He went after a people that God did not want exterminated anymore. Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! Then they were able to pick up the pieces of their lives and move forward by the strength that God gave them to overcome and to grow, and to put on the mindthe characterof Christ. BATTLE AGAINST ENVY AND JEALOUSY Scripture has said this explicitly. Joshua kept his word to the Gibeonites even when it was inconvenient. One other thing: Samuel said that God is not going to go back on His word. There was a covenant with those people that not only Joshua and the people honored, but also God Himself honored as well. However, if they did not participate, they are not going to be given a black mark by God for something that they did not do. David then goes to Gibeonites and asked to make amends. Wherever he turned, he harassed them. Then Gibeon was a mile or two more to the north-northwest. There is less bloodshed, and there will not be much opportunity like in Gentile nations for these blood feuds to last for years and generations. Only when the Gibeonites were under siege from a common enemy and were calling in the marker on their mutual aid treaty did the Israelites turn to God for counsel and advice. WebOne of the mothers of the men hanged by the Gibeonites protected the bodies of Saul's sons from birds and wild beasts day and night. If people grow up in a society and culture that does not have God at their beck and call, they do whatever they wantwhatever comes naturally. The choice by Adam and Eve in the garden was a sin, and they paid for it through death. Instead of warfare and bloodshed, their weapons were guile and deceit. Then we have the explanations of which we just went over. Much later, King Saul ignored this covenant of peace and killed some Gibeonites. It comes as a snare, Christ says, on everybody. Pagan cultures were killed because they were pagan cultures and they were making war on Gods people. Now, if we would go through II Samuel 24, that even though David made a huge mistake in chapter 21, he did it right in chapter 24. The cities of refuge were designed (among other things) to stop and prevent these feuds from happening. That is basically how it was. We want them to reflect what a real person would do in extreme or extraordinary circumstances. King David was compelled to hand over his own people to the power of Israel's ongoing enemies. A little further down, we read: II Samuel 21:2 . This incident appears in time sequence toward the end of his life. And it very seriously affected his judgment in this matter. Web2 Samuel 21:1 Context. He did not perform any miracle, or any other thing to show that He was happy with the way that things turned out. God did not necessarily overlook all their sins, but He certainly forgave them. He has mercy, and holds the curses to just a few generations, but He allows the results of doing righteousness to last forever. SERIES INTRODUCTION Ezekiel 18:19-20 indicates that guilt for sin is not transferable, but the consequences can often touch several generations. But it does not say so here in so many words. Some unfinished business here needs to be taken care of. For a relatively small group the Gibeonites drove a hard bargain and soon it was a done deal. And after that God heeded the prayer for the land. Up and down your family tree, sin does not go. There were big problems, and one of them was the consequences and effects of Saul and his bloodthirsty house. It wouldnt be surprising if these people had become worshippers of God, from their exposure to the tabernacle and teaching. God punished the whole nation for breaking the covenant. Later, during a wasting famine, David, attempting a political rather than a righteous solution, yielded to the Gibeonites' request that descendants of Saul be hanged to avenge the slaughter. The second is at the end of verse 2, that "Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for Israel and Judah." It causes a problem in the way that the next generation is formed. Go coach! On the other hand, when people do well, like Abraham, and they live God's way of life, this allows God the leeway to show mercy unto thousands of generations of people. Evidently, this is what Saul and most of his family was like, except Jonathan. Saul committed a great crime against Gibeon and the Gibeonites. Other people do not carry the guilt for that person's sin. This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. Much later, King Saul ignored this covenant of peace and killed some Gibeonites. He enslaved them all, and made them wood cutters and menial laborers at the Tabernacle. Leviticus 26:18-20 And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. God is warning here that sin has consequences. WebThe Lord answered, Saul and his family of murderers are the reason for this shortage, because he killed the Gibeonites. 2 Samuel 21:1 American Standard Version (ASV) 1 And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. If you read Psalm 51 it is very clear that he understood his own makeup. Throughout the centuries, the original Gibeonites continued to exist as a people, although King Saul schemed to destroy them. The Gibeonites, howev At the time the Israelites under Joshua invaded the Promised Land of Canaan, most of the inhabitants rose up in arms against them. David was Born Mar 2, 2022 A three-year famine occurs as a result of Sauls attack on the Gibeonites Mar 2, 2022. Hebrews 11 exhibits a whole chapter of men and women just like us who, despite their humanity and frequent foibles, fought the good fight of faith and were victorious in the end through the grace of God. Who are the twenty four elders that John foresaw? Where have you been, David? WebWhen God called Saul to be king, Israel was on the verge of collapse. Psalm 34:17-18 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. From the time of Joshua, throughout the long period of the Judges, the very presence of these deceitful people had not only been a thorn in the side of the Israelis; their position in the land was a dividing wedge that separated southern Judah from the rest of the Kingdom. You had only black and white television if you had television. There were not very many of them left. This cultural thing about wanting our heroes flawed is so deeply ingrained in us that we cannot imagine anyone going through life without sin. And how do I know this? King Saul would conscript them into the army, and off they would go in a bloodthirsty rage against somebody else. Then, I am sure, he started to think about other things that were happening, and he started to make some reforms in himself. And the Lord said, There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death. 2 So the king called the Gibeonites and You do not know. And if He sinned, then He could not be our Savior. The Gibeonites were a very shrewd bunch of people. Saul and the Pharisees persecuted and killed the Christians, The sons of King Saul were killed as a result of this attempted genocide, The non-Christian inhabitants of Jerusalem were destroyed in AD70 Gods judgment on them for murdering his son and doubtless, the early Christians. Saul became a bit strange in the head after this, if you will remember. There are things like destruction for their sin, and the family takes that long to recover from that destruction. And the LORD answered, "It is because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites." Therefore, the world is full of sintheir own sin. And that day Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, in the place which He would choose, even to this day. But, they like the dark one because he is moody, and doing things not for quite the right reasons. My supposition is that he may have been still questioning God about the way his reign seemed to have crumbled, and all he had was enemies around him. And it would have been done quickly and easily. Jesus Christ should be everyone's ultimate hero. A person dies for his own sins, not those committed by someone else, whether father, son, or black sheep uncle. As mentioned earlier, there was the rebellion of Absalom. DECEPTION AND COST Jew or gentile? Their deceit, Israel's lack of vigilance and Saul's deep delusion caused God's people centuries of grief and embarrassment. What Saul did was commit another presumptuous sin. Now, turn to the episode of King David, which we introduced. The verb is used in this sense with respect to Joshua's action toward the Gibeonites in Joshua 9:27, where cultic servitude is involved ("for the altar of the Lord"). Evidently, that is what he did. So he said, "Whatever you say, I will do for you." These cagey enemies of God's people were destined to be destroyed, so they devised a simple, but clever scheme to deceive Israel in the hope of saving their own necks. Joshua did try to make lemonade out of his lemons. What have you been thinking about?". II Samuel 21:14 So they performed all that the king commanded. What I am trying to show you by going through these different places is that there is plenty of law that King David could have looked back on. Saul also had sound state reasons for his action, for the Gibeonites were occupying an enclave in the very This would be in the spring during or after the Days of Unleavened Bread. Instead, the Gibeonites demanded the execution of seven of Saul's sons. We would like to make a covenant with you.". And the Lord said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death. God was not in all his thoughts during this time. Also, the Lord pronounced, It is a result of the massacre by Saul and welcome classification because Saul indeed destroyed the Gibeonites in the Bible. Psalm 34:4-10 I sought the LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. We know that you said not to make a covenant with the people the land. One is God's judgment upon the actual person for the actual sin; the other is God's punishment that He has automatically put into the law that allows the effects to last for a few generations. Web11 Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelek son of Ahitub and all the men of his family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king. Is that what happened?" But, very few people can relate to sinless perfection. Then there are things of degeneracy. No one killed king David. He died of old age, at the age of three score and ten (70 years). His son Solomon succeeded him. You might be thinking of Then, pray for all you are worth so that your relationship with God and Jesus Christ is strong when the famine hits. Saul, Israel's first king thought he knew better than God. The Israelites had been dealing with the Gibeonites, who were Hivitesand as it says here, they were a part of the Amorite peoplesince the first days in the land under Joshua. Sheba's rebellion is in the previous chapter, II Samuel 20. It did not come the next week, or the next month, or the month after that, all through the summer and into the fall holy days. Completely ignoring God's explicit command to spare the Gibeonites, Saul decreed it was time to remove them completely by exterminating them. Ezekiel 18 makes it clear that God punishes people for their own iniquity. Gibeon is only a few miles mostly north of Jerusalem. How many died in sicknesses? Now Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until the late rains poured on them from heaven. I think he was distracted because the turmoil had taken such a toll on Israel, and the famine too, that he was worried about the economy, rebuilding cities and fortifications, and his alliances with Hiram and others. We see in this little vignette that innocent people die; grief lingers forever; idolatry is committed; and the curse of famine continues; another harvest fails; and the land remains defiled; everything stinks of death. Over the years I've urged our Fellowship to check out, investigate and take to heart such biblical alarms. I also want you to see how warlike Saul was. He committed colossal sins that whole nations would be held in contempt for. Now if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you the land which He promised to give to your fathers, and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three, lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you. Of course, a part of it is being able to look at ourselves and see how dirty, nasty, and rotten we are, and saying, "There is no way that anybody could live in this world without sin; even God's beloved Son.". Fifty years ago was 1957. This was a long time ago. 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