The Lord Is My Rock
Posted by Chris on November 29, 2009 under Sermons
2 Samuel 21-24
- Story of Rizpah (21:1-14)
– The Giant Killers List (21:15-22)- David’s Song (22:1-51)
- David’s Last Words (23:1-7)
– The List of Mighty Men (23:8-39)
- Story of Threshing Floor (24:1-24)
Two Stories
- David ignores God
- David sins
- God sends a disaster
- David responds – intercedes for Israel
- Others players (Rizpah and Araunah)
The Righteousness of Rizpah
- Joshua 9:15 – Pact with Gibeonites. Saul broke the pact
- David surrenders seven descendents of Saul
- Rizpah (2 Samuel 3:7) – Saul’s concubine, Abner’s concubine
- She has no power, but acts where she can
- She shames David into action and admitting the injustice
David’s Songs
- The Lord is My Rock
- Righteous Rulers vs Evil Men
- God’s Covenant and Unfailing Love
- David “enters into” the exodus with poetic language – he experiences it again.
The Threshing Floor
- Two Parts:
– The Census- Counting the people is an assessment of strength
- Reliance on military power (see Psalm 20)
- Numbers rather than names
- Euphemisms of war and politics – doublespeak
- Where is our trust and confidence?
– The Altar
- The destroying angel is stopped at Mount Moriah (Abraham’s mountain)
- Araunah the Jebusite has a threshing floor there
- Will become the site of the Temple (1 Chron. 21:15)
Full Circle
- Hannah praying at Shiloh
- David praying at the altar
- Israel is saved through humbling themselves before God
- Our king is God alone