Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Reading for May 29th

 Read 2 Samuel 20.1--3. In  20.1-26: Sheba's revolt. In verse 1: Everyone to your tents is an idiom for military demobilization. Sheba is calling for the army or Israel to withdraw from David. In verse 2: All the people of Israel refers only to the northern tribes, as the rest of the verse shows. This phrase probably exaggerates the extent of the northern disaffection with David (see v. 21). In verse 3 : David no longer had sexual relations with the ten concubines he had left behind because Absalom had slept with them (16.20-22). Comments or Questions..

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