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<div2 id="iiSam.i" n="i" next="iiSam.ii" prev="iiSam" progress="39.35%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="iiSam.i-p0.1">Second Samuel</h2>
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<hr/>
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<pb id="iiSam.i-Page_446" n="446"/>
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<div class="Center" id="iiSam.i-p0.3">
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<p id="iiSam.i-p1"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="iiSam.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="iiSam.i-p1.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="iiSam.i-p1.3">OF THE SECOND BOOK OF</h5>
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<h2 id="iiSam.i-p1.4">S A M U E L.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="iiSam.i-p2">This book is the history of the reign of
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king David. We had in the foregoing book an account of his
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designation to the government, and his struggles with Saul, which
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ended at length in the death of his persecutor. This book begins
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with his accession to the throne, and is entirely taken up with the
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affairs of the government during the forty years he reigned, and
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therefore is entitled by the LXX. <i>The Third Book of the
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Kings.</i> It gives us an account of David's triumphs and his
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troubles. I. His triumphs over the house of Saul (<scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.1" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.1.1-2Sam.4.12" parsed="|2Sam|1|1|4|12" passage="2Sa 1:1-4:12"><i>ch.</i> i.-iv.</scripRef>), over the
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Jebusites and Philistines (<scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.5.1-2Sam.5.25" parsed="|2Sam|5|1|5|25" passage="2Sa 5:1-25"><i>ch.</i> v.</scripRef>), at the bringing up of the
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ark (<scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.3" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.6.1-2Sam.7.29" parsed="|2Sam|6|1|7|29" passage="2Sa 6:1-7:29"><i>ch.</i> vi. and
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vii.</scripRef>), over the neighbouring nations that opposed him
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(<scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.4" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.8.1-2Sam.10.19" parsed="|2Sam|8|1|10|19" passage="2Sa 8:1-10:19"><i>ch.</i> viii.-x.</scripRef>);
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and so far the history is agreeable to what we might expect from
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David's character and the choice made of him. But his cloud has a
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dark side. II. We have his troubles, the causes of them, his sin in
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the matter of Uriah (<scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.5" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.11.1-2Sam.12.31" parsed="|2Sam|11|1|12|31" passage="2Sa 11:1-12:31"><i>ch.</i>
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xi. and xii.</scripRef>), the troubles themselves from the sin of
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Amnon (<scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.6" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.13.1-2Sam.13.39" parsed="|2Sam|13|1|13|39" passage="2Sa 13:1-39"><i>ch.</i>
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xiii.</scripRef>), the rebellion of Absalom (<scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.7" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.14.1-2Sam.14.43" parsed="|2Sam|14|1|14|43" passage="2Sa 14:1-43"><i>ch.</i> xiv.-xix.</scripRef>) and of Sheba
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(<scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.8" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.20.1-2Sam.20.26" parsed="|2Sam|20|1|20|26" passage="2Sa 20:1-26"><i>ch.</i> xx.</scripRef>), and
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the plague in Israel for his numbering the people (<scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.9" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.24.1-2Sam.24.25" parsed="|2Sam|24|1|24|25" passage="2Sa 24:1-25"><i>ch.</i> xxiv.</scripRef>), besides the
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famine of the Gibeonites, <scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.10" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.21.1-2Sam.21.22" parsed="|2Sam|21|1|21|22" passage="2Sa 21:1-22"><i>ch.</i> xxi</scripRef>. His son we have (<scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.11" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.22.1-2Sam.22.51" parsed="|2Sam|22|1|22|51" passage="2Sa 22:1-51"><i>ch.</i> xxii.</scripRef>), and his words
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and worthies, <scripRef id="iiSam.i-p2.12" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.23.1-2Sam.23.39" parsed="|2Sam|23|1|23|39" passage="2Sa 23:1-39"><i>ch.</i>
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xxiii</scripRef>. Many things in his history are very instructive;
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but for the hero who is the subject of it, though in many instances
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he appears here very great, and very good, and very much the
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favourite of heaven, yet it must be confessed that his honour
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shines brighter in his Psalms than in his Annals.</p>
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</div2>
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