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You can also check out all these Reading Plans Blogs to go through the Bible in a year from Back to the Bible Reading Lists:the Chronological Reading Plan blog; OT and NT Together blog; Historical Readings blog; Blended Readings blog and Beginning to End blog In addition, there is the Theophilus1 blog in the One Year Bible format and The Daily Bible in Chronological Order
The Back to the Bible Beginning to End Reading Plan
Index of Historical Readings
Today's reading 2 Samuel 3-5; Luke 14.25-35
King James Version with Web Encyclopedia Links: 2Samuel 3; 2Samuel 4; 2Samuel 5; Luke 14
In 2 Samuel 3
The sons born to David are listed in 1Samuel 3.2-5; 1Chronicles 3.1-4.
Abner goes over to David (v. 6-21) and Joab murders Abner (v. 22-38)
Arthur Pink Life of David on 2Samuel 3 more
2Samuel 4
When Ish-Bosheth, the son of Saul found out that Abner had died in Hebron, he became afraid and all Israel became alarmed. Now Saul’s two men, Baariah and Recab, went to Ish-Bosheth’s house when he was taking the noonday rest and cowardly murdered Ish-Bosheth when he was sleeping. They chpped off his head and took it to David at Hebron, expecting a reward. David ordered his men to kill Baariah and Recab for murdering an innocent man while he was sleeping n his bed..
Arthur Pink Life of David on 2Samuel 3&4 more
2 Samuel 5
2Samuel 5.1-3; 1Chronicles 11.1-3: All the tribes came to Hebron, David made a compact with them and they anointed him king over all of Israel, David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned for forty years in all.
Arthur Pink Life of David on 2Samuel 5
Arthur Pink Life of David on 2Samuel 5 more
King David
David captured Jerusalem (2Samuel 5.6-10; 1Chronicles 11.1-9) from the Jebusites and called it the City of David. Notice verse 10 stated that David became more powerful because the Lord God Almighty was with Him. In 2Samuel 5.11-16; 1Chronicles 3.5-9; 14.1-7, there is a description of the children born to David.
When the Philistines heard that David was king over all Israel, they launched an attack against Israel. David inquired of the Lord wheteher he should attack the Philistines and whether God would hand them over to him. God told him to go and attack. The victory was David. And he defeated them. We remembered Saul and before his tragic death, he inquired of the Lord but there was no answer, that was when he had contacted the witch of Endor and things went bad for Saul and he died.
Arthur Pink Life of David on 2Samuel 5 - Capture of Zion
Arthur Pink Life of David on 2Samuel 5 - Defeat of the Philistines
Arthur Pink Life of David on 2Samuel 5&6 - Bring of the Ark
Links to Commentaries and other References - 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 3, with Commentaries, verse by verse
2 Samuel 4, with Commentaries, verse by verse
2 Samuel 4, with Commentaries, verse by verse
Luke 14 with Commentaries, verse by verse
In Luke 11.25-35 Jesus spoke about the Cost of Discipleship. What does it cost? It will cost me EVRYTHING to follow Him. It will cost you to lose your family, your material possessions, your ambitions, dreams, pleasures, vices, and addictions and so on. He concluses with the haunting phrase 'He who has ears to hear le him hear'
The Cost of By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and costly grace." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves... grace without discipleship....Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know....It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life."
The Cost of Discipleship is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty.
IVP Commentary - Pure Discipleship Luke 14
Links to Commentaries and other References - Luke
Bible Study Tools
Jesus Saves
How to Become a Christian
This Posting is NOT a commentary of the passages read today but it is a devotional. Please send a comment if something spoke to you today from the passages, links or thoughts that I have shared with you.
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