- What words characterize David’s emotional disposition in this chapter?
- What is the Hebrew word the text uses for figs? Why does it use this particular word?
- Note I Kings 2:8 for David’s ultimate attitude towards Shimi.
- What was the nature of Achitophel’s counsel to Absalom? Why would this advice “strengthen” the hands of all that were with Achitophel?
- II Samuel 15:22 reads, “and Absalom lay with his father’s concubines with the full knowledge of all Israel.” How is this a fulfillment of Nathan’s prophesy? (See II Samuel 12:11.)
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