1 Samuel 5-7
These are the steps David took, which allowed him to reign for forty years as Israel’s greatest king:
David is anointed king. After Ish-Bosheth, Saul’s son, had been murdered, the leaders of all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and asked him to be their king. So David was anointed king for the third time; the first was when Samuel anointed him as a boy, the second was when his tribe, the tribe of Judah, anointed him. Here, at last, all Israel, all 12 tribes, anoint him king!
David conquers Jerusalem. It’s not that Hebron was a bad place, but that Jerusalem was a neutral place, not belonging to any of the tribes. David conquered the arrogant Jebusites who lived there, took Jerusalem, and called it “the city of David.”
David defeats the Philistines. In his first test, he defeats Israel’s arch enemies, the Philistines, the same ones who were once represented by the mighty Goliath. David does to them what he did to him.
David brings the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem. It was essential that David not just be the military and political leader of Israel, but their religious leader as well. After an aborted attempt to bring the Ark into the city (They had placed it on a cart, rather than carrying it, as the law instructed, and a man died), they finally brought in the Ark and placed it inside a makeshift tent (the old tabernacle had long been separated from the Ark). David danced before the Lord with all his might along the way.
David receives a renewal of the Covenant from the Lord. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had received the Covenant (promise) from the Lord. God led Moses and Joshua to renew the Covenant in their day. Here, God sends David’s trusted counselor, Nathan, with a fresh formation of the Covenant designating David’s house and his offspring’s kingdom will “endure forever” (2 Samuel 7:16). From our vantage, we can see Christ’s Kingdom promised!
Tomorrow, David continues to prove himself worthy of God’s anointing!
Pastor Gary
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