1) David laments Saul and
Jonathan’s deaths.
2) Judah anoints David king, splitting from the rest of Israel. But David’s camp and Saul’s family are still close…despite having some difficulty entering into fighting, they do, and lives are lost.
3) Political intrigue quite separate from God fills David’s life…Abner betrays Ishbaal and aligns with David due to a personal dispute, David takes advantage to get Michel back from her husband, Joab kills Abner out of distrust and vengeance, David proclaims woe on Joab’s house forever and publicly condemns him.
2) Judah anoints David king, splitting from the rest of Israel. But David’s camp and Saul’s family are still close…despite having some difficulty entering into fighting, they do, and lives are lost.
3) Political intrigue quite separate from God fills David’s life…Abner betrays Ishbaal and aligns with David due to a personal dispute, David takes advantage to get Michel back from her husband, Joab kills Abner out of distrust and vengeance, David proclaims woe on Joab’s house forever and publicly condemns him.
4) Abner’s death leads to more
deaths as the bloody transition continues.
David benefits from Ishbaal’s death, but doesn’t want to be seen as
having taken the lives of Saul’s family himself, and kills those who killed
Ishbaal.
5) David is anointed king over all Israel, and with the Lord’s clear help, takes Jerusalem as his city and defeats his enemies.
6) David carries out God’s will by bringing the ark of the Lord to the capital, connecting himself further with righteousness and the traditions of Israel and showing great joy before God. However, Uzzah’s death and Michel’s animosity mean that the victory is not without difficulty.
7) David desires to build “God” a house for the ark, but God tells David that while he takes care of him and his legacy, it is his son who will build the ark’s house. David praises God.
8) David wins wars left and right, defeating the enemies which his predecessors never could. Like any king, he is brutal in control over those he has subjected.
9) David desires to show love to Jonathan’s house, and finds his crippled son to care for. This also puts the only living relatives of Saul under his care, helping cement his authority.
10) Several nations ally against David’s forces, afraid of the manner in which he has been conquering armies and acquiring vassal territories. David’s armies meet them in battle and defeat them.
11) David commits an act of adultery that could be akin to rape, then compounds it horrifically by murdering one of his trusted men simply to cover the crime. It all occurs when David was alone at home rather than with his men.
12) David’s sin is exposed by Nathan, who leads him into repentance. God gives David’s son over to death as a punishment for his sin; David petitions greatly, but to no avail. David then continues to conquer his foreign enemies.
13) Despite David’s repentance, his family further collapses. Amnon rapes his sister Tamar with Jonadab’s help, then despises her, and David does nothing to seek justice (perhaps beset by his own guilt of a similar act). Absalom does, however, killing Amnon, which forces him to flee. David then becomes more angry at Absalom than he had been at Amnon. The prophecy of David’s sin’s effects being felt throughout his family continues to be met.
14) Joab uses cunning to convince David to return Absalom to Jerusalem, allowing David to do what he truly wanted anyway. Absalom is bitter, David finally publicly forgives him.
15) Absalom easily uses cunning to wrest Jerusalem away from David. David trusts that God will decide what is right, but then also decides to use his own cunning as well.
16) We continue to see that some support David and some oppose him. David takes what comes. Meanwhile, Absalom takes David’s home in Jerusalem.
5) David is anointed king over all Israel, and with the Lord’s clear help, takes Jerusalem as his city and defeats his enemies.
6) David carries out God’s will by bringing the ark of the Lord to the capital, connecting himself further with righteousness and the traditions of Israel and showing great joy before God. However, Uzzah’s death and Michel’s animosity mean that the victory is not without difficulty.
7) David desires to build “God” a house for the ark, but God tells David that while he takes care of him and his legacy, it is his son who will build the ark’s house. David praises God.
8) David wins wars left and right, defeating the enemies which his predecessors never could. Like any king, he is brutal in control over those he has subjected.
9) David desires to show love to Jonathan’s house, and finds his crippled son to care for. This also puts the only living relatives of Saul under his care, helping cement his authority.
10) Several nations ally against David’s forces, afraid of the manner in which he has been conquering armies and acquiring vassal territories. David’s armies meet them in battle and defeat them.
11) David commits an act of adultery that could be akin to rape, then compounds it horrifically by murdering one of his trusted men simply to cover the crime. It all occurs when David was alone at home rather than with his men.
12) David’s sin is exposed by Nathan, who leads him into repentance. God gives David’s son over to death as a punishment for his sin; David petitions greatly, but to no avail. David then continues to conquer his foreign enemies.
13) Despite David’s repentance, his family further collapses. Amnon rapes his sister Tamar with Jonadab’s help, then despises her, and David does nothing to seek justice (perhaps beset by his own guilt of a similar act). Absalom does, however, killing Amnon, which forces him to flee. David then becomes more angry at Absalom than he had been at Amnon. The prophecy of David’s sin’s effects being felt throughout his family continues to be met.
14) Joab uses cunning to convince David to return Absalom to Jerusalem, allowing David to do what he truly wanted anyway. Absalom is bitter, David finally publicly forgives him.
15) Absalom easily uses cunning to wrest Jerusalem away from David. David trusts that God will decide what is right, but then also decides to use his own cunning as well.
16) We continue to see that some support David and some oppose him. David takes what comes. Meanwhile, Absalom takes David’s home in Jerusalem.
18) David’s armies defeat Absalom’s armies, without David going into battle. One of David’s lead officers kills Absalom, despite David’s instructions forbidding it, and David experiences great grief.
19) In the aftermath of the rebellion, David quickly and sometimes rashly forgives all those who had sided with Absalom in grand fashion. In the manner David regains control of the kingdom, though support for him is not unanimous.
20) Another rebellion starts in the direct aftermath of the previous one. Joab manages to end it with minimal bloodshed due to the counsel of a wise woman, but only after he has personally taken advantage of the situation to kill his rival that David had given control in his place.
21) In a story from a previous time, David reconciles with the Gibeonites by executing 7 of Saul’s descendents, even though he’d promised not to do such a thing. Later he goes to war with the Philistines, where his mighty men kill several Philistine giants, surprisingly including Goliath.
22) A psalm of David thanking God for saving him and attributing God with all his successes, nearly identical to Psalm 18. David briefly uses surprising words claiming his own righteousness and blamelessness.
23) David’s last words state that a faithful king is a good thing. After this are stories of David’s mighty warriors.
24) A census is somehow connected to God’s anger against Israel. Yet David then realizes he has sinned by taking the census, and God kills 70,000 of his people as retribution. So Israel is punished, for what David did at God’s incitement. God tells the angel of death to stay his hand and not take people from Jerusalem, then David builds an alter which is also attributed with staying the hand of the angel of death.
Summary: 2 Samuel paints a picture of David as a man who desires to serve God, but who frequently gets caught up in his own sinful desires or political intrigue. David defeats all his enemies from without to a degree his predecessors never could, but is also plagued by rebellion from within.
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