Book of 2 Samuel Summary: A Complete Animated Overview

Watch our overview video on the book of 2 Samuel, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. In 2 Samuel, David becomes God's most faithful king, but then rebels, resulting in the slow destruction of his family and kingdom.
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Thank you. Your presentations really help. This one also illustrates a beautiful literary element called Chiasmus ( Ky-az-mus). Chiasmus or a chiasm is a list of things or events that points to a central theme by presenting a sequence and then reversing the sequence with a list of parallels and the central theme or the point is the event in the middle, or by listing sequence and parallel in the same order both ending in the principle theme. A, B, C, D, E, d, c, b, a or Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, E. Your presentation of the end of 2 Samuel illustrates this well. Good job. God Bless.

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Some of my favorite lines from 2 Samuel: 2 Samuel 7:18-20 _Then David the king went in and sat before the LORD, and he said, "Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far? And yet this was insignificant in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, for You have spoken also of the house of Your servant concerning the distant future. And this is the custom of man, O Lord GOD. Again what more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD!"_

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‭‭II Samuel 14:14 NKJV‬‬ [14] For we will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him.

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Actually David tries to cover it up by having Uriah and Bathsheba sleep together first. Unfortunately that doesn't work out because Uriah is a soldier worried about his fellow soldiers fighting while he's not. Then Uriah gets assassinated.

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