Are you courageous sufficient to wish for His will in your life? Do you’ve the braveness to present your self over to Him totally? David was exiled from the town he constructed, dethroned by his personal son, separated from the ark of God, cursed by Saul’s descendants, and his individuals had been turning towards Him. Via all of it, David trusted God’s will for his life.
Absalom, King of Hebron – 2 Samuel 15:1-12
As soon as David forgave his son, Absalom took full benefit of being welcomed again into the royal household. He acquired a chariot, horses, and fifty males, then sat by the gate day by day, catching individuals on their strategy to see the king. Absalom was fairly the politician! He greeted them with handshakes and kisses, agreed with their claims, and lamented that the king had not designated anybody to deal with their instances. Then, he would simply casually point out that if he had been in cost, he would positively deal with it for them. This endeared the individuals to him, making them suppose he could be a great rule, perhaps even higher than his father.
After doing this for 4 years, Absalom requested David to let him go to Hebron and fulfill a sacrificial vow he made when he was exiled. As a result of David dominated over Judah from Hebron earlier than he turned the king of Israel, that is the place Absalom was born (1 Chronicles 3:1-4). Then, as a result of the temple had not but been constructed, it could have additionally been the place he was accustomed to creating sacrifices.
So, along with his father’s permission, Absalom set out for Hebron with 200 friends that he invited to share within the feast and worship. In the meantime, he despatched spies to every of the tribes telling them to declare him the king of Hebron when he blew his trumpet. As a result of his father reigned as king there first, the implication was clear. Absalom was pursuing the throne.
Although the tribes started to assemble round him, Absalom’s invited friends knew nothing concerning the plan. More than likely, these had been vital males who lived within the capital and had been invited as a result of he wished to get them away from his dad. He in all probability thought that in the event that they had been with him when the revolt occurred, they could stay with him as a substitute of leaving to hitch David. Then, as Absalom was providing sacrifices, he additionally known as for one in all David’s counselors to hitch him. Ahithophel was from Judah and fortunately joined the king’s son in Hebron.
David Flees Jerusalem – 2 Samuel 15:13-37
Phrase finally acquired to David that most of the individuals had been rallying round Absalom and selling him as their new king. David didn’t desire a battle to interrupt out within the capital metropolis, so he fled along with his servants and most of his family, abandoning solely ten concubines to maintain the home. Then, after they reached the outskirts of the town, David stopped and watched because the overseas mercenaries handed by. We imagine the Cherethites and Pelethites had been in all probability from Crete and Philistia.
However David additionally noticed the 600 males who had been with him since he left Gath after Saul died. David instructed their chief, Ittai, that he would possibly now not be the king and didn’t even know the place he was going. That they had no obligation to observe him into exile and will return to their very own nation and their very own king. He requested God’s blessing over these males and instructed Ittai to take them again to Gath. However Ittai instructed David they had been totally devoted to him. Their loyalties didn’t lie with their outdated nation or king however with David and his God. For the remainder of their lives, they had been certain to him. So, they continued on with the king as he crossed the brook Kidron, which is the stream between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.
Presently, the 2 clergymen, Abiathar and Zadok, got here up with the Levites and the ark of the covenant. However David instructed them to take the ark again to the town. He had made a tent for it there and that’s the place it belonged. God prepared, he wouldn’t should be other than it for lengthy. However David didn’t presume to know God’s will. He appeared to suppose that perhaps this was a part of his punishment for Bathsheba, or perhaps even for a way he dealt with his sons. So, he trusted God to convey him again to Jerusalem if it was His will. But when it was not, then he trusted Him in that, too. Both approach, the ark didn’t belong with David. It belonged in God’s chosen metropolis.
After they agreed to do no matter David stated, he instructed Zadok that as a prophet, he was a messenger. So, he and Abiathar ought to return to the town and relay messages to him via their sons, Ahimaaz, who belonged to Abiathar, and his son, Jonathan.
So, they went again to Jerusalem with the ark whereas David and his individuals ascended the Mount of Olives, crying, barefoot, and protecting their heads in mourning. Then, David was instructed that his counselor Ahithophel was amongst Absalom’s conspirators. He was Bathsheba’s grandfather and will have turned towards the king due to her, though we have no idea for sure. However when David heard this, he prayed that God would flip his counsel to foolishness so he wouldn’t be useful to Absalom.
