Positivity Successor - Episode 281 - Positivity Successor (2 Samuel 15-16)

Episode Date: April 2, 2026

Mental Health Awareness! ❤️🙏 Physical Health Awareness! ❤️🙏 Spiritual Health Awareness! ❤️🙏 Emotional Health Awareness! ❤️🙏 Another Interesting Bible Read! 2 Samuel 15-16! ...God Bless! Amen 🙏

Transcript
Discussion (0)
Starting point is 00:00:01 Hey, positive people. Welcome to positivity successor. Scorses from Monday through Sunday, including holidays, every season, every year, according to Leap Year. Thanks for tuning to the light-changing podcast. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day. Welcome to Positive Today Successor Episode 281. Get turned out with the Bible. Let's get into it. Absalom's Conspiracy, 15. In the course of time, Absalom. Avilaum provided himself with the chariot and horses and with 50 men to run ahead of him.
Starting point is 00:00:39 He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone came with the complaint to be placed before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him, What town are you from? he would answer. Your servant is from what? one of the tribes of Israel, then Absalom would say to him, look, your claims are valid and proper, but there is no representative of the king to hear you. And Absalom would add, if only I were appointed judge in the land, then everyone who has a complaint or a case could come
Starting point is 00:01:24 to me and I would see that he gets justice. Also, whenever anyone approaches, approached him to bow down before him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him. Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to the king asking for justice, and he stole the hearts of the men of Israel. At the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the Lord. While your servant was living at gesture in Aram, I made this vow. If the Lord takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the Lord in Hebron.
Starting point is 00:02:20 The king said to him, Go in peace. So he went to Hebra. Then Absalom sent secret, messengers throughout the tribes of Israel to say, as soon as you hear the sound of the trumpets, then say, Absalom is king in Hebron. 200 men from Jerusalem had accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and went quite innocently,
Starting point is 00:02:53 knowing nothing about the matter. While Absalom was offering sacrifices, He also sent for Ahith Ophil the Golanite David's counselor To come from
Starting point is 00:03:10 Galoth His hometown And so this conspiracy Gain's Fawnin's Following kept on increasing David's fleas David fleas
Starting point is 00:03:27 A messenger A messenger came and told David the hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom. Then David said to all his officials who were with them in Jerusalem, Come, we must flee or none of us will escape from Absalom. We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin upon us and put the city to the sword. The king's officials answered him,
Starting point is 00:03:57 your servants are ready to do whatever our Lord the king chooses. The king set out with his entire household following him. But he left ten concubines to take care of the palace. So the king set out with all the people following him and they halted at a place some distance away. All his men marched past him. along with all the Carathites and him and Palothites, and all the 600 Gittites who had accompanied him from Gath,
Starting point is 00:04:42 March before the king. The king said to Etai, the Gidite, why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner in exile from your homeland. You came only yesterday, and today shall I make you wander about with us. When I do not know where I am going, go back and take your countrymen. May kindness and faithfulness be with you.
Starting point is 00:05:17 But that's how I replied to the king, as surely as the Lord lives, and as my Lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be whether it means life or death there will be your servant there will your servant be david said to itai go ahead march on so itai the gedite marched on with all his men and the families that were with them the whole countryside wept aloud has all the people passed by the king also crossed the king also crossed the king Kidran Valley, and all the people moved on toward the desert. Zadok was there too, and all the Levites who were with them were carrying the Ark of the covenant of God. They sat down the Ark of God and Abithar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished
Starting point is 00:06:17 leaving the city. Then the King said to Zadok, take the Ark of God back into the the city. If I find favor in the Lord's eyes, he will bring me back and let me see it in his dwelling place again. But if he says
Starting point is 00:06:36 I am not pleased with you, then I am ready. Let him do to me whatever seems good to him. The king also said to his ad doc, the priests, aren't you a seer? Go back to the city in peace
Starting point is 00:06:52 with your son of Hamas. and Jonathan and son of Abithar. You and Abathar take your two sons with you. I will wait at the fords in the desert until word comes from you and to inform me. So Zadok and Abathar took the Ark of God back to Jerusalem and stayed there. But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went.
Starting point is 00:07:22 His head covered and he was. barefoot. All the people with them covered their heads too, and were weeping as they went up. Now David had been told, Ahith of Phil is among the conspirators with Absalom. So David prayed, Oh Lord, turn Ahithofel's counsel into foolishness. When David arrived at the summit, where people used to worship God Hushai the archite was there to meet him His robe torn and dust on his head
Starting point is 00:08:06 David said to him If you go with me You will be a burden to me But if you return to the city And say to Absalom I will be your servant O king I was her father's servant in the past
Starting point is 00:08:20 But now I will be your servant Then you can help me by frustration and Ahithel's advice. Won't the priests Zadok and Abathar be there with you? Tell them anything you hear in the king's palace. Their two sons, Ahemaz, son of Zadok and Jonathan, son of Abathar, are there with them. Send them to me with anything you hear. So David's friend, Hushai, arrived at Jerusalem,
Starting point is 00:08:54 Absalom was entering the city. And that's where we're going to stop. We'll put back up with David and Ziba 16. Thanks for tuning to an interesting ball read. Mark to look back up the reflections at yourselves in the mirror to the beautiful and handsome people out there because you're a work in progress and will get to where you want and like believe that.
Starting point is 00:09:19 Thanks to tune to the next to another episode, positive successor. Thanks for tuning to an interesting ball read. God bless. Amen. and tomorrow for the next episode of Positiveity Successor. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day.

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.