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13 So David would not move the ark with him out before you to strike the camp of the Philis-
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into the City of David, but took it aside into the tines.” So David did as God commanded him,
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house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. The ark of and they drove back the army of the Philistines
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God remained with the family of Obed-Edom from Gibeon as far as Gezer. Then the fame of
in his house three months. And the LORD David went out into all lands, and the LORD
blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that brought the fear of him upon all nations.
he had. Psalm 78:1–11
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messen-
14 gers to David, and cedar trees, with A Contemplation of Asaph.
masons and carpenters, to build him a house.
2 So David knew that the LORD had established ive ear, O my people, to my law;
him as king over Israel, for his kingdom was G Incline your ears to the
words of my mouth.
highly exalted for the sake of His people Israel. 2
3 Then David took more wives in Jerusalem, I will open my mouth in a parable;
and David begot more sons and daughters. I will utter dark sayings of old,
4 And these are the names of his children
whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab,
Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet,
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6 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Beeliada, 78:2 parable. The word is used here in the
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and Eliphelet. broader sense of a story with moral and spiritu-
8 Now when the Philistines heard that David al applications.dark sayings. Puzzling,ambigu-
had been anointed king over all Israel, all the ous information. The lessons of history are not
easily discerned correctly. For an infallible inter-
Philistines went up to search for David. And pretation of history, there must be a prophet.
David heard of it and went out against them. The specific puzzle in Israel’s history is the
9 Then the Philistines went and made a raid on nation’s rebellious spirit in spite of God’s grace.
the Valley of Rephaim. And David inquired of
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God, saying, “Shall I go up against the
Philistines? Will You deliver them into my 3 Which we have heard and known,
hand?” And our fathers have told us.
The LORD said to him, “Go up, for I will 4
deliver them into your hand.” We will not hide them from their
11 So they went up to Baal Perazim, and Da- children,
vid defeated them there. Then David said, Telling to the generation to come the
praises of the LORD,
“God has broken through my enemies by my And His strength and His wonderful
hand like a breakthrough of water.” Therefore works that He has done.
they called the name of that place Baal
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Perazim. And when they left their gods 5 For He established a testimony in
there, David gave a commandment, and they Jacob,
were burned with fire. And appointed a law in Israel,
13 Then the Philistines once again made a Which He commanded our fathers,
raid on the valley. Therefore David inquired That they should make them known to
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again of God, and God said to him, “You shall their children;
not go up after them; circle around them, and 6 That the generation to come might
come upon them in front of the mulberry trees. know them,
15 And it shall be, when you hear a sound of The children who would be born,
marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, That they may arise and declare them to
then you shall go out to battle, for God has gone their children,
That they may set their hope in God,
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And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments;
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14:8–17 The Philistines desired to ruin David And may not be like their fathers,
before the throne was consolidated.Their plan A stubborn and rebellious generation,
was to kill David, but God gave him victory A generation that did not set its heart
over the Philistines (unlike Saul) and thus aright,
declared both to the Philistines and Israel His And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
support of Israel’s new king.
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The children of Ephraim, being armed
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