WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.519 practical ways. Hey, if this is your first time tuning in, 4 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:16.559 then welcome to the Bible Guys. This is episode five 5 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:18.800 hundred and fifty. You might have missed a few things. 6 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:20.440 But if it's not your first time, why do you 7 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:24.000 keep coming back? You just welcomed the newbies and didn't 8 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:24.800 welcome the long time. 9 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:28.960 That's true, that's true. Well, that's that's my bent anyway, right, Okay, 10 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:33.439 I was welcome newbies first. So hey, we have a 11 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:35.640 great episode planning for you. But before we do, we 12 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:40.759 have something very different. I've never seen this opening before, 13 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:41.479 have you? 14 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:42.320 No? I have not. 15 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:46.520 Yeah. This is called passage questions. Yes, today we're talking 16 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:49.759 about David's final instructions. Okay, so we pulled together some 17 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:52.759 questions about following instructions. 18 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:56.679 Oh okay, okay, that's the second way. 19 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.000 That's the terrible segment were talking about. 20 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:00.000 Yeah, that's right, all right. 21 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.119 So here's the first one. If you had to follow 22 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:07.280 instructions written in a foreign language you don't understand, would 23 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:10.680 you risk it by trying to wing it or to 24 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:15.799 google translate every step. I think that's a no brainer. 25 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:17.519 Yeah, what do you do? Do you risk it? 26 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:20.319 Well? I mean, I guess it depends on the definition 27 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:21.079 of don't understand? 28 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:22.879 Do you follow instructions normally? 29 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.120 I guess what I'm saying, Yes, I do. But what 30 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:28.280 I'm saying is is like, if it's like Greek and 31 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:32.640 I almost understand a single word, then yeah, I'm going 32 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:33.560 to probably google it. 33 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:36.799 Well, I think the question says a foreign language you 34 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:42.000 don't understand, So maybe she's thinking Greek. No, it's literally 35 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:44.239 a foreign language you don't understand, so I don't understand 36 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:45.400 what the caveat is to you. 37 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:47.079 Now here's what I was thinking. I was thinking, like, 38 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:48.760 what if I partially understand. 39 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:49.480 It, it doesn't say that. 40 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:55.079 Well, if I don't fully under instructions. Yeah, if I 41 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:57.799 don't fully understand something, then I don't understand. 42 00:01:57.879 --> 00:01:59.439 Well, she's assuming you don't understand it. 43 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.400 Literally says I can look at instructions that say it's 44 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:04.120 something about the phalangy. 45 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:09.159 I'm telling you. I'm telling you the instructions she's giving 46 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:12.680 you is fine. It's a foreign language, yes, and and 47 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:16.879 wait for it. You don't understand it doesn't say you 48 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:17.879 partially understand it. 49 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:19.599 Now you happened to think there's area. 50 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:20.680 There's no gray area. 51 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:22.439 Partially understand means don't understand. 52 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:24.520 Oh my gosh, people, Now you see what I work 53 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:25.360 with every day. 54 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:33.479 Oh what a version that you are with me? All right, okay, 55 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:34.680 because I'm a step person? 56 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:35.080 Yeah? 57 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:37.159 Are you a non step person? No? 58 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.879 I use the instructions too, Okay, so bad. 59 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:43.439 Google Translate instructions are better than no instructions. 60 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.759 I use Google Translate all the time. Oh yeah, all 61 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:48.759 the time. I'm overseas all the time, and I can't 62 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:52.120 read menus. This is very important to me. I bet 63 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:55.360 you I have it's still in my photos thing back 64 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:57.439 when you used to have to take pictures with Google Translation. 65 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:00.280 I probably have three hundred photos of things I'm trying 66 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:01.479 to translate, right, Probably want to. 67 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:02.199 Free up that memory. 68 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.520 Yeah, I got a lot of memory on my phone 69 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:07.280 because of that, Because of that, But yeah, I use 70 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:07.680 it all time. 71 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:09.080 So we're that way. 72 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:12.599 But the Google Translate things are really funny. I was 73 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.479 in a restaurant in Egypt, and of course I don't 74 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:18.919 read Arabic, so I'm using this thing and it's not 75 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:22.560 super accurate in Arabic and one of the menu items 76 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:28.560 was pregnant woman delivery. Wow. Yeah, I'm not sure what 77 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:29.719 that was. But I didn't order it. 78 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.039 No, I don't think I would want either. 79 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:33.319 I didn't want to to pay for it the rest 80 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:37.199 of my life. So there's that. But yeah, I was like, 81 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:38.159 I'm not sure what that means. 82 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:39.759 I don't think I'm going to order that. Yeah, I'm 83 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:41.919 not going to sign up for that. That's really good. 84 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:44.000 All right. You want to read the next one. 85 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:48.159 It says if you followed instructions perfectly Chris, yes, but 86 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.199 still ended up with a mess. Would you blame the 87 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:52.400 instructions or your own questionable skills? 88 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:58.520 This is a hard one because actually, I'm sure you've 89 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:01.080 done this because I followed my sure of instructions because 90 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:03.759 we're old, right, But isn't it true that you have 91 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:06.800 come up well older than the average bear? 92 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:09.400 Okay, so. 93 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:13.719 You know after thirty years of being a homeowner, that's 94 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.399 what I'm trying to say. I see, don't you haven't 95 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:18.600 you come across a company with poor instructions? 96 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:21.040 Oh? Tons, yes, tons of them? 97 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:23.519 So I guess again this is a little bit of 98 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:27.120 a but who do you blame? Well, if it's poor instructions. 99 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:28.759 Then I absolutely blame the company. 100 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.560 I do too. We're two for two on this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 101 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:34.879 If I follow your instructions, and I'm an instructions follower, yes, 102 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:37.720 and you gave me bad instructions, then right now. There 103 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:40.120 have been many times where I realized they were giving 104 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.879 me bad instructions and I altered my course. I got 105 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:44.600 it right anyways. 106 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:45.600 Wow. 107 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:47.399 But you know, because I do, you read ahead on 108 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:51.519 the instructions almost always. Yeah. So I'll read through the 109 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:55.600 instructions and then I'll lay out all the stuff. Yeah, 110 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:58.639 and then I'll try to figure out does this make sense? Okay, 111 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:01.399 and then as I'm putting some together, I keep reading 112 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:02.319 ahead the next couple. 113 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:02.680 Yeah. 114 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:05.160 Always. And so if you begin to realize, well, if 115 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:06.439 I do this, I want I can be aleut this 116 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:08.240 thing on, well, then yeah, I'll alter it. 117 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:10.959 That way I think I have. This is the only 118 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:13.560 the only exception that I have in this rule is 119 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:17.040 if it seems really intuitive, even though I don't know 120 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.360 how to put it together. But it's like, oh, I understand, 121 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:21.600 you know, the left bones connected to the right bone 122 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:23.319 over here, and then and then I lay it all 123 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:25.639 out because I did the exact same thing. Sometimes I 124 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:29.519 won't read ahead because it seems like, wow, these instructions 125 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:30.279 are really good. 126 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:32.720 Yeah, so then then I won't read ahead. Okay. 127 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:36.480 Number three, If you could ask one question to the 128 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:41.279 person who wrote a particularly confusing set of instructions, would 129 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:50.319 it be she has written are you okay? Or did 130 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:53.519 you enjoy writing this? While laughing maniacally? 131 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:59.040 Ah? I'm not sure about this question, but both and 132 00:05:59.160 --> 00:05:59.720 then more. 133 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:02.160 I think she was laughing when she wrote this. Yes, yes, 134 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:04.279 she probably thought in her head this was really fun. 135 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:07.279 Yea yeah yeah yeah so uh so like so I'm 136 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:07.720 looking at. 137 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:09.800 The instruction writer and I go, you okay? Are you okay? 138 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:12.120 Are you okay? Did someone hurt you? 139 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.439 Well? Sometimes sometimes the way some instructions are written, they're 140 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.000 written it it's like some drunk wrote them right right right? 141 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.600 Or did you enjoy writy? Did you enjoy wriddy this? 142 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:22.720 Ha ha ha? 143 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:27.040 There you go laughing maniacally? So, because we don't know 144 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:28.120 how to answer that, just pick one. 145 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:31.720 Well, speaking of instructions, Oh, you're not going to answer yes, 146 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.240 not even answer now, I said both, I said, and 147 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:40.680 then so okay, but uh, maniacal instructions? Have you ever 148 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:44.279 read First Corinthians chapter two. Ye, First Kings, I mean 149 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:48.839 I've read both. Yes, yeah, David gets a little off yeah, 150 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:51.639 off the wall here and his final instructions of Solomon. Yes, 151 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:52.600 that's we're talking about today. 152 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:55.000 That was an easy transition, because that's why she wrote 153 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:55.240 the same. 154 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:59.160 Yes, I think so. Thanks, So it's pretty crazy. Yes, 155 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:01.560 and when I you have you ever read First King's 156 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:02.560 chapter too? Of course you have. 157 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:04.000 Yeah. Well I've read the Bible. 158 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:07.720 Yeah, yeah, big fan. It's a fan, big, big fan. 159 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.480 It's it's it's probably a prerequisite to claiming to be 160 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:12.120 a Bible guy. 161 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:14.439 I've met guys who didn't haven't read the Bible that 162 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:15.600 claimed to be Bible guys. 163 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:17.800 So that is true. That is true. 164 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:21.720 Okay, Well we are in First Kings chapter two. Yes, 165 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.519 we have spent a significant amount of time in the 166 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:25.160 life of David. 167 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:27.879 Oh well, his weeks. Well, I mean think about this, 168 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.360 I mean, how how much you you mentioned this yesterday? 169 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:33.720 How much real estate in the Bible does he cover? 170 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:37.279 Oh yeah, he covers a bunch and yeah, very significant, 171 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:41.240 and his influence is spread over almost all the rest 172 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:43.759 of it. Yes, right, so one of the central figures 173 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.319 of the Bible and he reflects most of us in 174 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:49.639 different ways, or we reflect him in that way. So 175 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:51.879 there's a lot to learn from the life of David. Well, 176 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:55.040 here we come to the end of David's life. If 177 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.199 you're just joining us. Last week we wrapped up the 178 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:02.759 intrigue and the excitement around getting Solomon on the throne 179 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:07.079 when there was a coup that he was able to. Yeah, 180 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:10.120 it's unbelievable, so very exciting. Should go back and listen 181 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:13.600 to those episodes. But today we're picking up at the 182 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.879 very end. These are David's final instructions to his son Solomon, 183 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:19.360 who sits on the throne now, and it says as 184 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:22.560 the time of King David's death approached, he gave this 185 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.199 charge to his son Solomon. I am going where everyone 186 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:29.680 on earth must someday. Go. Take courage and be a man. 187 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:33.080 Observe the requirements of the Lord, your God, and follow 188 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:37.200 all his ways. Keep the decrees, commands, regulations and laws 189 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:39.399 written in the Law of Moses, so that you will 190 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.360 be successful and all you do and wherever you go. 191 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:44.159 If you do this, then the Lord will keep the 192 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:46.720 promise he made to me. He told me, if your 193 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:49.039 descendants live as they should and follow me faithful with 194 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:51.200 all their heart and soul. One of them will always 195 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:54.320 sit on the throne of Israel. I kind of wish 196 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:58.240 he'd stop there, because then he says, and there's something else. 197 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.080 You know what Joe Abbs, son of Zariah did to 198 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:03.559 me when he murdered my two army commanders, Abner's son 199 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:07.039 of Ner and Amasa, son of Jeether. He pretended that 200 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.000 it was an act of war, but it was done 201 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.320 in a time of peace, staining his belt and sandals 202 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.519 with innocent blood. Do with him what you think best, 203 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:16.519 but don't let him grow old and go to his 204 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:17.559 grave in peace. 205 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:18.639 Wow. 206 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:20.080 And then he says, be kind to the sons of 207 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:23.639 Barzilai of Gilead, make them permanent guests at your table, 208 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:25.200 for they took care of me when I fled from 209 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:28.639 your brother Absalom. And remember Simii son of Ghiria, the 210 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.919 man from Bahrum in Benjamin. He cursed me with a 211 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:35.240 terrible curse as I was fleing in Mahanaam. When he 212 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:37.080 came down to meet me at the Jordan River, I 213 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:38.759 swore by the Lord that I would not kill him. 214 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:41.360 But that oath does not make him innocent. You're a 215 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:44.080 wise man, and you will know how to arrange a 216 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:48.240 bloody death for him. And then David died and was 217 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:51.080 buried with his ancestors in the city of David. David 218 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.480 had reigned over Israel for forty years, seven of them 219 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:57.639 in Hebron and thirty three in Jerusalem. Solomon became king 220 00:09:57.720 --> 00:09:59.559 and sat on the throne of David, his father and 221 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:05.639 his king them was firmly established. David's buttoning things up 222 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:08.000 right before he dies, isn't he. Yeah, I got a 223 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:09.799 couple more things for you to do for me, Simon. 224 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:15.960 I've always wanted to kill these two guys. Yeah. Uh, 225 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.600 you know the curse he cursed me with the terrible 226 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:20.279 curses I was fleeing Mannaheim. 227 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:22.080 Yeah when when when he maybe. 228 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:23.320 Down the Jordan River, I swore by the Lord I 229 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:24.080 would not kill him. 230 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:24.399 Yeah. 231 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:26.159 I don't seem to remember that curse. 232 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:28.519 So I looked it up because I was. I was 233 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.120 having a hard time with it too, So shimmy, I 234 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:33.600 cursed David. Oh you know what, Actually it was something 235 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:36.320 we skipped. No, no, no, we read this curse. Yep, 236 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.480 it happened. Well, David was fleeing from Uh, it's stuck now. 237 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:45.879 It happened while David was fleeing from Absolom yep. And 238 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:47.879 he gets down to the river, he's getting ready to cross, 239 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:51.840 and Shimmy I comes out and uh says, you're sitting 240 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:55.639 on Saul's throne, and God's gonna judge you because all 241 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:58.120 the blood on your hands and all these things. Well 242 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.519 then later on news get it's out that Saul is dead, 243 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:04.279 I mean, not the sauce, that the Absolom is dead, 244 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:07.240 and Shimmy I remember, comes to him like hat in hand. 245 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.480 I'm so sorry. I don't know what I was thinking. 246 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:11.879 And David goes, don't worry, I'm not going to kill you. 247 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:17.080 Remember this is that time Abner at this point right 248 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:19.759 had had turned against him all these things, and he 249 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:22.440 forgives all these guys. Remember we talked about how magnanimous 250 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:25.639 David was. Yeah, for sure when he finally succeeded and 251 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:27.200 won against this coup. 252 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:29.480 When he says curse, is he talking about an actual curse? 253 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:32.320 You know what I mean, like like like a proclamation. 254 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:34.360 Well, it was saying you're going to fall off the 255 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:36.720 throne and sow's your family forever? Okay, Yeah, yeah, so 256 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.120 that's what. So he's he's all mad. Now, David's like 257 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:43.759 I told him I wouldn't kill him, but right, sallin, 258 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:45.639 you're a wise man. You should do what you know 259 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:45.960 what to do. 260 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.120 But now after forty years, I'm no longer king. 261 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:49.600 Yeah, that's right, you're a king. 262 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:52.440 There's a new regime. That's right, the opportunity to do 263 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:53.399 what I always wanted to do. 264 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:56.519 So I also looked this up. He says, you're a 265 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:58.639 wise man, and you'll know how to arrange a bloody 266 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:01.799 death for him. That's pretty rough in the English translation, Yeah, 267 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:06.679 but the exact translation would really be don't let his 268 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:10.519 white head go down to Sheol in peace. So sheol 269 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:13.240 is one of the words that can be translated as hell. Yes, 270 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:15.759 so he says, don't let his old body go to 271 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:16.440 Hell in peace? 272 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:24.960 Whoa wow? As if as if that's not enough fun, right, Hey, 273 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:27.759 don't make it a comfortable ride to Hell? Yeah, yeah, 274 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:29.240 getting uncomfortable. 275 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:32.919 That's exactly what he's saying. Oh yeah, so this is 276 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:35.840 what makes David so so unbelievable that it's why God 277 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:39.000 didn't let David build the temple, right, because David's a 278 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:39.600 bloody man. 279 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:43.600 Yeah, And I mean that's exactly why, God said. God said, 280 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:45.039 I'm not going to have you do it because there's 281 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:47.000 blood in your hands. Right, he said, I'm gonna have 282 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:49.799 Solomon do it because because your life has been spent. 283 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.120 I mean, think about his entire life forty years now, 284 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:55.120 he had years of piece finally, right, how many years 285 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:56.360 of piece do you think he had? Ten? 286 00:12:57.519 --> 00:13:00.279 Well, he had he had the time with appso was 287 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:04.120 less than a year. And the rest of it was 288 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:07.120 he was at war with the Philistines and the Assyrians. 289 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:11.120 But then he finally conquered right, yeah, yeah, yeah, so 290 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:12.159 probably less. 291 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:15.519 Than less intent. Yeah, he was constantly in battle, she. 292 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.639 Wish and uh yeah, so this poor guy, I mean 293 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.600 just and even even back a couple podcasts ago when 294 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:25.919 when God said, hey, there's a punishment for the for 295 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:28.320 the census that he took, and he said, I'll give 296 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:30.240 you a choice, which is pretty wild. By the way. 297 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:34.399 Choice of punishment reminds me of that movie Goodwill Hunting. 298 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:36.200 He said, my father will call me in and put 299 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.919 a switch or wrench. He says, choose your choose your 300 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:45.840 punishment anyway, good Will Hunting. No, okay, okay, anyway. The 301 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:49.080 point is is that God says, choose your punishment, and 302 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:52.080 one of the punishments was run from your enemies for 303 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.159 three months, and David said out loud, I would rather 304 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:58.200 put my fate in the hands of a merciful God 305 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:02.200 than any enemy enemies. I mean, think about all his 306 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:05.279 life he had been spent running from enemies, and he's 307 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.679 probably getting PSD you knowd PTSD flashbags right where he's like, 308 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:11.600 I'm not going to do that again. I'm too old 309 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:12.240 for that stuff. 310 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:14.840 Well it sounds like a really hard thing, but we 311 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:18.440 have to remember that Shimmy I was a trader, yeah, 312 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:23.159 working for a coup against the king, the one that 313 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:28.000 God had ordained. And David showed mercy in the moment. 314 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:30.559 But he says here, the fact that I made an 315 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:33.759 oath doesn't make him innocent, right, And so that's why 316 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:36.440 he tells Solomon, Hey, uh, you know you need to 317 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.879 execute him, because, yeah, he was a trader, and you 318 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:39.720 can't trust a trader. 319 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.320 And it could have been honestly that David made that 320 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:46.960 choice to spare Shimmy I. Is that his name. Yeah, uh, 321 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:52.679 probably for different reasons, right, not just for you know, 322 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:54.879 the judgment of whether or not he deserved it or not, 323 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:58.480 but also like a political move how it's being seen. 324 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:02.799 I wanted to send him message of mercy, right, I mean, 325 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:05.080 like he could he could, he could have made that 326 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:07.000 decision for all sorts of reasons. 327 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:12.799 Yeah, you know, so you see this in shim he forgives, 328 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:16.240 he doesn't forgive shimy I. He chooses not to execute 329 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:19.399 SIMII publicly it's a public thing. And then he also 330 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.360 chooses not to execute Abner, who had you know, gone 331 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:25.200 against him on this moment. And both of those were 332 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:30.320 public demonstrations of okay, this problem is done right, because 333 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:33.159 David understands the cycle of war revenge, back and forth, 334 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.960 back and forth, you know, tip for tach kind of fighting. 335 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:39.039 And so if David punished everybody publicly, right, then then 336 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.320 all of the other enemies to think, well, he's coming 337 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:43.240 for me too, so let's go ahead and plot against him, 338 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:47.039 and then well rite. But instead this very magnanimous kind 339 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:50.000 thing saying listen, it's done. It's very similar to after 340 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:53.039 the US Civil the Civil War in America, Johnson and 341 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:56.360 Grant uh chose not to hunt down the generals of 342 00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:59.679 the Confederacy. Instead say hey, we're Americans. We have to 343 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:01.679 find a way for peace now. 344 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:02.240 Right. 345 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:04.519 That doesn't mean they agreed with each other. It meant 346 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:07.759 if we just keep killing each other, it's never going 347 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:11.759 to stop. We saw that in modern times in Rwanda 348 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:14.799 when the Hutus and the Tutsis were killing each other, right, 349 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:18.799 this horrible genocide. When it was all done, president Kagami, 350 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:21.879 who has his own faults, but President Kagami came in 351 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:25.320 and said, hey, there's no more revenge, right. So there 352 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:27.080 are people who need to go to prison, and they 353 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:29.639 put a few people in prison for a while, a 354 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:31.720 lot of people in prison for a while. But the 355 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.000 villages took care of the people that were in the prisons. 356 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:37.399 And then when they were done, they would have a celebration. 357 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.159 You paid your price, you can come back into society, right, 358 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:44.039 And there would always be the villages would have big 359 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:47.799 celebrations to say, there's honor in paying the price for 360 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:50.000 the wrong thing you did, but we believe in you. 361 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:52.679 You're welcome back into the village again. And what that 362 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.840 does now is there's this phrase in Rwanda, there's no 363 00:16:55.919 --> 00:17:00.480 more Hutus or Tutsis, only Rwandan's right. I think that's 364 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:03.879 what David was doing by by passing on his right 365 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.119 for revenge. With Shimi I passing on his right for 366 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.519 revenge against Abner was saying, there's no more absoloms than David's. 367 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.680 It's just Israelites, right, right, That's what he did. Yeah, 368 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:16.319 So it's wisdom in that, a lot of wisdom. 369 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:16.599 Yeah. 370 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:19.720 But now he's like, hey, I'm about to breathe my last. 371 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:23.880 But you know what to do again? Another movie quote, 372 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:26.559 do you ever see the Wrath of Khan? Yes, when 373 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.519 he goes at my last breath, I stab it fee right, 374 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:36.759 that's Coln with the melted face. Uh, you know, and 375 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:40.359 then Spock staves the day anyway, the uh yeah, And 376 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:44.920 imagine this that David was trying very hard at that 377 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:48.240 time to set a different example than Saul, right right, 378 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:51.359 So David, you know, Saul has to apologize publicly for 379 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:53.839 his uh you know behavior in front of all his 380 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:57.200 kingdom and soldiers, for being so ruthless and hunting down David. 381 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:59.920 And then David stands up and says, hey, you know, 382 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:02.000 I'm not going to raise my hand against the king's annointed. 383 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:06.720 So David has a habit of wanting to uh you know, 384 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:09.759 and and and you know, and especially when it comes 385 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:12.440 to power, he's wanting to send the message that he's 386 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:15.680 not that type of king, which is great, but again, 387 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:18.480 it is very common. We have to understand this too. 388 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.119 As blood thirsty as this is, it is also very 389 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:24.839 common for a new king to come in and then 390 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:31.000 to uh, you know, take action and to you know, right, right, 391 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:34.000 some wrongdoings once they're in power, right, I mean think 392 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.240 about it that she even said, uh, hey, if you 393 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:39.960 don't take care of this right now, uh, Solomon and 394 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:43.319 myself will be treated his enemies as soon as he is, right, 395 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:47.039 and that would be very very normal, right, And it's 396 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:51.319 the reason why what's what's the guy's name, ab, the 397 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:53.720 one who pulled off the coup before Solomon was king, 398 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:58.079 I've been a jeb whatever his name is, nig there's 399 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:03.079 there's an uh. It's the reason why too, everybody has 400 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:06.200 as banquet table ran yeah, right, because it would have 401 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:11.039