Gracious God,
we do not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from your mouth.
Make us hungry for this your Word,
that it may nourish us today
in the ways of eternal life.
Through Jesus Christ, the bread of heaven. Amen.
There are actually only 88 days of reading, so we are ¼ of the way through!
2 Samuel is the book of David’s rule over Israel. A phrase that comes up several times is “David inquired of the LORD.” That is not a phrase associated with Saul.
There are a lot of memorable stories in today’s reading, but I want to draw your attention to 7:12-16. God is going to stand by this promise to keep a descendant of David on the throne, and he does it even when David’s descendants break covenant. Ultimately Jesus will come through this family line, and we know that he is now reigning forever!
Today we also encounter David with Bathsheba. Uriah will come up again briefly in Wednesday’s reading, and that brief mention will make this story even more heart-breaking.
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