II Samuel

1: 10. Saul neglected to punish Agag the Amah-kite, and at his death he was stripped of his crown and ornaments by a prowling Amah-kite.

3: 3. David married a princess who was not of Israel, in order to strengthen his kingdom: and Absalom was her son.

11: 2. Absalom was guilty of incest at the same place as

David his father — on the king’s roof.
Chap. 10:2. As you sow, you will reap.

8. Do you stumble at the lives of some of these Uible characters? The Bible tells how salvation comes to the sinner, not to the righteous. Chap. 12: 14.

12: 1. A short sermon from a God-sent man.

When his hearers resented St. Augustine’s frequent

reproofs, he said: “Change your conduct and I

will change my conversation.” The rough hewing of reproof is only to square us

for the heaven ly building.

7. Notice the “I’s,” “thou’s,” “thee’s.” A pointed and personal application.

J.4. “By this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme.” How often David is held up by infidels now! The Scripture is fulfilled.

A man may become of no use in this universe except as a warning — “to point a moral, or adorn a tale.”

If you commit one sin, it will cause you many sorrows and the world man)- triumphs.

The world will sooner make an excuse for its own enormities than for your infirmities.

14: 15. Not only must we talk to Jesus, but we must listen to him. Not pray less, but listen more.

18: 18. Cato said he would rather have men ask why he had no monument, than why he had one.

19: 2. Many can mourn over a body from which the soul Jias departed, when they do not mourn over a soul whom God has deserted. 22: Praise for deliverance!

23: 11. The patch of lentils was a small thing to fight for; but Shammah was fighting on the right side,

and the Lord wrought a great victory through him.

20. “Benaiah... went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.” So Christ left the Father and came down to earth to kill sin in our fallen nature.