How is David (and his many wives) like Christ our Bridegroom
Feb 5, 2018 0:34:44 GMT
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Post by mary on Feb 5, 2018 0:34:44 GMT
King David is compared to Christ, and I wanted to do a study of David's numerous wives, wondered about it. I think I see in Abigail one whom believers should emulate. Abigail's name means "father rejoiced," "gives joy," or "father's joy."
Update, some thoughts on David as a type of the believer who loves the Lord but becomes entangled in the flesh. David's son Solomon became even more entangled, and with women who worshipped other gods and led Solomon to permit wrong. Believers are loved by the Lord, but do not honor Him as they once did. From this comes much harm and grief.
Conclusion:
Abigail stands out from the other wives of David. She had sent provisions to David and his men (during conflicts), and she was wise and beautiful and fell on her face before him. I was amazed at her words, prophetic, quoted below, which remind me of the church, and many things about this remind me of the Rapture, the meeting of Christ and His bride. Abigail has turned from her evil lord, who is described as a churl (brutal), whose name means folly, referred to as of Belial. [Nabal had refused David's message, saying, Who is David? ] Nabal is much like Satan in this. When Abigail sees David, she hastens to him and praises him, and speaks words about David's coming glory, and his rule, his appointment over Israel, she asks him to forgive the trespasses of his handmaid, and she asks him to remember her, and speaks of when he comes to rule over Israel.
I Samuel 25
13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff. 14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them. 15 But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: 16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. 17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.....
21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good. 22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, 24 And fell at his feet, and said,... hear the words of thine handmaid. 25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial,... Nabal is his name, and folly is with him.... now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. 27 28.... forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. 29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling. 30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; 31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:...
37 .... [Nabal's] heart died within him and he became as a stone. And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died....
39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said Blessed be the LORD,....
David married Abigail as his third wife and she bore him a son Chileab. Chileab means "perfection of the father."
Chileab was David's second son.
Michal, daughter of Saul, is mentioned in I Samuel 18:27, that she "loved David." Her sister Merab was to be given to David, but had married another, so Michal was given. [Merab means "increase."] Michal mocked David [II Samuel 6:20] as he danced before the Lord as the Ark was brought. Michal had taken another husband, Phaltiel, but David required that she be brought to him [II Samuel 3:14]. David reminds her that he was chosen before her father Saul, and Michal had no child till the day of her death. Michal's attitude is like Israel was to Christ.
David had other wives and concubines, and I found the names of about 17 sons. [II Samuel 5:13]
Update, some thoughts on David as a type of the believer who loves the Lord but becomes entangled in the flesh. David's son Solomon became even more entangled, and with women who worshipped other gods and led Solomon to permit wrong. Believers are loved by the Lord, but do not honor Him as they once did. From this comes much harm and grief.
Conclusion:
Abigail stands out from the other wives of David. She had sent provisions to David and his men (during conflicts), and she was wise and beautiful and fell on her face before him. I was amazed at her words, prophetic, quoted below, which remind me of the church, and many things about this remind me of the Rapture, the meeting of Christ and His bride. Abigail has turned from her evil lord, who is described as a churl (brutal), whose name means folly, referred to as of Belial. [Nabal had refused David's message, saying, Who is David? ] Nabal is much like Satan in this. When Abigail sees David, she hastens to him and praises him, and speaks words about David's coming glory, and his rule, his appointment over Israel, she asks him to forgive the trespasses of his handmaid, and she asks him to remember her, and speaks of when he comes to rule over Israel.
I Samuel 25
13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff. 14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them. 15 But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: 16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. 17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.....
21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good. 22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, 24 And fell at his feet, and said,... hear the words of thine handmaid. 25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial,... Nabal is his name, and folly is with him.... now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. 27 28.... forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. 29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling. 30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; 31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:...
37 .... [Nabal's] heart died within him and he became as a stone. And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died....
39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said Blessed be the LORD,....
David married Abigail as his third wife and she bore him a son Chileab. Chileab means "perfection of the father."
Chileab was David's second son.
Michal, daughter of Saul, is mentioned in I Samuel 18:27, that she "loved David." Her sister Merab was to be given to David, but had married another, so Michal was given. [Merab means "increase."] Michal mocked David [II Samuel 6:20] as he danced before the Lord as the Ark was brought. Michal had taken another husband, Phaltiel, but David required that she be brought to him [II Samuel 3:14]. David reminds her that he was chosen before her father Saul, and Michal had no child till the day of her death. Michal's attitude is like Israel was to Christ.
David had other wives and concubines, and I found the names of about 17 sons. [II Samuel 5:13]
Then David married Bathsheba, and their infant son died, and their son Solomon inherited the throne, married many women who had idols, which brings to mind the unfaithful people of the end times.
From Alexander Whyte's comments about the multiple marriages and sin in David's house:
'The inconceivable evil of sensuality' was surely never more awfully burned in upon any sinful house than it was upon David's house. David himself is a towering warning to all men, and especially to all godly men against this master abomination. And, all the more that he sinned so terribly against such singular grace. David, to use his own words, was as white as snow as long as he was young, and poor, and struggling up, and oppressed, and persecuted, and with Samuel's horn of oil still sanctifying all the thoughts and all the imaginations of his heart.
But no sooner had David sat down on the throne of Israel than his life of sin and shame began. And all the woe upon woe of his after-life, almost every single deadly drop of it, came down out of that day when he first introduced open and unblushing sensuality into his palace in Jerusalem.
There was military success, and extended empire, and great wealth, and great and far-sounding glory in David's day in Israel; but beneath it all the whole ground was mined and filled to the lip with gun-powder, and the divine tinder all the time was surely burning its way to the divine vengeance on David's house. Our doctors, our lawyers, our ministers, and many of ourselves, will all subscribe to Newman's strong words in one of his sermons-'The inconceivable evil of sensuality.'
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