“The men of Israel answered the men of Y’hudah, ‘We have ten shares in the king; also, we have more right in David than you. So why did you despise us? Weren’t we the first to suggest bringing our king back?” But the men of Y’hudah spoke more vehemently than the men of Israel.”-2 Samuel […]

“The king crossed over to Gilgal, and Khimham crossed with him. All the people of Y’hudah brought the king across, as did half the people of Israel.”-2 Samuel 19:41 As David ferried across the Jordan to Gilgal, we’re told “all” the people of Judah, and “half” the population of Israel crossed with him. Alrighty, so […]

“Barzillai the Gil‘adi had come down from Roglim and passed on to the Yarden with the king to bring him across the Yarden.  Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years old; he had provided for the king’s needs when he was staying at Machanayim; for he was a wealthy man.”-2 Samuel 19:32-33 Moving on, […]

There’s something I need to remind you of about King David. Yes, he foreshadows the coming Messiah. But he is not the Messiah. We see this in his sins…most famously the Bathsheba affair. And now his flaws show up once again in how he handled Tziva’s treachery against Mephibosheth. Instead of admitting his wrong in […]

We are continuing our discussion about how Tziva and Mephibosheth point to Messiah’s future relationship with His own people, the Jews, and the eventual grafting in of the Gentile church. If you need to catch up, click HERE and HERE to read the previous articles on the topic. Alrighty, so when we last left off, […]