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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Samuel 10:1-19
Following Mephibosheth, who accepted the grace of the king, we have the story of those who do not understand it and are unwilling to receive it.
David showed kindness to Hanun in seeking to comfort him. Even so Jesus desires to reveal Himself today to men, as the One who has borne their griefs and carried their sorrows (Isaiah 53:4). Can there be a greater outrage than to reject such love? How greatly David must have resented the insult offered to his servants! To how much greater a degree is the heart of the Saviour, so completely sensitive, wounded by the scorn of those who, day after day, reject the call of His love (John 5:40; Matthew 22:6).
There was still time for Hanun and his people to humble themselves, when they saw what a bad situation they had brought about. Abigail’s experience gives us the assurance that the judgment deserved would have been turned aside (1 Samuel 25). Instead of that, the pride and blindness of the children of Ammon drives them to open warfare against the one who had wished them well. But for David it is the occasion of a new victory, still more glorious than that recorded in ch. 8 over Hadadezer and the Syrians who had now joined forces with the Ammonites.
