God lives mouth to hand
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father.
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father.
Thank you Mark Dever, in The Message of the Old Testament for this that I’ve never seen before:
I'm just finishing reading through 2 Samuel. Joab and Abishai, the two (surviving) sons of Zeruiah, remind me of the role that James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, sometimes play in the gospels.
The assassination of Amasa in chapter 21 seems as much to do with Joab's determination to continue in charge of the army as it is about Amasa's slowness to muster Judah. In short, he wants to be David's right-hand man. Compare Mark 10:35-45. Joab's hastiness to slay Absalom is deemed too hasty by David, cf. Luke 9:54-55.
I'm just trying to tap consciously into something I had noticed instinctively. The question is: I'm I noticing something that isn't objectively there? Even if it is a valid observation, so what?
Enough subconscious blogging for one morning! Bye all