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Triumph of the King: The Message of 2 Samuel is unavailable, but you can change that!

The history of David—the unfolding drama of 2 Samuel—gives us a slice of life in the real world. We see people in their true colors: the petty, selfish, murderous, yet fiercely loyal, Joab; the war-lord Abner, honorable perhaps, but only when it suited him; the sad, incompetent Ish-Bosheth; and the miserable and vicious sons of Rimmon, who murdered Ish-Bosheth in his sleep. And there is David,...

filled his heart with inexpressible joy and a sense of the glory of the Lord. Noting that, whereas Nathan spoke prophetically to him on God’s behalf and David replied directly in prayer to God, Matthew Henry suggests that when ‘ministers deliver God’s message to us, it is not to them but to God, that our hearts must reply; he understands the language of the heart, and to him we may come boldly’.9 When David responds to the Lord in prayer, his original desire
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