Day 75: December 4, 2025 – II Samuel 16-18 and Psalms 4-5 and 7

David’s strategy of putting a prophet mole in the house of Absalom works. But interestingly enough the advice that the mole gives is that Absalom should not pursue David, but rather hang back, and the other prophet says to pursue David. It seems at first like the King follows the advice of the mole, to the point that the one in Absalom’s house goes out and hangs himself because he is not being listened to. But then the next thing we see is Absalom pursuing David to his own defeat and eventually his own death, killed like a pinata.

The Psalms reflect David’s desire to have the protection and safety of God even in the midst of the violence that was ever a part of his life. This desire we see finds itself come true especially in these Scriptures where we see God protect David, even as it looks like David’s plans come to fruition with his mole prophet.