David’s Last Mistake: What Happens When Leaders Rely on Numbers

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Matt Mullins

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🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When King David decides to count his fighting men, it seems like a harmless leadership move—until God responds with judgment. In this episode, we explore the tension between pride and trust, the hidden dangers of relying on numbers over faith, and the surprising way God turns punishment into mercy. What does it mean to offer a sacrifice that costs you something? And how can we lead with humility in a results-driven world? Join us as we unpack the final chapter of 2 Samuel—and discover why a threshing floor became holy ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Bible Stories. We are your host, Todd Heyman. Hello. My name is Matt Mullins. We are two friends and two ministers who love the stories of the Bible, and we want to tell you all about it. And for the first time in a year and a half, we're in the same room. I'm looking at your eyeballs right now, Matt.
0:37.9	Lucky you.
0:39.1	I love it.
0:39.7	I love it.
0:40.5	Well, today, you have one of my favorite types of stories.
0:43.2	You've brought us a story about David.
0:45.5	I have.
0:46.5	You know, from what I can tell, this is something that was probably later in King David's
0:51.8	years.
0:53.0	So, Matt, last episode, we ended with like a second Goliath getting
0:58.0	taken down, right? Matt, can you share just a couple sentences of like what happened,
1:03.3	essentially? So in our last episode, we found in Second Samuel 21, I think, right? There were four
1:09.3	different giants that were brought to light.
1:11.7	And one of those giants was the brother of Goliath.
1:15.5	And there are two different accounts of the same event happening.
1:18.6	One of them refers to him by another name.
1:21.1	And the other refers to him as Goliath.
1:24.1	Goliath's brother also named Goliath.
1:27.6	Tough.
1:28.4	That's, you know, but good for their parents.
1:31.4	I mean, just Goliath, get over here, both of you, you know?
1:34.1	Makes it easier, particularly when you're monogramming things.
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