Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

Doesn't necessarily define the entire lived experience of David, but this event is going

to have profound impact on David, on David's family, and on Israel going forward.

We've often turned this into a morality tale, and there's a reason for that, but let's

just start with verse one.

It came to pass after the year was expired.

At the time when kings go forth to battle, we often key on that.

The David sent Joab and his servants with him in all Israel, and they destroyed the children

of Amin, embecedced Araba.

But David carried still at Jerusalem, and we often make hay out of that, and possibly

for good reasons.

I want to be a little cautious on that simply because this isn't the first time that a

king has sent his general to go to the fighting, nor will it be the last time that King does

the same thing.

So it does appear that the redactors are making the same point that we often do, which

is error number one.

Problem number one was that David tarried instead of going forth and doing his duty.

And that may be accurate.

That seems to be the point of the verbige in one.

On the other hand, maybe that wasn't so strange for a king to not always go to every battle,

though I think on a regular basis, David had in the past.

So problem number one, not being where he should be, possibly problem number two, he sees

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