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hey welcome back to a year in the bible we're glad to be journeying through scripture all this

year with you we're starting the book of Second Samuel today, CJ. Will you give us a quick recap of just like where we're at before we jump into Second Samuel? Sure. So I'll try to give a recap. Yeah, quick recap of every place that we've been. Yeah, sure, sure. So in First Samuel at the very beginning, Hannah prayed to the Lord that she would have a child, and that child ended up being Samuel.

And after the birth of Samuel, she praised this prayer, song, poem, piece of prophecy, that sort of defines the themes of Samuel.

So we have, the Lord will raise up the humble, but he'll bring down the

arrogant. He will anoint his king, these sorts of themes that just really define Samuel.

So then Samuel grows up and he becomes a judge and a prophet, and the people end up wanting

a king, which is something that we've already experienced in scripture.

And Samuel says, okay, you guys want a king and God wants to give you a king, but you guys seem to want to take a king for yourself.

So we're going to give you a king after your own image, I guess to use a poetic turn of phrase.

They're going to have this king who's tall and mighty and he seems like he'd be a good warrior, and that's Saul. But Saul quickly, we realize, is just not the guy. So the kingship is ripped from him, and God says, I'm going to give it to David. And David's anointed, and David's on the run from Saul. And at the very end of 1st Samuel, Saul dies, and now we're anticipating that David's going to take the

throne, and that's where we are in 2nd Samuel 1. That was a great recap. Okay, so 2nd Samuel,

today we're in chapters 1 through 3. Let's break down these chapters. So in 2nd Samuel 1,

Saul and Jonathan just died at the hands of the Philistines, and this Amalekite guy,

who seems to be sort of an opportunist, comes to David and says, oh yeah, I stumbled upon Saul,

and Saul asked me to kill him because he didn't want to be, you know, taking advantage of or

whatever. So I killed him, you know, aren't you proud of me, or am I going to get some sort of blessing for it? And David says, you would stretch out your hand against the Lord's anointed, which reminds us of how David acted in 1st Samuel 24 and 26. No one should reach their hand out against the Lord's anointed. So what turned out to be, or, you know, what this guy thought would be a blessing ends up actually

being his death sentence because David is not going to handle that very well.

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