Judges and Kings
- 2 Samuel 7
- Scott Cooley
- Mar 7, 2010
- Series: The StoryFormed Way
The sad story of Israel’s failure to hold faithfully to God sets up a new devel- opment in the Story. The repeated refrain of the book of Judges is, “There was no King in Israel in those days; everyone did what was right in their own eyes.” Israel begins to long for someone who can keep her faithful to God, unite her as a nation, and make her useful to God again. The first King, Saul, though hu- manly speaking a perfect choice, proves to be just as unfaithful as Israel ever was. So God chooses a humble shepherd, a boy named David, and proceeds to raise him into the kind of King Israel needs. David is far from perfect - he commits adultery and murders the woman’s husband - but he understands that God is after the heart, not just the outward actions. David truly loves God and wants to live dependently on him. Can David be longed-for King?