40 Minutes In The Old Testament - 2 Samuel 6:1-23 (Episode 264)

Episode Date: April 25, 2021

David attempts to bring the Ark to Jerusalem on a "new cart", but high anthropology causes this to go very badly. A second attempt goes better and David dances wildly in the street to the disgust of one of his wives. Chad and Daniel discuss all of this. Have a listen! 1517 Podcast Network Christ and the Christian Conference 1517 YouTube Donate

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This is our first recording since the Northwest Arkansas regional event, which went pretty well. It was a good time. It was a good time. Yeah, I mean, we had a great turnout, great conference, great speakers. uh just uh i mean you you've been uh you've been bragging about northwest arkansas for

basically the whole time i've known you right yeah yeah uh telling telling everybody what an awesome place it is and as it turns out you're right it is it's a very cool place my wife and i had a had a great time we hung out actually a couple extra days and uh checked out some of the surrounding area it's it's a it's a very well the city itself is cool the area around it's beautiful so uh hopefully we'll be heading back that way yeah absolutely yeah it was a good time man you could tell the people you know when you do an event like that and it sells out so fast uh and then you know just being there you could tell that people were excited to be together again i mean that was uh oh yeah you couldn't have had an easier crowd to talk to man they were ready for

it yeah we were all like we were starving for like face-to-face human interaction and thankfully we had a lot of that yeah yeah so that was that was fun you got i'm sure that the videos from that uh from that event will be coming out soon so they're being edited and everything right now but all the talks and and all the i think i think even the the music and stuff is going to be released so you guys can enjoy that good all right well we are in second samuel chapter six david is now kicking it as king over all of Israel. He's taken Jerusalem and beat down some Philistines. So chapter five is kind of an eventful chapter. He gets crowned king officially, takes the capital city, or what will be the capital city, and just beats down a bunch of enemies and, you know,

kind of makes friends with Tyre. And so there's a lot that's going on in chapter five. I think that maybe if you just read it you would you know or maybe some of the significance of all those things would uh be lost on you because they happen so fast but something else is going to happen in chapter six here that is also very significant yeah yeah chapter six is a strange chapter i mean you can so you got uh you got some marital problems coming up here uh we got uh we got a case of david having trouble with uh one of his wives so pretty interesting heated exchange between david and mccall that's actually at the end of the chapter and then you have i probably one of the more well-known and unliked stories actually in the old testament that is our friend uh azza or uzza

or however you want to say his name most people say azza right yeah yeah yeah so you have the case of azza and he's the guy who uh touched the ark big big mistake so we'll find out why he did and what happened to him. Yeah, I think there's no way that Raiders of the Lost Ark doesn't pull a lot of its theology straight from this story. Oh, yeah. They were totally right in that movie with Second Samuel open in front of them.

So you got that. And then, okay, what are you going to do with the Ark now? So we have the story of the second attempt to transport the Ark and David and his linen ephod dancing. Anyway, it's actually some pretty fascinating material for a lot of reasons coming up here. We start out with something that's going to actually be important for us to keep in mind when we're reading about this transport of the ark.

And that is the transport of an ark that took place back in 1 Samuel. So here's how the chapter starts out. And when it starts out this way, we're supposed to make a connection between what's happening here and what happened earlier. This is the first verse. It says, David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, 30,000. All right, so you hear that and you're thinking, okay, I don't get it. What are we supposed to make a connection to? Well, that's 2 Samuel 6, verse 1.

If you go back to 1 Samuel chapter 4, which is also about the Ark of the Covenant, except this is about the loss of the Ark of the Covenant. 1 Samuel chapter 4, verse 10 says that on the day that the Philistines took the Ark of the Covenant, 30,000 Israelite soldiers fell dead on the battlefield. So 30,000 there on the day the Ark was captured and taken by the Philistines. Now David gathers 30,000 men in order to go get the Ark of the Covenant from the place where it has been for the last long time. I mean, maybe a century or thereabout. So that number itself is supposed to kind of be a key to help us put both these stories kind of side by side. And we'll see some more examples of parallels between these two stories as well. So David gets up and takes all these people with him to, here it's called Baale Judah, or Baal Judah.

This is another name for a place that's called Kiriath Yaarim. And Kiriath Yaarim is the place where the Ark has been for all these decades. I think we talked about this in that earlier episode, but archaeologists, at least some archaeologists, now think that Kiriath Yadarim, that's the Old Testament name of the city, is the city that we know by the New Testament name of Emmaus, because of those two disciples that walked those six or seven miles to Emmaus. Emmaus. There's been some findings in Emmaus, or findings in Kiriath Yerim, which lead archaeologists to believe actually these are one in the same place. So anyway, got three names. You could call it Emmaus, you can call it Kiriath Yerim, you can call it Ba'ale Judah, but whatever you want to call it, it's the Ark City. That's where the Ark has been. So it brings all these guys, they go to this place and it says it's which is the ark which is called by the name which is a pretty

fascinating way to describe the ark of the covenant the name the very name of the lord of hosts who is enthroned above the cherubim so you're all familiar with the ark of the covenant we talked about lots of times but you got these two cherubim they're on one on either side their wings are outstretched they're facing one another and in the mind of the israelites that is the throne of god so the the the base of that which would be the the seat of atonement that's like the footstool and the lord's throne is invisibly between the the two cherubim and other texts will talk about how god puts his name there his name is synonymous with himself so where you have the name of god there you have the presence of god so god can later say that he's putting his name

into the holy of holies in the temple by that he simply means he's putting himself but the name of god and god himself are basically communicating the same thing so we have the uh these guys with david they're going to get the ark now their first mistake they make is they put the ark of god on a cart specifically referred to as a new cart they make a mistake here because if you're familiar with the laws about the transportation of not only the Ark of the Covenant, but all the different parts of the tabernacle, first of all, only the Levites were supposed to carry these utensils. And actually one particular family or clan within the Levites were supposed to carry the parts of the tabernacle. And they weren't supposed to carry it by putting it into a cart.

They were supposed to carry it by inserting the poles, and these poles would go on their shoulders. and the Ark of the Covenant was supposed to be covered up. That's the way the Ark was supposed to be transported. None of that happens here. There's no Levites involved. You've got a cart, a new cart. You don't have the poles on the shoulders of the Levites. So right from the beginning,

the way they're transporting the Ark of the Covenant is not in conformity with the way God himself said he wanted his throne to be transported. Yeah, the wonder part of this is just because they've got a ways to go And they're like, man, I don't know, like getting the poles out, running them through the loops, and we're going to carry this thing all this way. You know, that's cool if you're moving it from, you know, this room to that room, or maybe you're moving it across town, but come on, man.

The new cart is interesting. Maybe we're reading a little bit into this, but it seems that the thought has crossed their mind that we should be somewhat careful of how we transport this thing. maybe a new cart that and this is gonna i'm gonna make a point about this later but perhaps a new cart where something less holy has not been transported on it before is the way to go so we're not going to use just any old cart like we're not going to use the cart that we hauled the hay in or the cart that we hauled the you know the firewood in or whatever we'll build a brand new cart nothing's ever been transported on it because this is the ark after all so this

is going to matter in a minute yeah yeah i i fully agree i mean that's actually uh and that's that's kind of in conformity too with something that we see in other contexts for instance for instance if you have a if you have a heifer that's going to serve at a sacrifice like the red heifer or other contexts where you have an animal, very often the language used to describe them is one that's never been worked. So you're wanting an animal that has never been subjected to the yoke. Those are typically reserved for this sacred purpose. I think it's the same reason, this is a side note, but I think the same reason that Jesus rode the donkey into Jerusalem on which no one had yet been ridden. So it was saved for this special purpose. These are all virgin things

in that way right so this is a virgin cart this is a virgin cart and you can you understand what what that means in the context of a person but but this is sort of applied to things and animals as well not that you know you need an animal that is a virgin in the way we think of virgins but a virgin to the yoke or you know hasn't been worked or hasn't been written and that sort of thing and this by the way is a uh is another parallel so we had the 30,000 men paralleling the first first annual chapter four episode so if you remember what happens the the philistines take the ark and then of course it ends up being uh basically a curse on every philistine city where they take it so they're going to ship it back home right and so they consult their wise men and like

hey we gotta get rid of this thing how should we give it back to the israelites and the philistines are told that they are to prepare a new cart and then to hook these cows up to it and then let them haul it back. So in 1 Samuel 6, verse 7, the same phrase in Hebrew that's used to describe the new cart there is the same Hebrew phrase that we have here in 2 Samuel 6 to describe this new cart. So in an odd sort of way, it's like they're imitating the Philistines. You know, Philistines send it back on a new cart and now they're grabbing a new cart and they're going to use that to transport the uh the ark of the covenant so anyway they they put it on the ark i mean they put it on the cart and uh they are uh going to bring it along so they they bring it from the

house of abinadab which is where he'd been this whole time and two of the sons of abinadab one is named ahio and the other is the guy we've already mentioned azza so they're going to go along with it so verse four says they brought it with the ark of god from the house of benedab which was on the hill and the one son ahio he's walking ahead of the ark so maybe he's you know he's leading the oxen or something like that and what's going on all around him well verse five says david and all these israelites they're they're they're celebrating they're celebrating with all these different kinds of instruments they got lyres harps tambourines castanets cymbals so they're uh they're making music they're making song sounds like a very modern worship band

it does sound like a very modern worship they weren't just marching with an organ sounds like it sounds like they're willing to use what all the instruments just saying yeah they had and everything you know it's like the end of psalm 150 all this this long list of instruments you play an instrument bring it out here we're doing whatever you got man we're we're uh we're celebrating before the lord so bring all your stuff you got some symbols you got some liars you got your guitar you got your uh bagpipes whatever bring them on so it looks like everything's great everybody's happy singing making music celebrating until they get to uh the threshing floor of nakon whoever this guy is it's a threshing floor anyway something happens

we're not told exactly what happens uh but you know maybe the ark maybe the the the cart hit a hole or maybe it ran over a rock you know or maybe the oxen were pulling it they got startled by something and kind of went forward fast or jerked it to the right whatever happened anyway we're not told exactly but we're told that the oxen nearly upset the cart and when that happened our friend And Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God, and he took hold of it. And verse 7 says, the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for, I'm going to fill in that blank in just a minute, so for something, and he died there by the ark of God.

Yeah, let me fill in the blank first, and we can talk about this. So in 1 Chronicles, which is the parallel account to this, it just says uh god struck him down because he kind of he reached out his hand or something like that the hebrew this here is it's one simple short word shawl i believe is is what it is and it only occurs here and nobody really knows what it means that's a problem if you have a if you have a one if you have a hebrew word that only occurs once you can't find any parallels to it how how are you going to figure out what it means you know you've got nothing to compare it to so new american standard has that god struck him down for his irreverence uh esf says god struck him down

because of his error possibly but again it's uh it's debatable it really doesn't matter because the reason god struck him down is because he grabbed hold of the ark of the covenant right simple as that it doesn't mean it doesn't matter if you call it an error you call it irreverence or something else the action it wasn't the motive behind it but it was the action uh by which he grabbed hold of this most holy throne of god that's that's what killed him yeah this is a story that bothers some people it does seem i mean it says that you know he reached out and took hold of it for the oxen had stumbled right so for whatever reason the oxen have done something that is it seems that the the ark is in danger of falling off the cart

yeah and as it does what any of us might do which is oh you grab a hold of it right i mean if you're moving something and it starts teetering you might grab a hold of it to try to steady it i mean that's what it's always doing here and he might have he might have he might have even thought about it right you know just i mean if if we're carrying something it starts to fall i don't think to myself oh look it's falling i should probably reach out my hand and study it it's just an instant muscular reaction when you're carrying something you don't want to fall to to grab it yeah and it's so it seems that obviously we've discussed it there maybe this is the reason you're not supposed to have it on a cart right uh so that you're not you're not transporting this in the

right way but i don't think that his mistake is irreverence i don't i don't think it's that he doesn't revere the ark. I think his error, if we'll go with that translation, the error that he makes is that he believes what all of us believe, because our anthropology is not low enough, that the ark falling to the ground is somehow worse than the hand of a sinner being laid upon it. This is the mistake, because you're wrong. It is not worse for the ark of the Lord to touch the earth. It is not worse for that to happen than for you, as a sinner, to place your hand on it. That's the mistake. And that's a mistake I think most of us would make. We would be like, well, I mean, you don't want it to fall on the ground. I mean, you don't want it to get

dirty. You don't want it to break or something. I'll just, as a sinner, reach out my hand and grab hold of the throne of god unmediated this is a grave mistake you this is what you ought not do then he dies this and this is um i think this is a mistake that all of us constantly make thinking that apart from a mediator that we are more righteous than anything else around us which is we are the we are the reason for this fallen world uh there's nothing in the world more unrighteous than man yeah that's i think that's a great way to think about it you know another way to put it you know we're not we're not the ones responsible for keeping god from falling yes we got we got things backward the ark of the covenant is going to be fine if it touches the dirt it's

be fine if it falls yeah the problem is the human contamination as you put it yeah that that is that is the issue it's yeah it's a great reminder to you know that uh this is you know holy the the worship of god is is beautiful uh but we can't ever forget that it's also it has this sort of uh i don't know if danger is the right word to to use or not but they're in the old testament for sure there is the kind of this uh it's like this is probably a poor analogy but it's kind of like electricity you know electricity is is wonderful and what a gift it is but uh but it also is is dangerous i guess you know makes me think of the the quote about aslan you know he's not he's not a he's not a tame lion yeah well i'll tell you this worship of god is real dangerous without jesus

yeah yeah it's infinitely more dangerous apart from christ you want that uh you want that mediator yeah you're gonna need that mediator if you're gonna survive worship you're not gonna to survive worship apart from a mediator because you're not going to do it right right yeah yeah this this whole list that reminds me uh it's not the exact parallel but you know the disciples are trying to keep people away from jesus you know keep the little children away from jesus keep the people away from jesus uh keep him away from the dirt as it were that's why he came yeah he came he came to have contact with the things that we sometimes want to keep him keep him away from whatever as his motivation was uh the action put him in direct contact a sinner's

hand touching the ark of the covenant which people of course were not supposed to touch they weren't really supposed to see it and the result was that this the wages of sin is is death for him as well as for for all of us that's that's the wages that pay that that sin pays and uh that's why we have the that's why we have the new ark of the covenant that's why we have the flesh and blood of of christ because he's the one who he's not going to kill you if you touch him it's quite the opposite he's like come to me touch me all you are weary and heavy laden i'll give you rest uh and not only that but you know rather than killing people he gives life he He gives cleansing.

He gives all the things that he came to win for us. Well, if you're clothed in the righteousness of Christ, you can lay hold of God. Yeah, yeah. John is, I think it's 1 John 1, where he says, which we've looked at, which our hands have touched. This we proclaim to you, considering the word of life. That's why it's either Luke 24 or John 20, where Christ bids his disciples, you know, look, touch. touch here's my here's my wounds come up here and touch them if you want to uh you can you can lay hold of me and when you touch me you touch god and you touch your life itself you don't touch

something that's going to kill you you touch something that's going to enliven you yeah and none of that's to say that as i wasn't a believer or anything like that it's just to say that uh the time had not yet come where you could uh where you could lay hold of god in that way no no this was uh had to wait for the incarnation for that to happen yes well david's response to all this is that he he gets mad david was angry because of the lord's outburst against uzzah and so they played they named that place uh the outburst of uzzah perez uzzah to to this day so it is kind of an interesting parallel here so if you look in the two verses side by side, verse 7, you've got, I'm looking at the Hebrew here, you've got

the anger of God. Literally, it's the burning of the nose of God broke out. And then in verse 8, you've got just kind of the burning of David. In both cases, it's anger, but the angers are parallel. So God's anger burst out against Uzzah, kills him, but David is angry as well. It doesn't say he's angry at god but it does say he's angry because of the lord's outburst against us and this is one of a handful of situations i can think of in the old testament where people are angry either because of god or directly at god we talked about one of those with samuel samuel was angry because god was taking saul away from from being king so david is angry here because of what god has done i mean talk about raining on david's parade

I'm sure David this is one of the things you gotta love about David David is no doubt upset he's probably God I'm trying to do a good thing here I'm trying to bring your ark into the capital city what like what's

are you just kill this guy just kill this guy yeah you know this is ridiculous yeah it's a great example of how the best I don't care how good your motivations are i mean ultimately it's not up to your you and your motivations it's up to god and his word right god had made it very clear how he wanted his ark to be transported

david didn't do it so yeah you might have great motivations you might have you know the the the purest of reasons for doing something but if it's contrary to what god has said well then who cares about your motivations who cares about your your reasons it all goes back to this is god's ark and so god gets to describe how he wants his ark to be to be transported yeah so uh what's gonna happen well verse 10 david was unwilling to move the ark of the lord into the city of david with him no surprise there so what's he gonna do with it this is pretty this is astonishing to me because he says he took it to the house of a guy named obit edom now that's not so astonishing but obit edom is described as the the gittite and the ark of god remains in the

house of obit edom the gittite for three months and god blessed obit edom and all his household now what's astonishing about that a gittite means that guy is from gath gath is the philistine city so the ark of god stays for three months in the home of a gentile which is just pretty phenomenal when you think about the whole history of the ark of the covenant uh it's it's of course for the israelites and what happened the last time that the philistines got a hold of the ark of the covenant well it was a curse to them everywhere they took it you know their god was falling on his face and then his head and his hands are cut off and then there's a plague breaking breaking out in all these philistine cities and now because this is this is the important part because this

philistine has become part of the people of israel then god blesses his house because he god is god is staying for three months in this house of a gentile via his ark of the covenant rather than a curse it ends up being a blessing to him yeah i'm assuming these this family did not touch it yeah thankfully i'm sure they wised up don't open it don't touch it you know if i was opening them i'd be like okay put it in that back room and we're locking the door yeah ain't nobody going in there nobody's gonna have any contact with us yeah and and of course now david's gonna get wind of yeah this guy is getting blessed and then that seems like the motivation that david's like man we really do got to get this ark over here so we're gonna go where this can

be 2.0 so we're gonna try it again so he hears yeah he hears that god has blessed the house of but even so he's like well let's try it again so they went to his house and they retrieved it and they brought it into the city of david so that's verse 12 and then we have a description here of some of the activities that happened while they were transporting it says uh the bearers of the ark of the lord now that that indicates that they've figured out how they're supposed to carry it now they uh they went six paces and they sacrificed an ox and a fatling by the way that i think that's easy to misread as if like every six paces they had a sacrifice the the hebrew would indicate that uh this just means they went six paces maybe they brought it outside or

something like that and then they offer this these sacrifices i don't think they were offering us ox and a fatling every six paces took him a year and a half to get to the yeah from emmaus every seven miles i mean somebody could do the math but that'd be a lot of dead animals between emmaus and jerusalem uh so that make the sacrifice and david is dancing dancing before the lord with all his might and he's wearing is because elit and ephod is is connected with what the priest would wear. So here we have David, king, wearing priestly garments. Now, this is not the first, and it will not be the last time that we see kings performing priestly functions. Now, I know that in the Old Testament, these are different offices. Of course they are,

but we have plenty of examples. We saw Saul, the first king, offering sacrifices. We have David wearing the priestly attire, dancing before the Ark of the Covenant. We're going to have someone, when the temple is built, offering sacrifices. And a whole lot later on, during the period of what's called the Maccabees, this is kind of between the Testaments, as it were, you have some of the rulers of the Maccabees, assuming both the kingly and the high priestly office. So not the first, not the last time this is going to happen.

And it kind of all goes back to Melchizedek, Genesis 14, who's the priest and the king of Salem. But anyway, David is dressed in priestly garb and he's dancing and everybody is shouting onto the trumpet. And in the midst of all of this excitement and rejoicing, we have verse 16, which just kind of drops this into the narrative. And it's going to pick it up again in a minute. It says, as it happened, as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart. Now, you would think with that introduced that we would go right to this heated exchange between her and David. We don't. This is one of these cases where the author will drop something into the narrative and kind of pique our interest and then go on with the rest of the narrative and then pick up that particular point of interest again and expand on it. Yeah, it seems as though what David is doing here must be fairly foolish looking.

I mean, the sort of dancing with all your might. So, I mean, he is just getting after it. I mean, that's what the text would have you believe. And, you know, he's leaping and dancing. I mean, this is what my mother would say is, like, act in a fool. You know this term, Chad? Yes, yeah, yeah. I don't think God has a problem with it, obviously. David's ecstatic and stuff.

But it might be a weird thing to see a king do. But David's a weird king. I mean, he's— He's a weird guy, yeah. And kind of along these same lines, uh this linen ephod uh don't don't kind of picture like a suit picture something where if you're jumping around and you're dancing and you're you know you're really busting some moves there's a pretty good chance that certain parts of your body are going to be exposed yeah

okay uh you know for parents listening with kids you know what i've talked about it's like it's just a it's a it's linen first of all yeah so it's not it's like you're wearing a long t-shirt yes maybe we could say that you're wearing a t-shirt that goes down to mid-thigh let's put it that way yeah it's uh maybe it's tied up a little bit but i was gonna say it's like a it's like a nightgown essentially yeah it's a good that's a good way to put it yeah so he's wearing a nightgown and he's he's you know very excited dancing a lot so mccall sees this by the way out the window the reason that's important if you remember back in first samuel chapter 19 this is in the early days when saul was coming after david that he went he sent soldiers

to david's house to uh to kill david in bed because mccall had lied and said he's sick mccall lets david escape through a window so this kind of there's a there's a there's a an irony here between these two particular stories so early in their marriage she rescued her husband by letting him escape through a window now she looks out through a window and sees david playing the fool as as it were okay we'll we'll finish their particular exchange in just a second let's see what happens verse 17 says they brought the ark of the lord and set it in its place inside the tent which david had pitched for it this by the way is not the it's not the tabernacle we have a weird separation that's going on through a lot of first and second samuel the ark of god just the

ark not all the other stuff just the ark has been at kiddiathia arem but the rest of the tabernacle is probably at this point in gibeon which is i i've yet to hear a good explanation as to why they were kept apart as long as they were but they but they were so this this tent that david sets up is not the tabernacle. It's just a tent that's going to be a house for the Ark of the Covenant. Then they offer burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. And after David had offered these burnt offerings and peace offerings, again, more priestly activity on David's part, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord. And he wasn't content just to do that, but he's going to make sure they all have plenty to eat. And so he gives to all the people who

over there. He gives them some cakes, some bread, and then some translations will say a cake of dates. ESV says a portion of meat. We're not exactly sure what it was, but either way, they give them some food and then some cake of raisins, and everybody goes to their house. So everybody's happy. They have food. No doubt they have drink. It's been a great celebration. I mean, this is kind of think of if your hometown has like one day a year where there's a parade or just kind of a you know a big party whatever it might be that that's the atmosphere everybody's happy everything's everything's gone well this time they've got the ark there everybody loves david now everybody's got plenty of food they're going to go home they're going to celebrate there

were peace offerings which means that with peace offerings the people got back a portion of the animal that was sacrificed so there can be barbecue just kind of picture beer barbecue everybody's happy everybody's rejoicing david's been dancing then you go home and you open the front door and your wife's waiting there with her arms crossed yeah yeah and you are like what what yeah look on her face says everything so yeah i wanted to set all that up because when we transition to verse 20 it's like uh-oh so david gets back and he's returned he's going to bless his house now and when he does uh his wife comes out to meet him they call the daughter of saul notice how she's constantly called the daughter of saul that that also is a is a wink wink to us

this is saul's daughter you know the saul that persecuted david the saul whose regal line came to an end with the death of Ish-bosheth, that Saul, his daughter, comes out to meet David and says, and you need to hear this with full sarcasm, oh, how the king of Israel has distinguished himself or honored himself today. He uncovered himself in the eyes of his servants' maids as one of the foolish or empty ones shamelessly uncovers himself. she's not happy yeah i like i like the way that the esv has this where it says uh as one of the one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself yeah yeah it's a good translation for it's uh yeah the hebrew there is rake which is just kind of like the empty dull

foolish yeah vulgar yeah you kind of picture like yeah a guy who's uh he's he's drunk and he doesn't care what he covers it doesn't uncover that's kind of what she's communicating here you've you've acted like an idiot out there david and it seems and it seems that david is thinks that kind of baked into this is my father would never have done that yeah precisely and notice this this struck me this morning why wasn't she out there if all the people of israel are celebrating with david and she's she you kind of picture her she's at home no i'm not going out there with arms crossed looking out the window looking down literally and metaphorically at david thinking to herself yeah my dad would never behave this way so you can read your uh you can

read your your life first yeah this is my life first yeah david well david it's coming up well david's response is it was before the lord who chose me above your father and above all his house to appoint me as prince over israel the people of the lord and i will celebrate before the lord so this is he's responding to something that she didn't say but that he knows is inserted in what she said which is hey you're that god chose me and he knew he was getting i'm a i'm a wild man like i'm a i'm a this is the kind of this is the kind of stuff i'm prone to do this is sort of like take it up with god i'm just doing i'm just doing me and then says this which is of course chad my life verse which is i will make myself yet more contemptible than this and i will be

abased in your eyes this is the life verse so it was like unbelievable that you could act in such a way oh you have you've seen nothing yet yeah hold my beer yeah yeah yeah you just you just wait and i will uh i'll do even more uh abasing dishonorable things at least according to your opinion yeah and by the way this is this is probably not how you like go to bed reconciled no no and we're told of course at the end of the chapter that uh that she had no child to the day of her death and we're not told why well there's one there's one there's one thing that can make sure that you don't have that and that's if you never reconcile and uh no no baby making activity goes on which is kind of how i read that that uh that this relationship is essentially ended at

this point well i can't help but think that david is thinking you know what uh not just because they had this they had this row and this fight and they didn't reconcile but at this point i'm thinking david doesn't want any uh any child around that has any of saul's heritage yeah any of saul's genes uh so there could be more than one reason why this this didn't happen you know and i know we're out time but i i will say this uh we kind of we kind of picked on mccall here but in her defense she's had a she's had a pretty rough yeah life i mean so david he's this is the wife for which he got the you know the 200 he uh he went out and collected 200 philistine foreskins to uh to have her as his wife i'm sure that's part of the argument that doesn't come up this is not what i

went out and got 204 skins to put up with yeah i'm sure he reminds her of that quite often so i mean they probably judging by that episode i referred to earlier where she let him escape to the window they probably had a fairly you know maybe maybe happy marriage at first and then after david leaves then her dad saul gives her to another man and as we heard just couple episodes episodes ago seemed like he's a pretty cool dude because when they take her away from that guy he follows her he's crying he's just beside himself which would suggest that he truly loved her and now she's back with david but not the same david she had beginning because this david now has a harem yeah as all these wives so yeah i i only say that because from her perspective

there's a lot going on here that could make her look at david as if you know i really don't want to be with you but here i am yeah you went from being his first you know his wife to one of many wives and what david's doing here is not regal behavior i mean so i mean like i understand the complaint i mean she she's saying like this is not how a king is supposed to act but david's a different sort of king and he says that's exactly how this king's gonna act and so and that's it Yeah, man, we are out of time and then some. So, guys, we'll be back next week to get into Chapter 7. We've been doing a good job of actually completing chapters the last couple of times.

Don't get used to it. I'm sure that that will be broken soon enough. But we'll be back for the beginning of Chapter 7 next week. Chad, I'll see you then. All right, see you then. We'll see you next time.