Random Chunks of Writing?

Psalms 23, 42, 51, 137

These pieces were different from the others.
Unlike the others in which there actually was a beginning, middle, and an end, these just seem to pop out of nowwhere.

Psalm 23 was one in which David praises God. He says,
"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want." (Psalms 23:1)
Obviously, this shows that David is very loyal to God, believes in him and knows that God will guide him through the right path.

However, the tone was different in a different part of a Psalm of David.
"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." (Psalms 51:1) says David. He rather sound sadder and regretful. If you knew the story of David, this is the part in which David is begging to be forived for how David indirectly killed Uriah to get his wife, Bathsheba.

In Psalm 42, the person sort of questions God. Now, now, don't do that. Remember Job? Hahaha. Anyways, although he questions God, he still praises God and believes him in the end.

Here, after I had read some parts of Psalms, I noticed that these don't sound like songs. They sound rather more like random chunks of stories. Is it because it's a translation? Is it because there's no melody to it? Maybe both?

In Psalm 137, the person singing this 'song' seems to remember something from his past. Something about Zion. Ooh. Now I know where the 'Zion' from the 'Matrix' came from. It did come from the bible, right?

All of these parts that I have read show people generally praising God. I guess that's the whole point. However, it is somewhat harder to understand than most other stories due to the lack of background information.

Fairness

Second Samuel 2~18

To be very simple, Joab kills Abner, David mourns for him. Ish-bosheth is betrayed and killed. David becomes officially the king of Israel. They attack Jerusalem and win the castle. They bring the Ark of Covenant into the castle. He indirectly 'steals' the wife of a soldier (through the deth of the soldier in war), and is punished through the death of their first son. Absalom kills Amnon (both are David's sons). A few years later, Absalom is forgiven by David. Absalom becomes the king of Hebron.

Although these chapters had much more information than just this, if said simply, that's pretty much it.

I thought it was cool that all the situations in the story involved fair and even judgement. When Ish-bosheth's soldiers betrayed him, killed him, and took his head to David, David ordered to cut their arms and legs off. That's what they get for betraying their own king.

Mephibosheth, who was Jonathan's son, was given all the land that Saul previously had, for although his grandfather (Saul) was evil, his father was 'righteous', so David made a fair decision for him.

When David killed Uriah and married his wife, the child died, which was God's fair judgement towards the sin that Davd had commited.
"Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun." (Second Samuel 12:11) said Nathan to David. God sure is very fair (and is a very good promise-keeper), for all that God had told Nathan to tell David has or will come true. Too bad David couldn't live all his life as a righteous-loved-by-God guy.

Judging by all that has happened, Absalom will soon recieve fair judgement too. He killed his brother, and although David did forgive him, I don't think God will stay happy about it. Whatever.

David Against the World

First Samuel 17 ~ Second Samuel 2

A Philistine, Goliath (who is huge) challenges Israel. David goes to fight him with permission from Saul. David shoots a rock at him with a sling and then kills him with Goliath's own sword. The army wins the Philistines. David and Jonathan (Saul's son) becomes friends.

Soon, when Saul starts worrying that David will take his place of king, he keeps sending David to wars, always to return with victory. When Saul tries to kill David diretly, David runs away. While Saul was searching for David, David had the chance of killing Saul in his sleep, but doesn't. When Saul wakes up, he sees what he has done wrong.

Saul gets told by Samuel that he is to die with his sons the next day. While David fought some Philistines and won, Saul's sons were killed by the Philistines in their own war. Saul suicides. David and his people mourned for all of them. Then David goes to Hebron where he is blessed as a king. Meanwhile, Abner and Ish-bosheth were ruling the other side of the Jordan River.


In the fight between David and Goliath, I think it had much more meaning than just how you would be better off believing in God. It also shows that sometimes the small can win the big, that the young can win the old, and so on. Don't underestimate prairie dogs just because they are small and cute. They can kill you.

When David had the chance of killing Saul, he said:
"Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD’S anointed." (First Samuel 24:10)
Something about how he didn't kill him, for he was chosen as a king from God in the first place. Since God had already regretted having Saul as king and wanted another, killing Saul wouldn't have been much. Actually, I think it would have saved Jonathan too. Well, too bad.

It's cool how David goes through all this trouble (although, typically, he overcomes it all and goes on to his next trouble). It's like as if David is the hero of our comic book, and it's him against the rest of the world. I'm just saying.