to reward him. But Barzillai is basically like, listen, listen, David, I really appreciate that, but I'm really old. I'm not going to enjoy living in the capital city. Let me stay here and die in peace in my home. but hey take my son uh and you can you can reward him and he can be my proxy and david's like cool

we'll we'll do that you know who else uh dealt loyally you know with uh with uh david when he was fleeing from absalom joab yes right speaking of speaking of speaking of loyalty yeah your your nephew joe i remember him yeah just about as loyal as you can as you can get with regard to to david i wonder if solomon said they're like be like uh and how exactly were you delivered out of the hand of absalom i'm like i'm like i'm not understanding this at all like you gotta you gotta refresh my memory you gotta deal great with these guys because they were great to me in that whole absalom thing you're like well speaking of absalom the other guy you just told me not to let go to this grave in peace seems like you would not be here right now if it wasn't for him but

yeah it's just me he played no minor role in making sure you were restored to your to your kingship okay so that's uh two of them that's joe and barzillai now uh we have shemay so he says there is also with you now that with you is important so there's also with you shemay the son of gera the benjaminite from bahurim so what does it mean there's also with you well if you go back to chapter one of first kings when we have the the whole scheme of of the plan of adonijah to become king were told that some people were not with adonijah and so they were where they were with with david and on this list is zadok the priest and benaiah the son of jehoiada and nathan the prophet and shemay first kings chapter 1 verse 8 so shemay this guy that is about to be

talked about by david to solomon he's actually on solomon's side so uh you know is he just basically a political gambler and he's putting his money on the guy that he thinks is going to be the best best to go with we don't know but he's he is at least not anti-solomon he wasn't on adonijah's side he is actually on on solomon's side so there's also with you shemay the son of gara the benjaminite from baharim who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when i went to Mahanaim. He's talking about the day that he had to flee Jerusalem when Absalom attacked, when Absalom

staged his coup. And you remember that, you might remember that whole scene when, I mean, it is quite unforgettable. David's fleeing from Jerusalem and Absalom is staging his coup and Shimei goes out there and he's throwing rocks and he's, I mean, he's like

laying into David, cursing him up one side and down the other. David's who's the other the other nephew that always wants to cut people's heads off oh anyway whatever his name is joe has a brother he wants he wants to go chop shimei's head off and uh david's like no no we're not going to do that uh not not going to kill him and then afterward when the coup fails david's and his men come back shimei comes out to greet him and basically apologizes for what he's done and david swore at that time as we're about to hear

He swore at that time that he would not put him to death, kind of a big clemency that was given to a huge kind of absolution pronounced on a whole lot of people when David came back to power. So that's a context. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, that is when I came back, and he apologized, I swore to him. So David says, I swore to Shimei by the Lord, saying, I won't put you to death with the sword. so okay david swore i'm not going to kill you i'm not going to in other words exact vengeance against you for cursing me when i was fleeing from jerusalem swore by the lord not only yeah just didn't just say you know i won't do this he actually swore in the name of yahweh saying i won't do this now that's a that's a weird thing to say given the transition we're about to hear

in verse nine. Now, therefore, therefore usually means that this is a logical conclusion. This is not a logical conclusion. Now, therefore, do not hold him guiltless for you are a wise man. This is not a good, this is not a good absolution. You, and I love this line. You'll know what to do with him. And then these are, these are David's last recorded words. These are the words I quoted earlier that you don't want to be on your lips as you're passing from this from this life and you shall bring his gray hair down with blood to show the end of david that's closing words so uh i and i suspect by the way if you're wondering why does he add with blood here because back in the day when shemay was cursing david he called david a man of blood basically

accused him of of establishing his kingship taking away the kingship from saul and his family by means of by means of bloodshed which of course was not true but that was the accusation so i suspect that's the reason that david throws in that phrase uh with with blood so one more old man he does not want to die in peace and he doesn't tell solomon what to do he just says hey you're smart you're wise you'll figure something out you'll find a legal loophole here, so you'll know what to do. And as we'll see, Solomon does find a legal loophole, and he does come up with a way to deal with Shammai in accordance with the will of his father. It's a good thing that the son of David doesn't do absolution the way that David

does absolution. There's swearing by the Lord that you won't do something, and then saying to somebody else, make sure you don't hold him guiltless. Again, this seems like David's very irritated that these that there's some people that he is not going to outlive yeah yeah i i i think that's probably part of what's going on here and uh he doesn't want them running around the kingdom doing stuff with him not there to to oversee it you know he doesn't who knows what this guy is gonna do when i'm gone i'm not i can't i can't have that so i'm gonna tell my son to get rid of these two guys because the way that david seems to think that he can die in peace is to know that joab and shemay won't be doing things in the kingdom without him there yeah i'm sure that

david still being very much of a political animal realizes to you know these these people are potential threat to all that i've done to establish this kingdom and now i'm handing on to my son and who knows what they might do even though yeah shemay's on supposedly on solomon's side now what will they do in the future and joab for sure i mean david has been afraid of him for a long time so and of course joab was just most recently on the side not of not of solomon but of adonijah so david is probably thinking ahead of time he's like any sinner he's got mixed motives for saying what he does he's got personal vendettas he's obviously been holding on this whole time to anger at shemay for cursing him that day even though he said that he for gave him

and made the oath he obviously has not let it go so he's holding on these personal grievances and he's got these you know he's trying to think ahead politically to what might happen when uh when he's gone and and Solomon is is king so he comes up with uh this uh this plan I mean I mean it is weird that he doesn't say to Solomon you need to take these guys out because you can't trust Joab because Joab's got the loyalty of the men and he already sided with your brother so you gotta take him out and shemay is a loose cannon and uh and he already cursed me out and he will not be helpful to you he's just he's just going to be a pain uh as you start your reign so you gotta take him out those aren't the like if those were the reasons he gave you might be able to say

well this is like really really cold but it's just purely pragmatic instead the reasons david gives is these are immoral people let me tell you some of the stuff they did that's wild yeah That reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther from his Genesis lectures. He says, sin never wants to be sin. It always wants to be righteousness. Yeah. So, you know, David doesn't come right out and say what you were describing there. You know, take these guys out because I don't like them.

I mean, I don't like what they did to me. And so just kill them. No, he's got to come up with pious sounding reasons because he doesn't want his sin to be sin. He wants it to be righteousness. You got to kill these guys. they are unrighteous they are yeah these are unrighteous immoral people so yeah he david pulls a typical sinner move there he's he is cloaking his sin beneath uh the the uh appearance of righteousness but uh it's it's pretty pretty thinly veiled pretty easy to see through what's

happening there so uh well we get we got to have uh the death of david that's that's next verse 10 then david slept with his father's typical old testament expression where you go to be with your uh your family uh before you so he slept with his fathers that is he he died and was buried with his fathers in the city of david uh so that that part of part of jerusalem and the time that david reigned over israel was 40 years another typical expression he reigned seven years in hebron 33 years in jerusalem you remember that those first few years things were kind of touch and go, because you had Saul's son, Ish-bosheth, who was reigning over some of the tribes, and you had David, who was reigning over some of the tribes, and then finally, that situation

was resolved, and David was proclaimed king over everybody. And then he took Jerusalem, became the capital city, so for 33 years, he was in Jerusalem. So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established. by the way that verb for uh established occurs one two three different times back in second samuel 7 that text that i'm always referring to where god promised to establish a dynasty for david he says i will establish his kingdom i will establish the throne of his kingdom forever your throne shall be established forever he says that in second samuel 7 11 through 16 so that particular verb is going to be repeated here in first kings to show that what god said

he would do back in second samuel is now actually happening god is establishing david's throne he's he is at least beginning to establish david's dynasty which of course is going to go on for for for a long time i will say that as we sort of are done now uh with the life of david i'm sure some people would be like man these guys were hard on David they're like they're always pointing out like what kind of a hypocrite this dude was and this whole time and my entire life as a Christian I had always heard that you know David kind of had like one big blunder but overall like he was he was it man and like he is I mean they're making me wonder why it is that the people of Israel were always wanting another king like David I think uh now that David's gone it you you do have to

understand that there isn't another king like David in Israel's history. There's not somebody who has the military prowess that he does that makes Israel mighty the way that David did. David is unique in all those ways, in all the ways that you would, if you were just a person living in a kingdom. I mean, David is like, I mean, he is the top. I mean, David expands the kingdom he's undefeated basically and so all of that stuff i think about david is true david's a great sinner he also pens uh the greatest words of repentance we probably have in in the scriptures and he pens the songbook of the bible i mean a good portion of it a large percentage of it so for all those reasons you know david is who he is and this is why he is considered like the

greatest king of israel and the one that they every other king is compared to it's it's not all bad with david it just because those things are true about david and those are the things that get emphasized about david so much it is important that when you read through the story you realize that that's not all he is that he is also uh you know a top shelf sinner as well yeah well that's one of the great things about doing what we've done too and we've talked about this off air many times one of the great things about walking through the story of david slowly like we do verse by verse story by story you know getting into all these details and i'm sure there's i'm sure there's people out there be like god you guys need to hurry up you know we get to get to

the next thing well one of the advantages of taking your time and just kind of stewing on some of these stories is you do really get to to know david better you don't kind of have the surface impression of him that is, yeah, it's pretty popular. Oh, David's a man after God's own heart. Well, yeah, not disputing that, but that's only one side of David. There's a whole lot of different sides to David. And one of the beauties of getting to know David the way that we have is that at the same time, you get to know yourself so much better. People might perceive one thing about you, but if your whole life was written down, like David's life was written down, They'd know all the good, the bad, and the very, very ugly about you.

And that's what we've gotten to know about David. It turns out he was a fantastic king, the best king that Israel ever had. All the other kings after him will be judged according to the rule of David. So they'll more or less say, so was he like David? Did he walk after the Lord the way that David did? Yes, no, a little bit, a little bit not. so he does become the the regal rule by which all the rest of the kings of judah are going to be measured but that was that was one part of david they was a uh a multi-faceted person who uh as we

saw to his dying breath was symbol used to step across where he was simultaneously saint and sinner doing great things doing very terrible selfish things but in that way he then becomes kind of a an icon of ourselves because we're we're in the same boat as as david was yeah yeah i think that's right and you know and it's encouraging because uh this is uh the man who god has chosen to uh to bring his son through he's like this is the guy if you go through the genealogy of jesus i mean david is the standout thing right i mean that jesus takes this title i mean he is the the son of david david is the the sort of uh patriarch of of the entire lineage of jesus i mean obviously you have abraham and isaac and jacob but jesus doesn't go around calling himself the son of

jacob you know so yeah and i think i pointed out recently i think it was on this podcast uh two or three of the prophets actually call the messiah david you know i know that jeremiah does Hosea does. But they don't call the Messiah by other names of the people from the Old Testament, but they do call him David because he is so closely aligned in his messianic mission with David that he actually takes on that title of his father, if you will, since he is the son of David. So, yeah, so for all the ways we focused on many of David's weaknesses and foibles and sins, there's lots of parts to him. But he is the one that God chose above all others to be the black and white portrait that the Messiah will fill in with full color. Yeah, well, and the thing that's important about Jesus or identifying himself with David is that Jesus is a king.

And so this is why when they say he's the son of David, they're talking about the kingdom. I mean, Jesus dies with king of the Jews, like, placarded above his head. Jesus, when asked if he was a king, he doesn't say no. That is not his answer. He says, you say it is so. In other words, you've said correctly. You have spoken the truth.

When people start to think about the Messiah going forward from David, they are thinking about a king because David is a king. you know jesus gets this uh this title like prophet priest and king and that king part is really is really tight like begins with david yeah it doesn't so much begin with saul as much as it does with david because it's to david that promise is given uh about the establishment of his of his throne of his dynasty and uh so christ or messiah uh begins to be associated most closely with with kingship so when you think of jesus christ you're basically saying jesus king the one who is has been been anointed to finally be that last in the line of david who will uh reign on the throne of

david but in a very different kind of throne yeah i mean he's first got a cross throne that he's going to sit on before he sits at his father's right hand yeah if you if you think of the messiah as saying well the messiah is the son of abraham which of course he is you do not say oh well therefore he must be a king. You don't say that. But if you say the Messiah is the son of David, you say, well, therefore he's the king. Yeah.

So that brings us to the end of our 40 minutes, but also to the end of David. It's been extremely enjoyable for us to walk through this and to meet him as that young kid, that shepherd, all the way down to where he's at now, the old man on his deathbed uh giving these mafia directions to his son but uh and it is welcome to the colorful life of david yeah it is wild as you go through it i mean we i feel like we've been talking about david for a long time now and i guess i forget when i'm just

reading through stuff as you walk through it slowly it is a lot of ink that's spilled on the life of david i mean so much more than it is spilled on so many other characters i mean you get a lot about David. We won't get this much ink spilled about one particular person again at all. No, not at all. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think we said at the beginning of 1 and 2 Samuel that really these books should have been called 1 and 2 David. Yeah. Because he is the main character. So a lot of material about him. I feel like he is one of those biblical characters where you do really get to dig down deep into his personality and get to know him well,

which is great because he's not a boring person. He is anything but boring. He's fascinating. All right. Well, that's going to do it for this episode. Next episode, we'll get into the reign of Solomon. We'll see how Solomon, well, we'll see what Solomon does with these orders

that David has given him and how that plays out. Chad, I'll see you next week. See you then. We'll see you next time.