25 David

- What was God’s desire for Israel?
- Did He want to be their King?
- Why did Israel want to be like all the other nations?

- Was it too difficult to love God?
- Who did God appoint to be King over Israel?

1 Samuel 5:1-4
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron
and spoke, saying, “Indeed we are your bone and your
flesh. Also, in time past, when Saul was king over us,
you were the one who led Israel out and brought them
in; and the LORD said to you, ‘You shall shepherd My
people Israel, and be ruler over Israel.’” Therefore all
the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and
King David made a covenant with them at Hebron
before the LORD. And they anointed David king over
Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned forty years.

- Did the people of Israel know who God appointed?
- Why was Saul then usurping the throne?

1 Samuel 7:8-17
Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David,
‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “I took you from the
sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over
My people, over Israel. And I have been with you
wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your
enemies from before you, and have made you a great
name, like the name of the great men who are on the
earth. Moreover I will appoint a place for My people
Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a
place of their own and move no more;

1 Samuel 7:8-17
nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them
anymore, as previously, since the time that I
commanded judges to be over My people Israel, and
have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the
LORD tells you that He will make you a house. “When
your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers,
I will set up your seed after you, who will come from
your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall
build a house for My name, and I will establish the
throne of his kingdom forever.

1 Samuel 7:8-17
I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he
commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men
and with the blows of the sons of men. But My mercy
shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom
I removed from before you. And your house and your
kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your
throne shall be established forever.”’” According to all
these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan
spoke to David.

- Who is God talking about?
- How can God be the father of David’s son?

- Did the promise seed descend from David?
- How was His kingdom going to be established forever?

- What was David’s response to the vision?

1 Samuel 7:18-29
Then King David went in and sat before the LORD; and
he said: “Who am I, O Lord GOD? And what is my house,
that You have brought me this far? And yet this was a
small thing in Your sight, O Lord GOD; and You have also
spoken of Your servant’s house for a great while to
come. Is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD? Now
what more can David say to You? For You, Lord GOD,
know Your servant. For Your word’s sake, and according
to Your own heart, You have done all these great things,
to make Your servant know them. Therefore You are
great, O Lord GOD. For there is none like You, nor is
there any God besides You, according to all that we have
heard with our ears.

1 Samuel 7:18-29
And who is like Your people, like Israel, the one nation
on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a
people, to make for Himself a name—and to do for
Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land—
before Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself
from Egypt, the nations, and their gods? For You have
made Your people Israel Your very own people forever;
and You, LORD, have become their God. “Now, O LORD
God, the word which You have spoken concerning Your
servant and concerning his house, establish it forever
and do as You have said. So let Your name be magnified
forever, saying, ‘The LORD of hosts is the God over
Israel.’

1 Samuel 7:18-29
And let the house of Your servant David be established
before You. For You, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, have
revealed this to Your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a
house.’ Therefore Your servant has found it in his heart
to pray this prayer to You. “And now, O Lord GOD, You
are God, and Your words are true, and You have
promised this goodness to Your servant. Now therefore,
let it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that
it may continue before You forever; for You, O Lord GOD,
have spoken it, and with Your blessing let the house of
Your servant be blessed forever.”

- Did David know God?
- Can we notice a difference with Saul?

- Is there a personal relation between God and David?
- Who inherited David’s throne?

1 Kings 3:3-5
And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the
statutes of his father David, except that he
sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.
Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for
that was the great high place: Solomon offered a
thousand burnt offerings on that altar. At Gibeon
the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night;
and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”

- Did Solomon follow in his father steps?
- What were those sacrifices in high places?
- What did God tell him?

1 Kings 3:6-10
And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to
Your servant David my father, because he walked
before You in truth, in righteousness, and in
uprightness of heart with You; You have continued
this great kindness for him, and You have given him a
son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. Now, O LORD
my God, You have made Your servant king instead of
my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know
how to go out or come in. And Your servant is in the
midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great
people, too numerous to be numbered or counted.

1 Kings 3:6-10
Therefore give to Your servant an understanding
heart to judge Your people, that I may discern
between good and evil. For who is able to judge this
great people of Yours?” The speech pleased the
Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

- Why did Solomon ask for wisdom
instead of riches and power?
- What do you need to have in order to ask in this manner?

- Was Solomon being Humble?
- Had he a personal relation with God?
- How did it go to Solomon with the gift of wisdom?

1 Kings 11:1-6
But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well
as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites— from
the nations of whom the LORD had said to the
children of Israel, “You shall not intermarry with them,
nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your
hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in
love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses,
and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned
away his heart.

1 Kings 11:1-6
For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives
turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was
not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his
father David. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the
goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the
abomination of the Ammonites. Solomon did evil in
the sight of the LORD, and did not fully follow the
LORD, as did his father David.

- Did Solomon follow the ways of his father David?
- Did God approve his behavior?
- Who is this goddess Ashtoreth?
Ashtoreth, the goddess of erotic love, fertility, and feminine dominance.

- Is there people today worshipping this goddess?
- Can men do what is right before God?
- What happens when we turn our hearts away from God?
- Can we repent if our heart is astray?

1 Kings 11:9-13
So the LORD became angry with Solomon, because his
heart had turned from the LORD God of Israel, who
had appeared to him twice, and had commanded him
concerning this thing, that he should not go after
other gods; but he did not keep what the LORD had
commanded. Therefore the LORD said to Solomon,
“Because you have done this, and have not kept My
covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded
you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and
give it to your servant.

1 Kings 11:9-13
Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake
of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of
your son. However I will not tear away the whole
kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake
of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem
which I have chosen.”

- What was God’s judgment?
- What do we observe from God?
- Why is God showing Him mercy?
- Was God faithful to David or to His promise?

- Will God have mercy on our children
if we are faithful to Him?
- What happened after God divided the kingdom?

2 Kings 17:4-13
And the king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy by
Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So, king of
Egypt, and brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as
he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria
shut him up, and bound him in prison. Now the king of
Assyria went throughout all the land, and went up to
Samaria and besieged it for three years. In the ninth
year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and
carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in
Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the
cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 17:4-13
For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned
against the LORD their God, who had brought them up
out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of
Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared other gods,
and had walked in the statutes of the nations whom
the LORD had cast out from before the children of
Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
Also the children of Israel secretly did against the LORD
their God things that were not right, and they built for
themselves high places in all their cities, from
watchtower to fortified city.

2 Kings 17:4-13
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden
images on every high hill and under every green tree.
There they burned incense on all the high places, like the
nations whom the LORD had carried away before them;
and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger,
for they served idols, of which the LORD had said to
them, “You shall not do this thing.” Yet the LORD testified
against Israel and against Judah, by all of His prophets,
every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep
My commandments and My statutes, according to all the
law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to
you by My servants the prophets.”

- What was God doing? Was He judging?
- What did God tell Israel through His prophets?
- Did He warn Israel before it happen?

- Could Israel repent from his evil ways?
- Was David’s inheritance of the kingdom doing better?

Jeremiah 32:26-30
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there
anything too hard for Me? Therefore thus says the
LORD: ‘Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the
Chaldeans, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and he shall take it. And the Chaldeans who
fight against this city shall come and set fire to this city
and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs they have
offered incense to Baal and poured out drink offerings
to other gods, to provoke Me to anger;

Jeremiah 32:26-30
because the children of Israel and the children of Judah
have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the
children of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with
the work of their hands,’ says the LORD.

- What was Jeremiah
prophesying over Jerusalem?
- Was God now passing
judgment over Judah?
- What was God’s plan
with Israel?
- Why did he keep Judah
apart from Israel?
- When and how did it happen?

2 Kings 25:1-12
Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in
the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came
against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they
built a siege wall against it all around. So the city was
besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. By
the ninth day of the fourth month the famine had
become so severe in the city that there was no food for
the people of the land. Then the city wall was broken
through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of
the gate between two walls, which was by the king’s
garden, even though the Chaldeans were still
encamped all around against the city.

2 Kings 25:1-12
And the king went by way of the plain. But the army of
the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him
in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from
him. So they took the king and brought him up to the
king of Babylon at Riblah, and they pronounced
judgment on him. Then they killed the sons of
Zedekiah before his eyes, put out the eyes of Zedekiah,
bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to
Babylon. And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of
the month (which was the nineteenth year of King
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon,
came to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:1-12
He burned the house of the LORD and the king’s
house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the
houses of the great, he burned with fire. And all the
army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of
the guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem all
around. Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carried away captive the rest of the people who
remained in the city and the defectors who had
deserted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the
multitude. But the captain of the guard left some of
the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.

- Why God didn’t avoid the siege of Jerusalem?
- Can the Holiness and Judgment of God be mocked?

- Why did their captors leave some
of the people in their lands?
- Can God separate the innocent
in the middle of judgment?

- How long was Israel in captivity?

WHAT DID WE LEARN TODAY?
- God desires to be King in our hearts.
- It is He who establish and remove the Kings of the earth.
- In order to please God, we must have a relationship based
in obedience and humility.
- True wisdom is found in meditating God’s word
and obeying its commands.
- The Judgment of God follows men’s disobedience
and rebellion.
- God delivers the innocent from judgment.
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