Transcript for Day 123: The Death of Ish-bosheth (2022)

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension, using the great adventure Bible timeline will read all the way from Genesis to Revelation. Discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today, it is day 123, it is day 1, 2, 3. We are reading from 2 Samuel chapter 4, we're also reading 2 chapters out of 1st Chronicles. chapters five and six. We're also praying Psalm 26 as always. I am reading from the revised standard version second Catholic edition and using the great adventure Bible from ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe. Then you would be subscribed. And when everyone does that, I will no longer say that what you can think at the beginning of every single day. But 123 days, my goodness, you guys. I'm so proud of you. Keep going all the way also. Chapter 4 is relatively short in second Samuel. And there are some names. Not as many names as in chapters 5 and 6 of first Chronicles, but the name is a Shibashath, right? Or Ishpashath. I've kind of fully committed to Ishpashath. And so I apologize if you're annoyed, you look reading your Bible and it's said you say, it says Ishpashath. And I would say you're probably right, but I committed to a shiver shot. And so it's also fun to say just try it. Try it at home, try it in your car as you're driving. It is a gift to be able to be here. Again, second sandwich chapter four, first chronicles chapter five and six and Psalm 26. 2. Chapter 4. The Shibasheth is assassinated. When the Shibasheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner had died in Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed. Now, Saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands. The name of the one was Ba'ana, and the name of the other Rakhaba. Son's of Ramon, a man of Benjamin from Beiroth, for Beiroth also is reckoned to Benjamin. The Beerothites fled to get tame and have been sojourners there to this day. Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreal and his nurse took him up and fled and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mathibasheth. Now, the sons of Ramon, the Beirothite, Rakhab and Bahnah set out, and I bought the heat of the day they came to the house of a Shibashath, as he was taking his new day rest. And behold, the doorkeeper of the house had been cleaning wheat, but she grew drowsy and slept, so Rakhab and Bahnah his brother slipped in. When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bed chamber, they struck him, and slew him, and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Araba all night, and brought the head of the Shibasheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, here is the head of the Shibasheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The Lord has avenged my Lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring. but David answered Rakhab and Ba'ana his brother, the sons of Ramon, the Beerothite, as the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity when one told me behold Saul is dead and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and slew him at Siklegg, which was the reward I gave him for his news. how much more when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth. And David commanded his young men and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of a Shibashath and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron. Burst Chronicles chapter 5. Descendants of Rubin. The sons of Rubin, the firstborn of Israel, for he was the firstborn, but because he polluted his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright. Though Judah became strong among his brothers, and a prince was from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph. The sons of Rubin, the firstborn of Israel, Hanok, Paloo, Hezran, and Karmee. The sons of Joel, Shamaya, his son, Gog, his son, Shamayai, his son, Micah, his son, Riyaya, his son, Baal, his son, the era, his son, whom Tilgoth, Pilnacer, King of Assyria, carried away into exile, He was a chieftain of the Rubinites, and his kinsmen by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, the chief, G.I.L. and Izekariah, and Bila, the son of Azaz, son of Shima, son of Joel, who dwelt in Erawar, as far as Nibbo and Baal Mehan. He also dwelt to the east as far as the entrance of the desert, this side of the refraities, because their cattle had multiplied in the land of Gilead. And in the days of Saul, they made war on the Hegrites, who fell by their hand, and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead. Descendants of Gadd. The sons of Gadd dwelt over against them in the land of Pashan, as far as Celica. Joel the chief, Shafam II, Janai, and Shafat of Pashan. And their kidsmen according to their father's houses, Michael, Mushulam, Shiba, Jari, Jikan. Xia, and Iber, seven. These were the sons of Abhihel, the son of Huri, Son of Jeroa, Son of Gilead, Son of Michael, Son of Jishii, Son of Jado, Son of Buz, Ahai, the son of Abdel, Son of Gunee, was the chief in their father's houses, and they dwelt in Gilead, in Beshan, and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon to their limits. All of these were enrolled by genealogies in the days of Jotham, King of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, King of Israel. The Rubenites, the Gathites, and the half tribe of Manassa, had valiant men who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, expert in war, 44,760, ready for service. They made war upon the Hagrites, Jatour, Nafish, and No Deb. And when they received help against them, the Hegrites and all who were with them were given into their hands for they cried to God in battle and he granted their entry to because they trusted him. They carried off their livestock, 50,000 of their camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys, and 100,000 men alive. For many fell slain because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their place until the exile. The half tribe of Manasa. The members of the half tribe of Manasa, dwelt in the land, they were very numerous from Bashaan to Baal Hermone, Sinir and Mount Hermone. These were the heads of their father's houses, Efer, Ishi, Eliel, Azrael, Jeremiah, Hodavaya, and Jadi El. Mighty warriors, famous men heads of their father's houses. but they transgressed against the God of their fathers and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land whom God had destroyed before them. So the God of Israel stirred up the Spirit of Pool, King of Assyria, the Spirit of Tilgoth, Pinlesser, King of Assyria, and he carried them away, namely the Rubinites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manassa, and brought them to Hala, Habor, Hara, and the river goes on to this day. Chapter 6. Descendants of Levi. The sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Morari. The sons of Kohath, Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uziel. The children of Amran, Aran, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aran, Nidab, Abihu, Eliasar, and Ithamar. Eliasar was the father of Finias, Finias of Abashua, Abashua of Bukhi, Bukhi of Uzi, Uzi of Zerahia, Zerahia of Maryalth, Maryalth of Amaraya, Amaraya of Ahutub, Ayutub of Zadok, Zadok of Ahima's, Ahima's of Azaraya, Azaraya of Johanan. And Johanan of Azaraya, it was he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem. As a royal was the father of Amaraya, Amaraya of Ahitub, Ahitub of Zedok, Zedok of Shulong, Shalom of Hildkaya, Hildkaya of Azaraya, Azaraya of Saraya, Saraya of Jajhosedak. And Jehozedeck went into exile when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. The sons of Levi, Gursham, Kohath and Morari, and these are the names of the sons of Gursham, Libni and Shimei. The sons of Kohath, Amram, Ishar, Hebron, and Uziel. The sons of Morari, Mali and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites, according to their fathers, of Gursham, Libni his son, Jayath his son, Zimah his son, Joah his son, Ido his son, Zirah his son, Jayath Arai his son, the sons of Kohath, Aminadab his son, Korah his son, Asir his son, Al-Qanah his son, Abiesaf his son, Asir his son, Tahath his son, Oriel his son, Uzaya his son, Shawal his son. The sons of Al-Qanah, Amasai, and Ahimoth. Al-Qanah his son, Sofai his son, Nihath his son, El-Yab his son, Jeroham his son, Al-Qanah his son. The sons of Samuel, Joel his firstborn, the second, Abhazha. The sons of Marari, Mali, Libni, his son, Shamayai, his son, Uzah, his son, Shamayai, his son, Hegya, his son, and Asya, his son. Musicians appointed by David. These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of Song in the House of the Lord after the Ark rested there. They ministered with Song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon had built the House of the Lord in Jerusalem and they performed their service in due order. These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the coethites, he men, the singer, the son of Joel, son of Samuel, son of El Cana, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Tora, son of Zuf, son of El Cana, son of Mayhath, son of Amasai. Son of Al-Qanah, Son of Joel, Son of Azariah, Son of Zephanaya, Son of Tath, Son of Asir, Son of Abiasath, Son of Korah, Son of Ishar, Son of Kohath, Son of Levi, Son of Israel, And his brother Asaf, who stood on his right hand, namely Asaf, Son of Barakayah, Son of Shimya, Son of Michael, Son of Baasia, Son of Malkijah, Son of Effni, Son of Zehra, Son of Adaya, Sun of Ethan, Sun of Zima, Sun of Shimiai, Sun of J.H. Sun of Gursham, Sun of Levi. On the left hand where their brethren, the Sun of Morari, Ethan, the Sun of Kishi, Sun of Hashibaya, Sun of Amazaya. Son of Hilkaya, Son of Amzee, Son of Bonnie, Son of Schemer, Son of Molly, Son of Mushi, Son of Morari, Son of Levi. And their brethren, the Levites, were appointed for all the service of the Tabernacle of the House of God. But Aaron and his sons made offerings upon the altar of burnt offering, and upon the altar of incense for all the work of the most holy place, and to make a torment for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. These are the sons of Aaron. Elias are his son, Finias his son, Abishua his son, Buki his son, Uzi his son. Zirahaya, his son, Morayoth, his son, and Morayoth, his son, Ahitub, his son, Zedok, his son, Ahima az, his son. Settlements of the Levites. These are the dwelling places, according to their settlements within their borders, to the sons of Aaron of the families of the Coethites, for theirs was the lot, to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its surrounding pasture lands. but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the Son of Jephuna. To the sons of Aaron, they gave the cities a refuge. Hebron, Libna, with its pastor lands, Jeteer, Eshtemoa, with its pastor lands, Helin, with its pastor lands, Debeer, with its pastor lands, Ashane, with its pastor lands, and Betchamesh, with its pastor lands. And from the tribes of Benjamin, Giba, with its pastor lands, LMF, with its pastor lands, and anathoth with its pastor lands. All their cities throughout their families were 13. To the rest of the coethites were given by a lot out of the family of the tribe, out of the half tribe, the half of Manasa, 10 cities. To the Grishamites, according to their families, were a lot at 13 cities, out of the tribes of Isakhar, Asher, Naththali, and Manasa in Bashan. to the mirror rights, according to their families where a lot at 12 cities out of the tribes of Rubin, Gad, and Zebulin. So the sons of Israel gave the Levites, the cities with their pasture lands, they also gave them by a lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name. And some of the families of the sons of Kowath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim. They were given the cities of Refuge. Check him with its pastor lands in the hill country of Ephraim. Giza with its pastor lands. Jukme Am with its pastor lands. Bet Huron with its pastor lands. Ayjulon with its pastor lands. God Ramon with its pastor lands. And out of the half tribe of Manasa, anurah with its pastor lands, Billy Am with its pastor lands, for the rest of the families of the co-ethites. To the Gershamites were given out of the half tribe of Manasa, Golan in Bashaan with its pastor lands, and asteroth with its pastor lands. And out of the tribe of Isakar, Gadesh with its pastor lands, Debaroth with its pastor lands, Ramoth with its pastor lands, and Anem with its pastor lands. Out of the tribe of Asher, Mashaal with its pastor lands, Abdan with its pastor lands, Hukok with its pastor lands, and Rehab with its pastor lands. and out of the tribe of NAFTALE, Kadesh in Galilee with its pastor lands. Haman with its pastor lands, Korea fame with its pastor lands. To the rest of the mirror rights were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulin, Rumu'no with its pastor lands, Tabor with its pastor lands, and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Rubin, Beezer in the step with its pastor lands, Jaza with its pastor lands, Kedomoth with its pastor lands, and Mifaoth with its pastor lands. And out of the tribe of Gad, Ray Moth and Gilead with its pastor lands, May Hanim with its pastor lands, Hechban with its pastor lands, and Jayzer with its pastor lands. Psalm 26, plea for justice and declaration of righteousness, a Psalm of David. Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. Prove me, O God, and try me. Test my heart and my mind for your mercy is before my eyes, and I walk in faithfulness to you. I do not sit with false men, nor do I consort with dissemblers. I hate the company of evil doors, and I will not sit with the wicked. I wash my hands in innocence and go about your altar O Lord singing aloud a song of thanksgiving and telling all your wondrous deeds. O Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells. Sweep me not away with sinners, nor my life with blood thirsty men, men in whose hands are evil devices and whose right hands are full of brides. But as for me, I walk in my integrity redeem me and have mercy on me. My foot stands on level ground. In the great congregation, I will bless the Lord. Father and have we give you praise and glory. Thank you so much for your word. We thank you for just the fact that you've worked in history and you continue to work in history. Lord God, you've worked with every one of these people and every one of these families and tribes just like you work with us. Every one of us listening to your word being proclaimed all of our families strong and weak of our families whole and broken all of our families united and families divided. Lord God, you are part of history, you're the God of history, and you're the God of eternity, and you're the God of our history, and you lead us in call us into eternity. And so we give you thanks, we give you praise, and please receive our praise today on this day, this day, 123 days of listening to your word, of being shaped by your word. We thank you in praise you, in Jesus' name, we pray. Amen, and the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen, so two quick things I want to highlight. One is from the story of David Wright and second Samuel chapter four, because this is going to be pretty important for us to be attentive to why. Well, not only because we can pronounce Ishibasheth both the way I pronounce it and Ishibasheth, but because of the fact that here is David who wants to be an honorable man. Now, I mentioned this before when we get deeper into Chronicles, we're going to see David. We're going to see a kind of Maybe I don't want to say an edited David, but we're going to just focus on the positive, the strengths, the character not flaws, but the character strengths of David in chronicles. Now Samuel is going to reveal David's woundedness. His flaws, his his realness. not to say that his strengths aren't his real thing, but what I'm trying to say is in chapter 4 of 2 Samuel, we see how consistent David is. We see his character through and through that David from the very beginning has been someone who doesn't necessarily take pleasure in violence, he doesn't take pleasure in punishing those who don't need it to be punished according to him. Now, later on, David, he should have taken more action. He should have done more to punish those who need punishment. But in this moment, David is taking mercy upon Ishbashath or Ishbashath. But I've committed, I said it already. Give it it to Ishbashath. David wants to take mercy on this. His enemy, right? So all not all of Israel, but many in Israel were calling Ishbashath. Ishbashath. Now, now I'm confused. Ishibashat, they were calling him to be the new king. He was going to be the enemy of David. He was the enemy of David. And yet, when Rakhaab and Baana, they go into Ishibashat's home, and as he's sleeping, they murder him in bed. They assassinate him in bed. And they say today that, hey, this is the deal. We just destroyed the last remaining member of the family of King Saul, almost to be continued on that one. Almost the last surviving member. At least the only threat you have to you right now. And David responds by highlighting the fact that listen, that is not how we do things. This is going to be a new kingdom under God. And we are not going to do things. Remember at the end of judges. The everyone did what was right in their own eyes. He was David who was making it absolutely clear that is not going to be this kingdom of Israel. We're not going to be this loose confederation of tribes who kind of take the law into their own hands. We are going to be a united kingdom who are under the law of the Lord. And that's remember way back That Samuel had said that if you're going to be the king, you have to know the law of the Lord if to read the law at day and night. In fact, David's going to go on to in the Psalms. Talk about this. Yeah, Lord, how I love your law. I ponder on it day and night. And here is an example of David living that way because as These two murderers assassins, Rehab and Da Ana come to him. He does not reward them. What I guess he does, he rewards their evil deed by killing them, by taking out justice upon them and establishing to all the people. This is not how we do things in the kingdom. That might have been how we did things when there was the loose confederation and their judges and everyone did was right in their own eyes, but not anymore. Okay, moving on to first chronicles. I think I mentioned this before. But Chronicles is going to be not only, as I said, a following, let's follow David. And let's see, here's how David has lived. It's how David prefigures the coming Messiah. He, the coming, anointed one, the coming Christ. But also, not only hope for the re-establishment of the kingdom, in a re-establishment of the royal throne, but also the re-establishment of temple worship. When, uh, first and second chronicles were written, it's largely believed that this is after the exile. And so, uh, the people of Israel have suffered an incredible, incredible defeat. They've been exiled, they have the ten tribes, of Israel, we're going to get to that in a little bit. The basically David United's all 12 tribes. Solomon has the United 12 tribes that United Kingdom, but then after Solomon, those 12 tribes divide to 10 tribes in the north, Israel, and two tribes in the south, Judah. That's what they call the 10 in the north are called Israel from then on, and the two tribes in the south, Benjamin, Judah are called Judah. And yet, this chronicles is written not only after that division, but then also after the destruction of the ten tribes in the north, and the exile, and return of the two tribes in the south. And so what the author of Chronicles is doing is saying, there is a line though. There is a line of David, Judah, and there's a line of Levi, the line of the priesthood. So we're going to follow those families in particular, because why? Because they're longing for this reestablishment of the kingdom and longing for reestablishment of temple worship into its full. And so that's what we're going to get that's kind of some of the main gist or main thrust of main desire of the author of Chronicles. We're going to get to that in a couple of days as we get through some more names in the next couple of days. But gosh, what a gift to be able to follow, to be able to recognize that God works in time, God works in history, the god of eternity working in history just blows my mind and I think about that all the time. Like man, God, how in the world are you so humble that you made us in love and you continue to keep us in existence out of love. And you continue to speak to us and guide us and protect us out of love. What a gift. Please pray for each other because they got to the Trinity who's entered into time. Once to enter into each and every one of our lives and so often we need grace. We always need grace. But we need the prayers of each other to help walk in grace. So I am praying for you. Please pray for me. Please pray for each other. My name's Father Mike, I cannot wait to see you tomorrow. God bless.