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2 Samuel 4
2 Samuels 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9, 10,
11, 12,
13, 14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19, 20,
21, 22,
23, 24
2 Samuel 4:1 And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands
were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
2 And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one
was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite,
of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:
3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.
4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five
years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his
nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee,
that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about
the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have
fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his
brother escaped.
7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and
they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them
away through the plain all night.
8 And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the
king, Behold the head of Ish–bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought
thy life; and the Lord hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of
his seed.
9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the
Beerothite, and said unto them, As the Lord liveth, who hath redeemed my soul
out of all adversity,
10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good
tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would
have given him a reward for his tidings:
11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house
upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take
you away from the earth?
12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their
hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took
the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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