Reading for May 25th

Read 2 Samuel 17.15-29
In verses 15-16: Hishai sends word to David through the priests and their sons.
He has bought David some time but urges him to cross the Jordan quickly and escape.
In verses 18-19: The well was a simple pit; its opening could be covered with a blanket and grain spread over it for perfect camouflage.
In verse 23: Ahithopel committed suicide perhaps because he knew that the end of Absalom's reign was imminent.
In verse 24: Mahanaim was a site east of the Jordan that was easily defensible.
In verse 25: Amasa was David's nephew, the son of his sister Zerulah.
She is called the daughter of Nahash here rather than the daughter of Jesse.
This maybe a scribal error (Nahash occurs in v. 27), or Abigail may have been David's half sister.
In verse 27: This Nahash is the Ammonite king with with whom David had a treaty (10.1-2).
His son, Shobi, loyal to the treaty, now helps David in exile.
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