Wednesday Bible Study: A twice-told tale

 Ch. 14 is largely lifted from 2 Samuel 5, although it skips a lot. Basically it skips ahead to verse 13 of 2 Samuel 5, leaving out the fact that David already had a whole lot of wives and concubines. The reason for the Chronicler ' s selective lifting from Samuel isn ' t clear, but in general he seems to be trying to clean up David ' s image. In case you ' ve forgotten, the David of Samuel is one horrible son of a bitch. On the other hand, why the Chronicler felt the need to reprint this in the first place is equally unclear. To make it easy on you, I ' m going to provide the matching passages from Samuel after this.1 Chronicles 1414 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons and carpenters to build a palace for him.2 And David knew that theLord had established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom had been highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel.3 In Jerusalem David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.4 These are the names of the children born to him there: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,5 Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet,6 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,7 Elishama, Beeliada[a] and Eliphelet.David Defeats the Philistines8 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, they went up in full force to search for him, but David heard about it and went out to meet them.9 Now the Philistines had come and raided the Valley of Rephaim...
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