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AS KING OF ISRAEL DAVID WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15
2 Samuel 5

1 Chronicles 11:4-9

 

“So David waxed greater and greater:

for the LORD of hosts was with him.”

 

AS KING OF ISRAEL DAVID WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST
 
The Lord would fulfil His promise to Israel through their king. David was on the throne of the nation as a type of Christ. It was through his lineage that the Messiah would subsequently come. Most of the promises would be fulfilled through him. Outside the public limelight, David walked with God. What is not told in the narratives about him is revealed in his psalms. His character is summed up in the words that he was a man after God’s own heart. This is the quality that propelled him to the highest office in the nation.
 
Those elders who came to anoint David king testified that they knew what the Lord had said through Samuel about David. Initially, the house of Saul fought to retain the leadership in the house of Benjamin. However, God had revealed that David was the rightful heir to that throne and he came from Judah. David was king of Israel in his prime and he reigned for a total of forty years: seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. Becoming the king of the whole nation was the destination of his long journey.
 
Hebron was part of the heritage of the house of Judah, but Jerusalem was partly in Judah and partly in Benjamin. It was thus seen as a metropolitan city and could become a home of all tribes of Israel. It was the place that the Lord had spoken of in the time of Moses as a place that He would choose. The name of the city was Jebus and the inhabitants were called Jebusites. David challenged his army to capture the city and offered an incentive to whoever could capture it. Joab led his army and captured the city, thus he was made the chief and captain of David’s army. David built a fort in the city of David, which is Zion.
 
It was King Solomon who later built the temple in this city, thus making it an important Jewish centre of worship. The Lord’s consent for the building of that house of worship confirmed that He had chosen this place as He told through Moses.
 
THOUGHT: God determines even where we live.

PRAYER: Father, let me always yield to Thy will in my decision-making.

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