#book of 2 samuel

[artandthebible]

David and Bathsheba

Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi  (Italian, 1593–1653) 

Genre: Religious Art

Depicted People: Bathsheba

Date: circa 1636-1637

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

David and Bathsheba

The story of David and Bathsheba is one of the most dramatic accounts in the Old Testament. One night in Jerusalem, King David was walking upon his rooftop when he spotted a beautiful woman bathing nearby (2 Samuel 11:2). David asked his servants about her and was told she was Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, one of David’s mighty men (2 Samuel 23:39). Despite her marital status, David summoned Bathsheba to the palace, and they slept together.

[cmariottini]

David: Celebrating God Wholeheartedly

Michal Watching David From a Windowby James Tissot (1896 -1902)Wikimedia Commons The rise of David to become the king of Israel coincided with God’s rejection of Saul because of his failure to obey the voice of God. When Yahweh commanded Saul to fight against the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15:1–2), Saul did not do what God had commanded him to do to the Amalekites. Yahweh told Samuel, “I regret that I…

[camo-wolf]

Spoilers for my adventures with Superman season 2 episode 1

…I’m not the only one right? It’s literally the same picture

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

David inquired of the LORD

So David inquired of Yahweh, but he said, “You shall not go up. Rather, go around to their rear and come to them from opposite the balsam trees. — 2 Samuel 5:23 | Lexham English Bible (LEB) Lexham English Bible 2012 by Logos Bible Software. Cross References: 1 Samuel 22:15; 1 Samuel 23:2; 2 Samuel 5:19; 1 Chronicles 14:14

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2 Samuel 5:23 Commentaries

[nnennem]

Read your Bible, babe.

Spend time with God.

Pray.

[cinematic-literature]

L'amica geniale S02E04 (Il bacio)

Book title: Il teatro di Samuel Beckett (1961) by Samuel Beckett

The plays included in this Einaudi edition are

Aspettando Godot (Waiting for Godot in English; 1949)

Finale di partita (Endgame in English; 1957)

Atto senza parole (Act Without Words in English; 1957)

Tutti quelli che cadono (All That Fall in English; 1956)

L'ultimo nastro di Krapp (Krapp's Last Tape in English; 1958)

Ceneri (Embers in English; 1958)

Atto senza parole II (Act Without Words II in English; 1959)

Giorni felici (Happy Days in English; 1961)

[craigtowens]

Getting Uncomfortable With Staying Comfortable

God has gifted us to soar, but we have mostly limited ourselves to our comfort zone. God is calling us to get uncomfortable with staying comfortable by confronting the lies that have kept us trapped.

Listen to the podcast of this post by clicking on the player below, and you can also subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Audible.  https://craigtowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/getting-uncomfortable-with-staying-comfortable.mp3 We as a Church are underperforming. How do I know this? Look at the way the world treats Christians; specifically, look at what’s NOT happening.  “By this all will know…

[sapphicautistic]

was this romance novel actually good or am I just soppy late at night

[sharkshavebeenknowntosneeze]

Is this really the origin? Three words? Crazy that it became such a significant part of his character and force lore in general

@ourbonesmccoy This was close to how I always imagined it. I read it was a demand in his contract before accepting. But “folding under absolutely no pressure” is a perfect description

Happy Star Wars day! I love how happy Mr Jackson is upon hearing those final words :3

[baaad-omens]

"He was not so great, nor nearly so great, as Ajax the son of Telamon" ?? why on earth would you word a sentence like that. how did that make it to print

[artandthebible]

King David In Prayer

Artist: Pieter de Grebber (Dutch, 1600-1652/1653)

Genre: Religious Art

Date: circa 1635-1640

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, Netherlands

King David In Prayer

The story of king David and the three plagues is told in 2 Samuel 24 and in 1 Chronicles 21. In the Chronicles it is Satan who pushes David to take a census. Joab, the captain of David's army, attempts to change his king's mind: why count people when the Lord adds a hundredfold? But David persists.

When the census is done, David is overcome by remorse for his act of vanity. He asks God to forgive him. God sends a messenger, the prophet Gad, to have David choose from three plagues.

In this painting by De Grebber, a painter from the Dutch town of Haarlem, Gad is not present. An angel holds the symbols of the plagues: a skull for three days of pestilence, a sword for three months of persecution by David's enemies, and empty ears of corn for three (or seven) years of famine.

David picks the shortest punishment, one not by man: pestilence. 70,000 men died.

Next to David are his attributes: a crown and a harp.

[aparticularbandit]

Looking through the Round One Bible bracket to find what happened to 2 Timothy, my beloved, and it got put up against Jeremiah and like.

I get it. Yeah. I see. Knocked out in Round One by a sweeper. I'm not surprised.

[martyschoenleber]

Christians Need to Learn the Art of Sprezzatura

I learned a new word today and it stimulated some new thoughts. “Sprezzatura” is a kind of studied carelessness, especially as a characteristic quality or style of art or literature. Sprezzatura ([sprettsaˈtuːra]) is an Italian word that first appears in Baldassare Castiglione‘s 1528 The Book of the Courtier, where it is defined by the author as “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art…

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Loyalty of the Men of Judah

So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem. — 2 Samuel 20:2 | Cambridge Paragraph Bible (CAMB) The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version, by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose, 1813-1891. Published by Cambridge University Press. Cross References: 2 Samuel 20:1; 2 Samuel 20:3; 2 Samuel 20:21

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Sheba's Rebellion

[bannedpreaching1611]

The Book of 2 Samuel | KJV Audio Jon Sherberg (With Text)

[tenth-sentence]

Goudsmit had never realized so clearly before as he did in that Strasbourg prison what the war had done to science and scientists and how fundamentally different, in fact quite antagonistic, the rules were which governed scientific life and the practice of warfare.

"Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists" - Robert Jungk, translated by James Cleugh