Today’s passage: 1 Chronicles 11:1-47
Helpful thoughts:
- In today’s reading, David becomes king over all Israel. For more info on this time, including a short time of civil war, see the first five chapters of 2 Samuel.
- Jerusalem did not become the capital city of Israel until David’s reign. Jerusalem came to be known as the City of David.
- Perhaps the most shocking inclusion in the list of David’s Mighty Men is found in verse 41, Uriah the Hittite (2 Samuel 11).
Questions to consider:
- Why might it make sense for a chronicle of Israel’s history, written after a nation’s return from exile, start to be written in greater detail at the beginning of King David’s reign?
- What highlights do you notice where the Lord was acknowledged as being involved? Where all was the Lord truly involved? Who did Israel call the Lord in verse 2? Whose God?
- What was most important for each person in the nation of Israel, that David’s God blessed them as a country, or that the Lord became their God as well?