Author: lowen

Judah responds to the King’s statements, and they conduct him across Jordan. What a procession that must have been! They must have conducted him in style, as befits a royal — but wait, what is Jordan in terms of types? Today we study how David was conducted across Jordan and the types that brings, especially…

Absalom is defeated and dead, and David is the victor. Yet David doesn’t just march back in to Jerusalem uninvited. It’s an interesting story about how David needed the people themselves to call him back, and how he sent to Judah specifically to call him back first.

Have you ever suffered a great loss due to your own error? David is dealing with the awful aftermath of not just the sin with Bathsheba but of the long-standing issue he has with multiple wives. Today we re-explore the root of David’s sin with Bathsheba and now its aftermath with the death of Absalom.

David is about to receive some of the worst news of his life, that Absalom is dead. But, in one of the more interesting passages in Second Samuel, there is a bit of a competition as to who will carry these sad tidings. On this week’s podcast, we explore possible motivations for Ahimaaz to want…

As we go back to Second Samuel 18, we return to the issue at hand. In the apparently very thick and treacherous wood of Ephraim on the eastern side of the Jordan in the land of Gilead, Absalom meets his end.

David is now sidelined in his running from Absalom, and this gives him an opportunity to write psalms. Today we look at Psalm 3, and relate what David says (and sings!) with what happened in Western North Carolina last year, the disaster called Helene.