The Tanakh Podcast

David fights on every front: Philistines, Moav, Aram, Edom, Amalek, Amon, and succeeds in growing the kingdom to a veritable empire.
The chapter ends with David's growing national administration.
Our discussion will focus upon the military force that David is using and its justification.

David requests to build the Temple. God says no. Why? Is it because he has blood on his hands? Our chapter offers a different reason.

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David has captured Jerusalem. But how does he bring God to the city? By making a home for the Aron - the Ark of God - in Jerusalem.
But a terrible accident happens as the procession makes its way - the Ark slips and Uzzah tries to save it but is killed.
What is David going to do to repair the situation?
And how does this relate to the argument between David and his wife, Michal bat Shaul?

In this chapter David becomes King over the entire nation and immediately sets to create a new capital city - Jerusalem. The entire chapter depicts the way that David solidifies and stabilizes his position as monarch.
Why Jerusalem? How was it captured? 
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Two officers of Ish-Boshet's army come into his house and murder him in broad daylight.
What do they wish to achieve?
What is their motivation?
In this, the third of the assassination stories, we hear yet again how David does not want to rise to the throne over the death of his political rivals.
we also address two other topics:
1. Ish-Boshet's strange name. And
2. The story of the tribes of Be'erot.
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