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The rough beginning of David becoming King - 2 Samuel 2
Jeff Evans
Jeff Evans
Sunday, July 13, 2025
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1. One of the best lessons from David is to ask God for direction.
Psalms 25:4 (NLT)
Show me the right path, O LORD; point out the road for me to follow.
2 Samuel 2:1-3 (NLT)
After this, David asked the LORD, “Should I move back to one of the towns of
Judah?” “Yes,” the LORD replied. Then David asked, “Which town should I go
to?” “To Hebron,” the LORD answered.
2 David’s two wives were Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal
from Carmel. So David and his wives 3 and his men and their families all moved
to Judah, and they settled in the villages near Hebron.
2. Even though Saul was David’s enemy, David honored Saul’s heroes.
2 Samuel 2:4-6 NLT
Then the men of Judah came to David and anointed him king over the people of
Judah. When David heard that the men of Jabesh-gilead had buried Saul, 5 he
sent them this message: “May the LORD bless you for being so loyal to your
master Saul and giving him a decent burial. 6 May the LORD be loyal to you in
return and reward you with his unfailing love! And I, too, will reward you for what
you have done.
1 Samuel 31:8-13 (NLT)
The next day, when the Philistines went out to strip the dead, they found the
bodies of Saul and his three sons on Mount Gilboa. 9 So they cut off Saul’s head
and stripped off his armor. Then they proclaimed the good news of Saul’s death
in their pagan temple and to the people throughout the land of Philistia. 10 They
placed his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths, and they fastened his body to
the wall of the city of Beth-shan.
11 But when the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to
Saul, 12 all their mighty warriors traveled through the night to Beth-shan and took
the bodies of Saul and his sons down from the wall. They brought them to
Jabesh, where they burned the bodies. 13 Then they took their bones and buried
them beneath the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.
3. Just like Jesus, David is rejected as King in Israel.
2 Samuel 2:7-11 NLT

Now that Saul is dead, I ask you to be my strong and loyal subjects like the
people of Judah, who have anointed me as their new king.”
8 But Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, had already gone to
Mahanaim with Saul’s son Ishbosheth. 9 There he proclaimed Ishbosheth king
over Gilead, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, the land of the Ashurites, and all the
rest of Israel.
10 Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he became king, and he
ruled from Mahanaim for two years. Meanwhile, the people of Judah remained
loyal to David. 11 David made Hebron his capital, and he ruled as king of Judah
for seven and a half years.
John 15:18-21 (NLT)
“If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. 19 The world would love
you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the
world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you. 20 Do you remember
what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted
me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would
listen to you. 21 They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected
the one who sent me.
4. When David didn’t seek the Lord, he lived in enemy territory called Ziklag,
which means crooked or winding. When David did seek the Lord, he lived in
Hebron, which means community and fellowship.
Psalms 23:1-3 (NLT)
The LORD is my shepherd; I have all that I need. 2 He lets me rest in green
meadows; he leads me beside peaceful streams. 3 He renews my strength. He
guides me along right paths, bringing honor to his name.
2 Samuel 2:12-23 NLT
One day Abner led Ishbosheth’s troops from Mahanaim to Gibeon. 13 About the
same time, Joab son of Zeruiah led David’s troops out and met them at the pool
of Gibeon. The two groups sat down there, facing each other from opposite sides
of the pool.
14 Then Abner suggested to Joab, “Let’s have a few of our warriors fight hand to
hand here in front of us.”
“All right,” Joab agreed. 15 So twelve men were chosen to fight from each
side—twelve men of Benjamin representing Ishbosheth son of Saul, and twelve
representing David. 16 Each one grabbed his opponent by the hair and thrust his
sword into the other’s side so that all of them died. So this place at Gibeon has
been known ever since as the Field of Swords.