Hello and welcome to the scriptures a real podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that are very real to us so that we can draw power into our lives from them. I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and this is another shortcast to help us go through this

storyline that's really the storyline of David at this point. That's what we're doing this week,

and we'll at the very end hit a little bit about Solomon. So let's jump in where we left off

in the last one. In the last short cast, we were talking about how Saul had died and now David is being anointed king.

But he's initially only anointed king over all of Judah.

So he's in Hebron.

Hebron is the place where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph are buried.

It's a very significant site for all of Israel as a result, but it's also very firmly in the territory of Judah.

Judah is the southernmost tribe, and it's south in Judah.

This is definitely Judah territory.

And that's where Judah will anoint David King.

As I said, he's been anointed by Samuel to be king of all Israel, but not accepted by all of Israel yet.

So David is going to go to Hebron and he's anointed king.

He'll be king there for seven years.

And it's seven years and six months that he's king only over Judah and not over all of Israel.

And then he said to reign for 40 years over Israel. So,

David, he has a couple things going on here. One, this contest is somewhat between David and

Ish Bosheth, the son of Saul. Now, Ish Bosheth is not his real name, I'm guessing. And it's hard to know

what to do with names. So for example, David or David, it means beloved. And David is known as

being the beloved of the Lord. So is that a name that became his throne name? It wasn't his

original birth name. I don't know. That's possible. It's also quite possible that someone names

their child beloved, right? So I just don't know. But Ish Bosheth I feel more confident about

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