The turning point in this chapter is verse 10, when David’s heart struck him. I said earlier that this chapter doesn’t present David in a great light. But that’s only partly true. David is being pictured here for us warts and all. This event seems to be towards the end of his life. And there’s a warning here that it’s […]

A God who only ever did things we could understand wouldn’t be God. There are some cultures where authority figures are never questioned. If your father, your mother, your employer, or your ruler tells you to do something, you do it, and you don’t question why. It often leads to abuse and exploitation. In the West however, we go to […]

Are you willing to worship a God who you don’t always understand? Are you willing to obey God even if you don’t know why he asks you to do something? Those are questions we have to face up to as we come to this unexpected ending of 2nd Samuel. Because we have an event recorded here which seems utterly strange […]