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Bible study · 2 Samuel 15:1-37

2 Samuel 15: The king goes up weeping

Read 2 Samuel 15:1-37 before you meet.

In a few lines

"Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel" (15:6) uses the Hebrew words Genesis uses when Jacob deceived Laban (Genesis 31:20), and when David prays against Ahithophel's counsel (15:31), the very next verse has Hushai walking up to meet him (15:32).

The verse to carry

“The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in the LORD’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it and his habitation; but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.””

2 Samuel 15:25-26

To talk about

  1. 1. Absalom told every man, "your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you" (15:3). Why are words like that so easy to believe, and how can you tell someone who wants your good from someone who wants your heart?

  2. 2. David said, "behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him" (15:26). What are you facing where saying that honestly to God would be hard, and what would it change?

  3. 3. Ittai had come "but yesterday" (15:20), and still said, "whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also" (15:21). Who has stood with you when it cost them, and who could you stand with now?

Prayer requests