Guiding Questions: II Samuel 5

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. What was the “realpolitik” motivation for David to move his home from Hevron to Jerusalem?
  2. When is the first time the Bible uses the word “Zion”?
  3. What might the “lame and the blind” refer to?
  4. Compare the fact that David took many concubines and wives while in Jerusalem with Devarim 17:17. How do you make sense of the potential problem between these two texts?
  5. Compare David’s behavior in the heat of battle to that of Saul’s in I Samuel 13:12.

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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