Day 139: Reparation to the Gibeonites (2025)
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What passages are covered on Day 139?
Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 139. We are reading from 2 Samuel 21, 1 Chronicles 26. We're praying Psalm 40. As always, the translation of the Bible that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. And I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. And if you have not yet subscribed to this podcast, just click over to subscribe and subscribe. That would be phenomenal and amazing. And you would be phenomenal and amazing. If you don't, you're probably still phenomenal.
and amazing. As I said, today's day 139. We're reading 2 Samuel chapter 21, 1 Chronicles 26, and we are praying Psalm 40. The second book of Samuel chapter 21, David avenges the Gibeonites. Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the Lord, and the Lord said, There is blood guilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death. So the king called the Gibeonites. Now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel, but the remnants of the Amorites. Although the sons of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to slay them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah." And David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you, and how shall I make expiation that you may bless the heritage of the Lord? The Gibeonites said to him, It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house, neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel. And he said, What do you say that I shall do for you? They said to the king,
How did David seek to make amends with the Gibeonites?
the man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel, let seven of his sons be given to us, that we may hang them up before the Lord at Gibeon on the mountain of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them. But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord, which was between them, between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul. the king took the two sons of rizpah the daughter of aya whom she bore to saul armoni and mephibosheth and the five sons of merab the daughter of saul whom she bore to adriel the son of barzillai the meholathite and he gave them into the hands of the gibeonites and they hanged them on the mountain before the lord and the seven of them perished together.
What sacrifices did David make to restore the Gibeonites' honor?
They were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest. Then Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens, and she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day or the beasts of the field by night. When David was told what Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done, David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Bet-Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day when the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.
And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan, and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged. And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that, God heeded supplications for the land.
What is the significance of Rizpah's actions?
Wars with the Philistines The Philistines had war again with Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary. And Ishbi Benab, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, fought to kill David.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of the Bible in a Year podcast?
0:04–0:13
2
What passages are covered on Day 139?
0:13–1:57
3
How did David seek to make amends with the Gibeonites?
1:57–2:41
4
What sacrifices did David make to restore the Gibeonites' honor?
2:41–3:35
5
What is the significance of Rizpah's actions?
3:35–4:36
6
What battles did David face against the Philistines?
4:36–9:18
7
What roles do the gatekeepers play in the Temple?
9:18–17:28
8
What themes does Psalm 40 address?
17:28–21:54