This is the Bible Book Club.

I'm Susan.

And I'm Heather.

And we're in the book of Second Samuel.

Welcome to the club.

Last episode in chapters five and six of Second Samuel, so much was going on.

It was kind of this eye-for- for an eye thing that they were doing.

Joab killed Abner, David cursed Joab. Beina and Rehob killed Ishpasef. David killed

Bena and Rikab. Despite all of this killing, David managed to unite the two kingdoms.

And Israel is finally becoming that nation under David,

a king after God's own heart. This event fulfilled prophecy from the past and pointed Israel

toward the future prophecy of Jesus. All right. In scene one, this United Nation gets a new capital.

Chapter 5, verse 6. The king and his men marched to Jerusalem

to attack the Jebizites who live there. The Jebysites said to David, you will not get in here.

Even the blind and the lame can ward you off. They thought David cannot get in here. Nevertheless,

David captured the fortress of Zion, which is the city of David.

On that day, David had said anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those lame and blind who are David's enemies.

That is why they say the blind and lame will not enter the palace.

David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the city of David.

He built up the area around it from the terraces inward.

It sounds a little confusing.

Let me explain.

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