Chapter 8 And 9

May 5, 2016

Chapter 8 continues to tell us how God has consolidated David's power through military conquests ! David subdues the Philistines then he defeats Moab. Half of the Moabites he kills and the other half he makes slaves. As his servants, they bring tribute to their master. Then David defeats Hadadezer the King of Zobah, David took 1,700 horsemen and hamstrung all the chariot horses save 100. When the Syrian's came to help King Hadadezer, David killed 22,000 of the Syrian's.. The Syrians then became servant's to David and brought him tribute. David then put garrisons in Syria, Damascus, Moab, and Edom.

God was working through and for David ! He was defeating all the enemies of the Jews, enlarging their territory, and giving the new nation peace. In addition he was providing wealth and servants for the new nation. The spiritual lesson is the same for us as believers today !!!  When we get saved and accept Jesus as our savior, God provides many things for us and takes care of us ! As an example He gives us the Holy Spirit, the Fruit of the Spirit, He forgives our sin, softens our hearts, gives us all at least one spiritual gift. This and so much more are we given by our creator when we get saved !

Chapter 9 is a short chapter but contains so many spiritual truths ! It is about the kindness that David shows to Jonathan's son Mephibosheth. As discussed earlier, it was customary in those days to kill the entire line when one took over a kingdom. David was going out of his way to find any survivor of Saul's family to show them kindness. When they found Mephibosheth, this is what David did for the crippled grandson of King Saul : Let him eat at the Kings table for life, restored all property, money, land, animals that used to belong to the family, and gave him servants to work all the land for him. Wow that is awesome !!!

This chapter continues the same spiritual lesson that we learned in the last. Jesus goes about looking for people to be kind to ( dying on the cross ), then when he finds them and they accept His sacrifices, He give eternal life and allows us to eat from His table for ever !! There are so many gits, and actions that we owe thanks and praise to Jesus for just as Mephibosheth owes to David ! Just as he owes his life and livelihood to King David, so do we owe our life and eternity to King Jesus !! Praise Jesus !!