Positivity Successor - Episode 284 - Positivity Successor Easter Sunday 2026 (2 Samuel 19-20)

Episode Date: April 5, 2026

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Hey, positive people. Welcome to Positiveity Successor on Easter Sunday. Schedule us 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 Successer Episode 284. Continuing on with the Bible. Let's get into it. 19. July was told, the King is weeping and mourning for. Absalom. And for the whole army, the victory that day was turned into mourning, because on that day

the troops heard it said, the king is grieving for his son. The men stole into his city that day, as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle. The king covered his face and cried aloud, oh, my son, Absalom. Oh, Absalom, my son, my son, my son. Then Joab went into the house to the king and said, Today you have humiliated all your men who have just saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and the lives of your wives and concubines. You love those who hate you and hate those who love you.

You have made it clear today that the commanders and their men mean nothing to you. I see that you would be pleased if Absalom were alive today, and all of us were dead. Now go out and encourage your men. I swear by the Lord that if you don't go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall. This will be worse for you than all the Kalamites that have come upon you from your youth until now. So the king got up and took his seat. seat in the gateway. When the men were told, the king is sitting in the gateway, they all came before him.

David returned to Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled to their homes throughout the tribes of Israel. The people were all arguing with each other, saying, the king delivered us from the hand of our enemies. He is the one who rescued. us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the country because of Absalom, and Absalom whom we anointed to rule over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?

King David sent this message to Zadok and Abithar, the priests. As to elders of Judah, why should you be the last to bring the king back? to his palace since what is being said throughout Israel has reached the king at his quarters. You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last thing to bring back the king and say to Amazza, are you not my own flesh and blood? May God deal with me be it ever so severely. if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Jalab. He has won over the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man.

They sent the word to the king. Return you and all your men. Then the king returned and went as far as to Jordan. Now the men of Judah had come to Gilgau to go out and meet the king. and bring him across the Jordan. Shimi, son of Gura, the Benjaminite from Beharium, Behurum, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David. With him were a thousand benjamites,

along with Ziba, the steward of Saul's household, and his 15 sons and 20 servants. They rushed to the Jordan, where the king was. They crossed at the fore to the fore to, take the king's household over and to do whatever he wished. When Shimi, son of Gura, crossed to Jordan, he fell prostrate to prostrate before the king and said to him, May my lord not hold me guilty. Do not remember how your servant stood wrong on the day, my lord, the king, left Jerusalem.

May the Lord, may the king put it out of his mind, for I, your servant know what that I have sinned. But today I have come here as the first of the whole house of Joseph to come down and meet my lord the king. Then Abashai, son of Zariah, Zaruya, said, shouldn't Shem be put to death for this? He cursed the Lord's anointed. David replied, What do you and I have in common, you sons of Zeruia? This day you have become my adversaries. Should anyone be put to death in Israel today?

Do I not know that today I am king over Israel? So the king said to Shemi, You shall not die, and the king promised him on oath. Mepheed Posheth Saul's grandson also went down to meet the king. He had not taken care of his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day. The king leapt until the day he returned safely. When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, Why didn't you go with me, Mfifu Sheff?

He said, my lord the king, since I had your servant and lame, I said, I will have my donkey saddled and will ride on it so I can go with the king. But Zibba, my servant betrayed me, and he has slandered your name. He slandered your servant to my Lord, the king. My Lord, the king is like an angel of God. So do whatever pleases you. All my grandfather's descendants deserved. Nothing but death from my lord the king, but you gave your servant a place among those who eat at your table.

So what right do I have to make any more appeals to the king? The king said to him, why say more? I order you in Zibba to divide the fields. Mephi Bosheth said to the king, Let them take everything. now that my lord the king has arrived him safely. Barzili, the Galidite, also came down from Roelium

to cross the Jordan with the king and to send him on his way from there. Now Barzilia Zilli was a very old man. 80 years of age, he had provided for the king during his stay in my life. a hand name for he was a very wealthy man.

The king said to Barzili, cross over with me and stay with me in Jerusalem and I will provide for you. But Barzali answered the king, How many more years will I live that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king? I am now 80 years old. Can I tell the difference between what is good and was not?

Can your servant take? taste what he eats and drinks? Can I still hear the voices of men and women singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king? Your servant will cross over the Jordan with the king for a short distance, but why should the king reward me in this way? Let me, let your servant return that I may die in my own town near the tomb of my father and mother. but here is your servant, Kim Ham. Let him cross over with my Lord, the king. Do for him whatever pleases you.

The king said, Kim Ham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever pleases you, and anything you desire from me I will do for you. So while the people crossed to Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzeli, and gave him his blessing, and Barzili returned to his home. When the king crossed over to Gilgau, Kim Ham crossed with him.

All the troops of Judah and half the troops of Israel had taken the king over. Soon all the men of Israel were coming to the king and saying to him, Why did our brothers the men of Judah steal the king away? and bring him in his household across the Jordan, together with all his men. All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel. We did this because the king is closely related to us. Why are you angry about it? Have we eaten any of the king's provisions?

Have we taken anything for ourselves? Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah. We have ten shares in the king's provisions. king. And besides, we have a greater claim on David than you have. So why do you treat us with contempt? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king, but the men of Judah responded even more harshly than the men of Israel? And that's where we're going to stop. We'll pick back up with Shiba rules the rebels against David. Shiba rebels against David. Shiba rebels against David. Life in Bible time.

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