Bible in one year 6/26/ 2022 1Chronicle Chapter 17-20 The Davidic covenant
By Rev.Katherine Liu
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1 Chronicles Chapter 17 David’s desire to build
a Temple: The Davidic covenant
After king David
was settle in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet that he had desire to
build a Temple for the Lord. The Lord spoke to Nathan about king David’s heart
and made a covenant with king David, an explanation of this great covenant with
David (2Sam.7:12-16) “ I declare to you that the Lord will build a house for you: When
your days are over and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your
offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his
kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his
throne forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take
my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor. I will set him
over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever.”
(vv.11-14).
Nathan
reported to king David all the words of this entire revelation. Then King David
sat before the Lord, and he said,
“ Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? And as if this were not enough in your sight, O God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of me, O Lord God. What more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant, O Lord. For the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made known all these great promises. There is no one like you, O Lord, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. And who is like your people Israel –the one nations on earth whose God went out to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? You made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, O Lord, have become their God. (vv.16-22)
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Chronicles Chapter 18 David’s wars
In the course of time,
David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its
surrounding villages from the control of the Philistines.(v.1). David also
defeated the Moabites, fought Hadadezer king of Zobah, as far as Hamath, he
captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers and twenty
thousand foot soldiers. David also struck down Arameans of Damascus who came to
help Hadadezer king of Zobah. The Lord gave David victory everywhere he went.
(vv.2-6).
King
David reigned over all Israel, doing what was just and right for all his people.
Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder;
Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and
Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief officials at the king’s
side.(vv.14-17).
1 Chronicles Chapter 19 Arameans were not willing to help the Ammonites anymore
In
the course of time, Nahash king of the Ammonites died, King David showed
kindness to Hanun song of Nahash, and expressed his sympathy to Hanun. However,
When David’s men came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy
to him, the Ammonite nobles said to Hanun, “ Haven’t his men come to you to
explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?” (v.3). So Hanun seized
David’s men, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks,
and sent them away.(v.4). Ammonites hired thirty-two thousand chariots and
charioteers , as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and
camped near Medeba, while the Ammonites were mustered from their towns and
moved out for battle. (v.7). On hearing this, David sent Joab out with the
entire army of fighting men. The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation
at the entrance to their city, while the kings who had come were by themselves
in the open country. Then Joab and the troops with him advanced to fight the
Arameans, and they fled before him. When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans
were fleeing, they too fled before his brother Abishai and went inside the city
.So Joab went back to Jerusalem. (vv.14-15). After Arameans saw that they had
been routed by Israel, they sent messengers and had Arameans brought from beyond
the River, the Shophach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.(v.16).
When David was told of this, he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan; he
advanced against them and formed his battle lines opposite them. David formed
his lines to meet the Arameans in battle and they fought against him. But they
fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and
forty thousand of their foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach the commander of
their army.(vv.17-18). When the vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been
defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So
the Arameans were not willing to help the Ammonites anymore.(v.19).
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Chronicles 20 King David’s adultery with Bathsheba and the battle with Rabbah, Philistines
In the spring, at the time
when kings go off to war, Joab led out the armed forces. He laid waste the land
of the Ammonites and went to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in
Jerusalem. (v.1). The scandal of David’s adultery with Bathsheba and his murder
of her husband, Uriah( 2 Sam.11), occurred during this time. Rabbah. The chief
city of the Ammonites, now called Amman, the capital of Jordan. Joab attacked Rabbah and left it in ruins.
David took the crown from the head of their king –its weight was found to be a
talent of gold, and it was set with precious stones and it was placed on
David’s head. He took a great quantity of plunder from the city and brought out
the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron
picks and axes. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his
entire army returned to Jerusalem. (vv.2-3). In the course of time, war broke
out with the Philistines, at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed
Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaites, and the Philistines were
subjugated. (v.4). In another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed
Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver’s
rod. (v.5).In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man
with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. Twenty –four in all. He
also was descended from Rapha. When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimea,
David’s brother, killed him. (vv.6-7). These were descendants of Rapha in Gath,
and they fell at the hands of David and his men.(v.8).
Bibliography,
Ryrie, Charles C. The Ryrie study Bible (NIV).Chicago,
IL: The Moody Bible Institute, 1986
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