In this chapter we see what’s most important to David. Last week we saw him enthroned as king. This week we see that one of his big priorities after that is worship. Worship hadn’t been a priority in the days of Saul. In 1st Chronicles 13 David gathers the leaders of the people and says ‘let us bring again the […]

The Philistines, it seems, were happy enough when David was just king over Judah. While there was civil war between Israel and Judah, God’s people were obviously in a weak position. But this united kingdom is a far bigger threat to the Philistines, and so they go on the offensive. But David, in reliance on God, and with the blessing […]

If David’s exaltation has been a long time coming, the capture of Jerusalem has been even longer in the making. Eight hundred years before, God had promised Abraham – at the end of Genesis 15 – ‘To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, […]