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Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 2 Samuel 11:14-27.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

2 Samuel 11:14-27 (NIV)
14  In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
15  In it he wrote, “Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”
16  So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were.

On verses 14-27:  David has been unable to get Uriah to sleep with his wife Bathsheba whom David had made pregnant.  So David comes up with an even more sinister and coldblooded plan: murder Uriah.  David writes a letter to his general Joab instructing Joab to place Uriah on the frontlines of battle and then withdraw from Uriah so that he will be easily killed (v15).  And guess who David gets to send that letter to Joab? 

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 2 Samuel 10:1-19.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

2 Samuel 10:1-4 (NIV)
1  In the course of time, the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun succeeded him as king.
2  David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David’s men came to the land of the Ammonites,

On verses 1-4:  In 2 Samuel 9, David showed God’s kindness to Mephibosheth, and Mephibosheth is both humbled and overwhelmed.  Now here in 2 Samuel 10, David shows kindness to Hanun leader of the Ammonites when his father died.  But rather than responding with gratitude, in return Hanun, influenced by his skeptical nobles, treats David poorly.  Hanun publicly humiliates the messengers whom David had sent to pay his family respect. 

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 2 Samuel 8:1-18.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

2 Samuel 8:1-18 (NIV)
1  In the course of time, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Metheg Ammah from the control of the Philistines.
2  David also defeated the Moabites. He made them lie down on the ground and measured them off with a length of cord. Every two lengths of them were put to death, and the third length was allowed to live. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought tribute.

On verses 1-14:  In the previous chapter (2 Samuel 7), God gives David some powerful promises regarding his future — that God would raise up a descendant of David to succeed David as king, that God would establish this descendant’s kingdom for all time and that through this descendant, David’s house, kingdom and throne would reign forever (2 Samuel 7:12-16).  Now in these verses (v1-14), David, as king of Israel, scores victory after victory over a long list of Israel’s opponents: the Philistines (v1), the Moabites (v2), Hadadezer (v3-4, 7-8), the Arameans of Damascus (v5-6), the Edomites (v12), the Ammonites (v12), and the Amalekites (v12).