Day 73: December 2, 2025 – II Samuel 6-10 and Psalm 20-21

This is clearly a block of Scripture which describes the multiple victories of David as King. But to begin this section we see that God makes a covenant with David as king that his house shall forever, but we see at least through Solomon, retain God’s favor and power. David expresses a desire to build a house for God, but his prophet, Nathan, has a vision that it will be David’s son, but this is all within the context of David having his family blessed as no other individual has had their family blessed in regards to rule over Israel. Abraham had a similar promise, but it was for the land. Here, David’s covenant is directly related to kingship.

As soon as we hear about his promise then David is off to the races and conquers those around him and does so in a way that thousands upon thousands fall upon the fields of victory. That is what the two psalm are about that we read. They are psalms of victory which obviously must have worked because of the prodigious amount of blood that David spills. We will see later this becomes a problem for David as he tries to build the temple, but I don’t want to steal the thunder.