He sent from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. What does that sound like?

It's the Hebrew word Maasah. It's the drawing of Moses out of the water. Yeah. And that particular

word occurs three times in the entirety of the Hebrew Bible. So essentially, David is saying

something like, the role that I'm playing here is the role that Moses played. And then when we look at the Sinai covenant imagery, I think it's like David is saying,

God made this covenant at Mount Sinai and then go.

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Okay, guys. So last week we got to the, at least what you told me,

was the end of the timeline for Second Samuel, of course, but not the end of the book, as we'll

have a few more episodes in Second Samuel. And what we covered is David quelled the rebellion, but

sort of not really because it kind of seems like Joab is in control because of the reflections

you guys had, which I found honestly pretty

fascinating at the end of chapter 20. Anything else to add about sort of our recent coverage?

Nope. Okay. So today we're going to cover the first half of Samuel's epilogue, 21 and 22.

So you want to just help us understand the overall structure of where we're at

and how we know that this is what you're saying that it is? It is a flashback. Well, what we're

going to see in chapter 21 is an account of David vindicating the Ghibionites, which is clearly

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