Hey, thanks for listening to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

We're walking through the entire Bible in the year.

We are journeying day by day, chapter by chapter.

And today we're in 2nd Samuel 16 through 18.

And we talked about how David was on the run from Saul. David was put on

the throne. He was no longer on the run. Then David has this moment of sin and of judgment.

And now we find David on the run again. From his own son this time, right? From his own son.

That's right. Exactly.

So then as he's on the run, he meets these two characters, which are going to be key in the coming chapters. He meets a guy named Ziba, who if you remember is Mephy Beauxheth's servant, and

Mephy Bocheth is Jonathan's son, Saul's grandson. And Ziba here claims that Mephi Beosheheth is treasonous and that he's like Absalom

and he wants to take over David's throne.

And Ziba, again, is trying to ingratiate himself with David for telling him this.

So David thanks him for alerting him to this and he gives him all of Mephi Bosh at this estate.

That's hard to say with an S on the end.

You did great.

All right.

And then David travels along still, and he's still fleeing, and he meets another man of Saul's

house named Shime, and he comes cursing and throwing stones at David.

And this man says, the Lord has repaid you for all the bloodshed of Saul. And we're going to return to these two people because how they ultimately respond to David is going to be interesting. But for now, it's important to know that Ziba seems to be on David's side and Shimei seems to be against David. Okay? Okay. So we'll come back to that. We'll come back to that.

Okay. So then noting that we'll come back to that, what happens next? So now Absalom has

entered Jerusalem and through the advice of a foolish counselor, he decides to enter into his

dad's concubines. In other words, this is sort of a show of power to show that he has usurped his father.

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