Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Apart from the Psalms, it's been a while since we've checked in on David and his storyline.

The last time we saw him was 10 days ago on day 111.

Let's do a quick refresher of where we are in the story before we jump into today's recap.

For today's reading, David has been king of the tribe of Judah for about seven years.

The other tribes have been following Saul's son Ishbosheth, but then two of Ishbosheth's

military leaders murdered him.

And right before that happened, Ishbosheth's military commander, Abner, stepped down from

his position and went around convincing all the other tribes that they should follow David

instead.

So that's where we are when we pick up today's reading.

We hit 2 Samuel V first, then jumped over to 1 Chronicles 11 and 12, which recounted a

lot of what we just read in 2 Samuel V.

And that's often how it will be when we incorporate Chronicles into our reading.

But remember that it will often give its own lens on things, taking out some things

that are less favorable, adding in some things that we don't see elsewhere, let it flesh

out your understanding of these stories a bit more.

Since these chapters mostly covered the same stories today, I'll do the recap as an

overview of all three chapters at once.

Finally, David is anointed king over the other tribes, unifying the nation of Israel.

David was 30 years old at this point, which means he had to wait roughly 15 years between

the time Samuel anointed him as king over Israel and the time he actually became king over

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