of faith. David found it so. It may be your experience also. David and Adullam 1 Sam. 22:1, 2 David in his time of rejection be came a great blessing to many. There was something about him that brought blessing and inspiration to all who came in contact with him. What a crowd it was that repaired to David at Adullam! But they came as they were and lost their burden. One cannot help thinking of Another who by His rejection has brought release to millions who have come to His cross and felt the burden of sin and distress taken away. David and the Crown 2 Sam. 5:1-5 Following his trying experience of humiliation, David was finally placed upon the throne. After the cross came the crown. So it was in the life of our Lord. So also in a very real sense is it with every one of His followers. Helps for the Children David of Bethlehem 1 Sam. 16; 18:1-16; 22:1, 2; 23:15-18; 2 Sam. 1; 5:1-5 Memory Verse: “David behaved him self wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him” (1 Sam. 18:14). God could no longer trust Saul to rule His people wisely. Even before his death, Saul was rejected by God as the king of Israel. One day God told His faithful prophet Samuel to go to Beth lehem and anoint the one who some day should become the king. Samuel called before him seven sons of a man named Jesse. He thqught that surely one of these was to be the n^w king of Israel. As each came before Samuel, God told Samuel that this was not the one to be anointed king. When Samuel asked Jesse if he had any other children, he replied that the youngest was caring for the sheep. When David, the shep herd boy, came to Samuel, God said, “ Arise, anoint him, for this is he.” When David went back to his sheep, he knew that some day God would use him to rule the Israelites! Even as David lived in the palace and played his harp for King Saul, he behaved himself wisely in all his ways, for he knew that God was preparing him to become a great king. When Saul tried to kill David, David hid in a cave. Hi3 father and his brothers and all of those who were in trouble or unhappy came to him in the cave and he became their leader. Jonathan came and comforted David when the shepherd boy was hid ing from Saul. David and Jonathan loved one another dearly, and Jonathan told David that his father would not find him and kill him, but that some day David should be the king in Saul's place. Years later,- after Saul had been killed in battle, the people of Israel made David their king. He was thirty
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ness was outstanding. He ruled in the fear of God and the Lord prospered his reign. He provides a model for all subsequent rulers. King David’s First Expedition 2 Sam. 5:6-10 This first expedition of David after he became king was directed against the Jehusites who long had been lo cated on the site of Jerusalem. The lat ter had for generations been the capi tal of the Jehusites who refused to be dislodged from their strongly fortified position. Even after the time of our lesson the Jehusites seem to have con tinued to have some contact with this place for we read in the last chapter of Second Samuel that David bought the tempie area from “ Araunah the Jebu- site” (24:18). However, political, civil, and military considerations caused David to look upon Jerusalem as the place suitable for his capital. Its position was strategic for almost every traveler who trod the cen tral route of Palestine from north to Page Thirty-five
years old when he became king, and he ruled for forty years. David the shep herd boy had learned kindness, depend ability, courage, and joyful obedience to God’s will. Now God could use him to wisely rule His people Israel, be cause “ David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him.”
August 31, 1952 THE REIGN OF DAVID
2 Sam. 5:6-10; 8:13-18 Pointers on the Lesson
Today’s lesson considers David’s ex periences shortly after he had been made king of all Israel at Hebron (2 Sam. 5:1-5). In the latter place he was to reign seven and one-half years following which he made his headquar ters at Jerusalem. The passages chosen for this lesson set forth the great abil ity of David as a statesman in estab lishing and ruling his kingdom. David’s administration of justice and righteous-
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