# David Righting Wrongs - The Book of 2 Samuel

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 8 Nov 2023, 13 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 83. Discover how King David helped his people during a tough time of famine, and how he showed respect for two important people, Saul and Jonathan, by collecting their bones. But trouble with the Philistines continued, teaching us that even great leaders face challenges that they must overcome. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Hi, Julia here. Before we begin today's episode of Kids
[0:04] Speaker 1: Bible in a Year, I have a special message for
[0:06] Speaker 1: the parents and adults listening along. Kids, if you're listening alone,
[0:11] Speaker 1: go ahead and pause this and get an adult so
[0:14] Speaker 1: they can listen too. This episode contains content that may
[0:19] Speaker 1: spark questions for your little one. The end of David's
[0:22] Speaker 1: life is filled with messes. So the next few episodes
[0:25] Speaker 1: will cover some hard topics requiring intentional follow-up conversations. We
[0:31] Speaker 1: have done our best to make this podcast best for
[0:34] Speaker 1: the kiddos while also remaining biblically faithful. But we also
[0:39] Speaker 1: recognize that if you're going to read the Bible, subjects
[0:42] Speaker 1: like these are bound to pop up. They are a
[0:44] Speaker 1: part of the Bible because they are a part of
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[0:50] Speaker 1: any sensitive topics right now, go ahead and skip this episode.
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[1:03] Speaker 1: There was a famine in the days of David for
[1:06] Speaker 1: three years. Year after year, and David sought the face
[1:12] Speaker 1: of the Lord. 2 Samuel 21 1 Dear God, thank
[1:18] Speaker 1: you for hearing us when we pray. We know that
[1:21] Speaker 1: sometimes you don't answer the way we want you to.
[1:25] Speaker 1: And that's okay because you always know what's best. Help
[1:30] Speaker 1: us to be patient when you are quiet and keep.
[1:33] Speaker 2: Our hearts pure.
[1:35] Speaker 1: We trust you. Father, in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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[2:16] Speaker 2: David writing wrongs. In our last story, Sheba leads the
[2:21] Speaker 2: people away from Israel, and David wants to hunt down Sheba.
[2:26] Speaker 2: In this story, we learn about a famine in the land,
[2:30] Speaker 2: and how David makes restitution to the Gibeonites. David collects
[2:35] Speaker 2: the bones of Saul and Jonathan, and again more war
[2:39] Speaker 2: against the Philistines breaks out, as inspired by 2 Samuel.
[2:47] Speaker 1: Hi friends, it's Julia Sadler here. I'm so glad to
[2:50] Speaker 1: have you here today. You are back for Kids Bible
[2:54] Speaker 1: in a Year podcast. Today, David is going to teach
[2:58] Speaker 1: us yet another lesson, but this time it has to
[3:03] Speaker 1: do with waiting and silence. So what are we going
[3:11] Speaker 1: to do? Let's jump in.
[3:17] Speaker 2: There was no food in the land of Israel for
[3:20] Speaker 2: three years. David first believed it was just a natural
[3:24] Speaker 2: event until he realized that it was coming from God.
[3:29] Speaker 2: So he asked the Lord what was going on, and
[3:32] Speaker 2: the Lord told him, It is because of what Saul
[3:36] Speaker 2: did to the Gibeonites. The tabernacles of God, the place
[3:40] Speaker 2: where God dwelled, was in the land called Gibeon. where
[3:44] Speaker 2: the Ark of God, which contained the stone writing of
[3:46] Speaker 2: the Ten Commandments, was in Jerusalem, so that the people
[3:50] Speaker 2: could worship God in two different places. When Joshua was alive,
[3:55] Speaker 2: the people who lived in Gibeon, or the Gibeonites, made
[3:58] Speaker 2: a deal with Israel. But King Saul ignored their agreements
[4:03] Speaker 2: and decided to wipe out all of the Gibeonite people.
[4:06] Speaker 2: He tried to kill every one of them so they
[4:09] Speaker 2: would no longer exist. David went to the Gibeonites that
[4:13] Speaker 2: were not destroyed and said, Our people have wronged you.
[4:18] Speaker 2: How can we make it better and be at peace
[4:21] Speaker 2: with you again? They replied, Money cannot make up for
[4:25] Speaker 2: Saul killing our brothers and sisters. And we are too weak,
[4:29] Speaker 2: and there is too little of us to bring revenge
[4:32] Speaker 2: on Israel. But we are not mad at all the
[4:36] Speaker 2: people who live in Israel. We are only angry at
[4:40] Speaker 2: the man who tried to destroy all of us. David asked,
[4:45] Speaker 2: So how can we help you? The people said, Give
[4:50] Speaker 2: us seven of Saul's male family members. We are going
[4:54] Speaker 2: to kill them in his hometown, near where the people
[4:57] Speaker 2: worship God. David agreed and got two of Saul's sons
[5:03] Speaker 2: and five of his grandsons because of a promise David
[5:07] Speaker 2: made with one of Saul's sons, Jonathan, He did not
[5:10] Speaker 2: choose his son Mephisbosheth to be killed. So the Gibeonites
[5:14] Speaker 2: killed those men and put their bodies on a hill
[5:18] Speaker 2: close to where the people went to worship. David went
[5:21] Speaker 2: to the city where Saul and his son Jonathan were
[5:24] Speaker 2: buried to get their bones. He then buried them with
[5:28] Speaker 2: the seven other men in their family tomb. After all
[5:33] Speaker 2: of this happened, David went to God in prayer about
[5:36] Speaker 2: the land. God listened to him. and answered his prayers.
[5:42] Speaker 2: After a few years had passed, war was declared on
[5:45] Speaker 2: Israel by the Philistines. David led his men into battle
[5:49] Speaker 2: while fighting alongside them. During the fight, he became exhausted,
[5:55] Speaker 2: and one of Goliath's family members noticed. He planned on
[5:59] Speaker 2: killing David, and David wasn't at his strongest, because the
[6:02] Speaker 2: Philistine was a huge, strong man. He went to kill David,
[6:08] Speaker 2: But one of David's men stopped the giant and killed
[6:11] Speaker 2: him instead. David was then taken out of the fight,
[6:16] Speaker 2: and his men took an oath to him, saying, Never
[6:20] Speaker 2: again will you fight on the battlefield with us. You
[6:24] Speaker 2: are the lamp of Israel, and your light shall never
[6:28] Speaker 2: go out. After that day, David never went out to
[6:33] Speaker 2: war again.
[6:40] Speaker 1: Man, thank goodness David's friends were there to help him out.
[6:45] Speaker 1: Today's story begins with another famine in the land. Does
[6:49] Speaker 1: anyone else get hungry when we talk about the famines?
[6:53] Speaker 1: I do. There was no food in Israel and things
[6:57] Speaker 1: were not looking up. God's people were getting scared and
[7:01] Speaker 1: most likely praying daily for God's help. But it seemed
[7:06] Speaker 1: as though God wasn't answering. It seemed as though they
[7:10] Speaker 1: were in the dark, waiting. Finally, David realizes that maybe
[7:16] Speaker 1: God is being quiet for a reason. But what could
[7:20] Speaker 1: it be? David does something smart when he doesn't think
[7:24] Speaker 1: his prayers are being answered. He gets very still and
[7:29] Speaker 1: asks God to answer his prayers. And when he asks,
[7:34] Speaker 1: he also listens very closely with his heart. Like David,
[7:40] Speaker 1: there will be many times in life when you feel
[7:44] Speaker 1: like God is not answering a prayer. It may feel
[7:48] Speaker 1: a little like you are in the dark too. Maybe
[7:52] Speaker 1: someone you love is sick and you're begging God for healing.
[7:57] Speaker 1: Maybe you have a big problem that you don't know
[8:00] Speaker 1: how to solve. Maybe you want something or just need
[8:04] Speaker 1: help doing something that's hard for you. In the Bible,
[8:09] Speaker 1: we see a great example of this in the life
[8:12] Speaker 1: of Job. He had some terrible things happen to him,
[8:17] Speaker 1: and he was begging God to answer and help. But
[8:21] Speaker 1: all he heard was silence and more silence. In fact,
[8:27] Speaker 1: in the first 37 chapters of the book of Job,
[8:31] Speaker 1: God is completely silent until he finally speaks. That's a
[8:36] Speaker 1: long time. Sometimes it can be hard to understand why
[8:41] Speaker 1: God would want to stay quiet and not answer our prayers.
[8:46] Speaker 1: Doesn't he care? Yes, of course he does. And you
[8:52] Speaker 1: can ask him. You can ask, why aren't you answering this?
[8:56] Speaker 1: And you can tell God, ask God, please help me
[9:00] Speaker 1: to stay strong while I wait for you. There are
[9:04] Speaker 1: different reasons why God may not be saying yes to
[9:08] Speaker 1: your prayers right now. One reason might be that it's
[9:12] Speaker 1: not what's best for you, even if you think it is.
[9:17] Speaker 1: He may have things he wants to teach you while
[9:20] Speaker 1: you wait. God always gives us what we need. So
[9:25] Speaker 1: if we don't need it, that's a reason we don't
[9:29] Speaker 1: have it. He never denies us what we need. to
[9:34] Speaker 1: be close to him. He may want to work on
[9:38] Speaker 1: your heart in ways you can't understand right now. Other
[9:42] Speaker 1: times God may not answer because he might be waiting
[9:46] Speaker 1: for you to make something right. Maybe you have sinned
[9:51] Speaker 1: or there's something you too need to talk about first.
[9:55] Speaker 1: Maybe there's something wrong he wants to show you. This
[9:59] Speaker 1: was the case for david remember joshua years ago he
[10:04] Speaker 1: had made a promise to a people called the gibeonites
[10:10] Speaker 1: when saul became king he broke that promise on behalf
[10:13] Speaker 1: of god's people so god wanted david to go make
[10:18] Speaker 1: things right again And thankfully, David obeyed. He went to
[10:23] Speaker 1: the Gibeonites, apologized, and did what they asked him to do.
[10:28] Speaker 1: And guess what? After that, the Bible tells us that
[10:31] Speaker 1: David prayed to God again, and God answered. No more famine.
[10:39] Speaker 1: The story ends with a familiar rival. Those Philistines are back.
[10:44] Speaker 1: But this time, some of Goliath's relatives are after David.
[10:49] Speaker 1: The Bible says that David was getting older and pretty tired.
[10:53] Speaker 1: He couldn't fight like he used to. So David's servants
[10:57] Speaker 1: fought for him. When David had no strength left to
[11:02] Speaker 1: keep going, his friends gave him their strength and fought
[11:06] Speaker 1: for him. This is one of the best things about
[11:09] Speaker 1: being in the family of God and connected to the
[11:13] Speaker 1: local church. As brothers and sisters in Christ, we can
[11:18] Speaker 1: help each other We can be strong when a friend
[11:22] Speaker 1: is weak or let others help us when we're too
[11:25] Speaker 1: tired to keep going. We close today's story with God's
[11:29] Speaker 1: people comparing David to a lamp whose light will never
[11:33] Speaker 1: go out. I love that. And that's not all. From
[11:38] Speaker 1: David's family, we would soon have someone come who would
[11:43] Speaker 1: be called the light of the world, Jesus. And when
[11:48] Speaker 1: we walk with him, we're never in dark. Thanks for
[11:52] Speaker 1: listening today. Next time, David is going to learn a
[11:55] Speaker 1: hard lesson about pride. And we will too. Remember, the
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