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Blessed through God’s anointing, King David binds together a broken nation and gives his people victory—until, distracted, he is overcome by sin. The sword of God’s judgment then falls on David and his house, but even as David is humbled, he returns penitently to the Lord. Richard Phillips’s expository commentary carries us with David up to the heights and down to the depths, noting the lessons...

would not be captured alive. He concluded his report, saying, “So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen” (vv. 9–10). Before David could respond, the man drew forth two objects that at least proved his news that Saul was dead. He concluded, “And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord” (v. 10). When the translators of Samuel made their division at this chapter, we can
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