What we see in this chapter is a king who is on the up. This is a king who is rising in power. The key word in the chapter is the word ‘defeated’.v1: David defeated the Philistinesv2: And he defeated MoabV3: David also defeated HadadezerV5: David struck down – which is the same word in Hebrew – David struck down, […]

If we knew what was going to happen in the future, it would affect what we do here and now. There are always people trying to work out what’s going to happen next. But our problem in many areas of life is that we don’t know where life is going, so we just have to guess. But there are some […]

The focus on a king of Israel who is also described as the Son of God is preparing the ground for the coming of Jesus Christ, the true seed of Abraham in whom all the nations of the earth will be blessed. Just in case we still think this covenant with David is irrelevant to the New Testament, the Apostle […]