David gets back to his musician roots as he faces his mid life crisis to sing a song about God. We're not going to go over the whole song but here's a snippet I made for you using mine own angelic pipes for singing and angelic hands for drawing and angelic lack of shame for posting this on the internet. You're welcome.
Chapter 23:
David is dying so it is time for him to sing a song speech about what an awesome leader he was.
" 'If my house were not right with God,
surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant,
arranged and secured in every part;
surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation
and grant me my every desire.
6 But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,
which are not gathered with the hand.
7 Whoever touches thorns
uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear;
they are burned up where they lie.' ”
TLDR: David was perfect and the evidence of that was that God kept a covenant with him. God dumps evil men and they deserve it.
Hey remember that time David committed adultery by sleeping with another man's wife he had been spying on while walking along the rooftops like pervert Batman? And remember when he made that husband go die in battle for him so no one would know?
Oh hey and remember that time he took Saul's daughter away from her husband and forced her to marry him?
And that time he ignored his daughter's incestuous rape?
Typically when a public figure dies, we all forget the bad shit they did. David is already doing that for us.
The book then seamlessly transitions to discussing David's three best warriors. One of them killed 800 people at once. That's like 2x my graduating high school class size. That's a lot of dead people for a good guy to create.
The other two murder buddies were also successful in killing Philistines says the book with no examples or details.
Once the three warriors snuck behind enemy territory just to get David a drink of water from his favorite well. Instead of saying thank you, David complains and pours the water out for his sky murder friend.
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| If David's ungrateful ass ever came to my home. |
Chapter 24:
God is mad. David does a census. God is mad about that. There must be punishment for counting people BECAUSE OF REASONS. David can choose between 3 years of famine, 3 months of running from his enemies or 3 days of plague.
David chooses the plague because plagues as we all know now, are so not a big deal.
70,000 people die.
There is an angel of pestilence doing the killing which sounds very cool but the book wastes the opportunity as a passing sentence. Fortunately the internet did not let me down:
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| This is the only angel I want on top of my Christmas tree from now on. |
David says that only he should be punished instead. His punishment is to build an altar and have a BBQ just for God. Then, everything is fine. Except for all the people that died. They're definitely going to have to redo the census now.
That is the end of II Samuel and of all the Samuels!
It only took around 3 years to do it. The next chapter is Kings. Let's see if we can get it done in a swift 2 years.
