A | 5: "All the tribes." David anointed.

B | E | 6: The bringing of the Ark to Zion (Psalm 24:).

F | 7: The promise. "He will make thee an house."

G | 8: 1-14. David's victories. Spoils dedicated to the Lord.

C | H | 8: 15-18. David's Officers. Joab, Zadok, etc.

I | 9: 1 - 10: 5. The house of Saul. "For Jonathan's sake."

J | 10: 6 - 11: 1. Wars. "But David tarried."

D | DAVID'S SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCE (11: 2 - 20: 22).

K | 12: 10. "The sword shall never depart from thy house."

L | 12: 13. "I have sinned."

M | 13: 1 - 20: 22. Consequences.

Amnon, Absalom, Sheba.

C | H | 20: 23. David's Officers. Joab. Zadok, etc.

I | 20: 1-14. Saul and his bloody house. "Jonathan."

J | 21: 15-22. Wars. "David waxed faint."

B | E | 22: Deliverance from all enemies (Psalm 18:).

F | 23: 1-7. The Prayer. "My house." "All my desire."

G | 23: 8-39. David's mighty men.

Water poured out before the Lord.

A | 24: 1-9. "All the tribes." Israel numbered.

D | DAVID'S SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCE (24: 10-25).

L | 24: 10. "I have sinned."

K | 24: 11-15. Famine, enemies or pestilence.

M | 24: 16-25. The offering.

While it will not be possible for us to go through this great section step by step, we

very much hope that many of our readers, with this analysis before them, will use it in

their own private study, for there are valuable lessons embedded in this record of

greatness and frailty, of high intent and tragic fall, that none of us can afford to miss.

Meanwhile we must devote ourselves to those parts of the record that foreshadow

David's greater Son.

The anointing of David as King over all Israel (II Sam. 5: 1-25).--The Israelites were

greatly troubled when they heard of the death of Abner (4: 1), and after the treacherous

murder of Ish-bosheth, all the tribes of Israel come to David and anoint him King.

They remind the King and one another of several important facts (II Sam. 5: 1, 2):