Hey, welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

We love jumping into scripture every day with you.

So today we're jumping into 2nd Samuel 19 through 21.

When we left off, David's son Absalom had been killed.

Yep.

David was grieving in that moment.

What happens next, CJ?

Yeah, so Joab is frustrated that David is so sad.

It's like you're kind of dishonoring the army and everyone who's been fighting for you

by saying the enemy who just died is causing all this

pain and turmoil. But David's saying this is my son. But regardless, David eventually gets over it.

He takes the throne again in Jerusalem. But then in 2nd Samuel 20, a man named Sheba, a Benjaminite.

He resists David's return to the throne, and he starts to get some followers.

And the text says that all Israel defected from David and followed Shaba.

Now, this might just be hyperbole, like, you know, it doesn't necessarily mean every last

Israelite, but it means a good chunk of Israelites started to follow him instead of David.

So that's something that happens, And eventually, David puts down the rebellion

and everything sort of cools off a little bit. And then in 2nd Samuel 21, we learned that a famine

in the land pops up, and it was caused by Saul. And the reason it was caused by Saul is because

he had broken the covenant that Joshua

back in the book of Joshua with the Ghibionites.

Wow.

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