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Misc. Lesson Nuggets
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Israel's first King
Who is Saul?
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David's family was from this tribe
What is the tribe of Judah?
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Was chosen by the Lord as King and described as "a man after God's heart."
Who is David?
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The only way to stop the destructive cycle of sin

What is repent and confess our sins?

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Amnon fell in love with this sister
Who is Tamar? 13 In the course of time, Amnon son of David fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Absalom son of David. 2 Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill. She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.
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Prior to King Saul, Israel had been led for hundreds of years by these
What are Judges?
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King David's nephew and the leader of his army
Who is Joab?
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In 2 Samuel 11, David coveted this woman.
Who is Bathsheba? 2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
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David tries to cover up his sin with Bathsheba in this way
What is he tries to get him drunk and encourages him to sleep with Bathsheba? 6 So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house. 10 David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?” 11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents,[a] and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!” 12 Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.
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Saul's grandson, honored by David because of his promise to Jonathan
Who is Mephibosheth? 6 When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor. David said, “Mephibosheth!” “At your service,” he replied. 7 “Don’t be afraid,” David said to him, “for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”
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Israel's last judge and one of God's great prophets
Who is Samuel? Samuel warned the Israelites that having a king was a bad idea and that a king would harm them with taxes and exploitation for his own gain.
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Pursued Abner in battle with great vigor although it eventually cost him his life
Who is Asahel? Asahel was Joab's brother
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Bathsheba's husband and a loyal soldier of David. Considered one of David's top soldiers.
What is Uriah the Hittite?
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The chapter in 2 Samuel in which God makes a covenant with David.

What is 2 Samuel 7

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His name means "son of peace"

Who is Absalom

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After Saul died in battle, this son, his sole survivor, felt he had a claim to the throne by birthright
Who is Ishbosheth?
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To try and avoid all out war, Abner suggested a combat of champions with 12 men of Ishbosheth vs 12 men of David. This group won that contest.
Who are David's men? 12 Abner son of Ner, together with the men of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, left Mahanaim and went to Gibeon. 13 Joab son of Zeruiah and David’s men went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon. One group sat down on one side of the pool and one group on the other side. 14 Then Abner said to Joab, “Let’s have some of the young men get up and fight hand to hand in front of us.” “All right, let them do it,” Joab said. 15 So they stood up and were counted off—twelve men for Benjamin and Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, and twelve for David. 16 Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his dagger into his opponent’s side, and they fell down together. So that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.[a] 17 The battle that day was very fierce, and Abner and the Israelites were defeated by David’s men.
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David instructed this trusted soldier to kill Uriah by placing him on the front lines of battle.
Who is Joab? 14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”
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The Lord sent this person in 2 Samuel 12 to rebuke David
Who is Nathan? 12 The Lord sent Nathan to David.
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David wrote this Psalm shortly after being confronted by Nathan about his sin with Bathsheba
What is Psalm 51
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The leader of King Saul's Army
Who is Abner? Abner was King Saul's cousin and remained loyal to him even though David had been anointed by God as the next king.
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This person eventually murdered Abner to avenge the death of Asahel
Who is Joab? 30 (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)
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While David is shirking his responsibility as King, his army is away fighting these people.
Who are the Ammonites? 11 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
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Nathan uses this proverb to describe David's sins to him
What is the rich man and his sheep? 12 The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, 3 but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him. 4 “Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.” 5 David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die! 6 He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.” 7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. 9 Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’ 11 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. 12 You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’” 13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”
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A solemn bond, sovereignly administered, between two or more persons with attendant blessings and cursings.

What is a covenant?