Who is David talking about in verse 3? Is he just giving general principles for how kings should act? Or is he speaking about a specific king to come? Verses 3 and 4 do give us general principles about kingship. But everything that comes before – in verses 1 and 2 – is preparing us for a prophecy of a […]

If we were to judge the future of Christianity based on how things have been going lately, we could well conclude: the future’s looking grim. But what does God tell us to base our confidence for the future on? On how things are going now? Or on his promises? In these verses, David gives us a glorious vision of the […]

We pay particular attention to someone’s last words. You can read collections of the last words of famous people.The last words of our loved ones are likely words we’ll never forget. Here in 2nd Samuel 23, we have the last words of the man who is named more frequently in the Bible than any other human character. Not necessarily his […]