Today’s passage: 1 Chronicles 14:1-17
Helpful thoughts:
- Deuteronomy 17:14-17 has some laws for the future kings of Israel that shed light on what happens in today’s reading.
- Unlike the Philistines, who took the Ark of God back to their own cities after their victories over Israel, David and his men burned the idols of the defeated enemy.
- David received specific instruction from the Lord in verses 14-15, not just what to do, but how to do it, and David obeyed, and Israel won. (Contrast this with the tragedy of Uzzah and the Ark from chapter 13)
- God is graciously helping David grow.
Questions to consider:
- How do the laws concerning kings in Israel match up (Or not…) with what we read in the first 3 verses of today’s chapter?
- What do you notice about verse 11 in chapter 14, and verse 11 in chapter 13? What has the Lord done in both chapters? For whom?
- David loved the Lord, and he still needed to grow. How is God’s grace responsible for both of these truths and their culmination? How are God’s unconditional love, grace, and faithfulness put on display in the life of all His saints?