2 Samuel-Outline

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2 Samuel 1: David Informed, Mourns for Saul and Jonathan

  1. The Amalekite who accused himself of Saul’s death is slain
  2. David laments Saul and Jonathan with a song

2 Samuel 2: David Made King over Judah; Ish-Bosheth Rules over Israel

  1. David, by God’s direction, with his company goes up to Hebron
  2. where he is made king of Judah
  3. He commends them of Jabesh Gilead for their king of Israel
  4. Abner makes Ishbosheth king of Israel
  5. A mortal skirmish between twelve of Abner’s and twelve of Joab’s men.
  6. Asahel is slain
  7. At Abner’s motion, Joab sounds a retreat
  8. Asahel’s burial

2 Samuel 3: House of David Strengthened; Joab murders Abner

  1. During the war David becomes stronger
  2. Six sons are born to him in Hebron
  3. Abner, displeased with Ishbosheth
  4. revolts to David
  5. David requires as a condition to bring him his wife Michal
  6. Abner confers with the Israelites, feasted by David, and dismissed
  7. Joab returning from battle, is displeased with the king, and kills Abner
  8. David curses Joab
  9. and mourns for Abner

2 Samuel 4: The Murder of Ish-bosheth

  1. The Israelites being troubled at the death of Abner
  2. Baanah and Rechab slay Ish-Bosheth, and bring his head to Hebron
  3. David causes them to be slain, and Ish-Bosheth’s head to be buried.

2 Samuel 5: David Becomes King over All Israel, Defeats the Philistines

  1. The tribes come to Hebron and anoint David over Israel,
  2. David’s age
  3. Taking Zion from the Jebusites, he dwells in it
  4. Hiram sends to David,
  5. Eleven sons are born to him in Jerusalem
  6. David, directed by God, smites the Philistines at Baal-perazim
  7. And again at the mulberry trees

2 Samuel 6: The Ark Is Brought to Jerusalem

  1. David fetches the ark from Kirjath Jearim on a new cart,
  2. Uzzah is smitten at Perez Uzzah
  3. God blesses Obed-Edom for the ark
  4. David brings the ark into Zion with sacrifices, and dances before it;
  5. for which Michal despises him
  6. He places it in a tabernacle with great joy and feasting
  7. Michal, reproving David for his joy, is childless to her death

2 Samuel 7: David Plans a Temple; David’s Prayer

  1. Nathan, first approving the purpose of David to build God a house
  2. After by the word of God forbids him
  3. God promises him benefits and blessings in his seed
  4. David’s prayer and thanksgiving

2 Samuel 8: David Defeats the Philistines, Moabites, Syrians

  1. David subdues the Philistines and the Moabites
  2. He smites Hadadezer, and the Syrians
  3. Toi sends Joram with presents to bless him
  4. David dedicates the presents and the spoil to God
  5. He puts garrisons in Edom
  6. David’s officers

2 Samuel 9: David asks Ziba to bring Mephibosheth

  1. David by Ziba sends for Mephibosheth
  2. For Jonathan’s sake he restores to him all that was Saul’s
  3. He makes Ziba his farmer

2 Samuel 10: David Defeats Ammon and Aram

  1. David’s messengers, sent to comfort Hanun are villainously treated
  2. The Ammonites, strengthened by the Syrians, overcome by Joab and Abishai
  3. Shobach, the commander of Hadadezer’s forces, is slain by David

2 Samuel 11: David and Bathsheba

  1. While Joab besieges Rabbah, David commits adultery with Bathsheba
  2. Uriah, sent for by David to cover the adultery, would not go home.
  3. He carries to Joab the letter of his death
  4. Joab sends the news thereof to David
  5. David takes Bathsheba as his wife

2 Samuel 12: Nathan Rebukes David; Solomon Born

  1. Nathan’s parable of the ewe lamb causes David to be his own judge.
  2. David, reproved by Nathan, confesses his sin, and is pardoned
  3. David mourns and prays for the child while it lives
  4. Solomon is born, and named Jedidiah
  5. David takes Rabbah, and tortures the people thereof

2 Samuel 13: Amnon and Tamar; Amnom Killed by Absalom

  1. Amnon loving Tamar, by Jonadab’s counsel feigning himself sick, ravishes her.
  2. He hates her, and shamefully turns her away
  3. Absalom entertains her, and conceals his purpose
  4. At a sheep-shearing among all the king’s sons, he kills Amnon
  5. David grieving at the news, is comforted by Jonadab
  6. Absalom flies to Talmai at Geshur

2 Samuel 14: The Widow of Tekoa; Absalom Recalled

  1. Joab, suborning a widow of Tekoah to incline the king’s heart to fetch Absalom,
  2. brings him home to Jerusalem
  3. Absalom’s beauty, hair, and children
  4. After two years, Absalom is brought into the king’s presence by Joab

2 Samuel 15: Absalom’s Conspiracy; David Flees Jerusalem

  1. Absalom, by fair speeches and courtesies, steals the hearts of Israel.
  2. By pretense of a vow, he obtains leave to go to Hebron
  3. He makes there a great conspiracy
  4. David upon the news flees from Jerusalem
  5. Ittai will leave him
  6. Zadok and Abiathar are sent back with the ark
  7. David and his company go up mount Olivet weeping,
  8. He curses Ahithophel’s counsel
  9. Hushai is sent back with instructions

 

2 Samuel 16: David and Ziba; Shimei Curses David; Absalom Enters Jerusalem

  1. Ziba, by presents and false suggestions, obtains his master’s inheritance
  2. At Bahurim, Shimei curses David
  3. David with patience abstains, and restrains others, from revenge
  4. Hushai insinuates himself into Absalom’s counsel
  5. Ahithophel’s counsel

2 Samuel 17: Hushai’s Warning Saves David

  1. Ahithophel’s counsel is overthrown by Hushai’s
  2. Secret intelligence is sent unto David
  3. Ahithophel hangs himself
  4. Amasa is made captain
  5. David at Mahanaim is furnished with provisions

2 Samuel 18: Absalom Slain by Joab; David Mourns

  1. David viewing the armies in their march gives them charge of Absalom
  2. The Israelites are sorely smitten in the wood of ephraim
  3. Absalom, hanging in an oak is slain by Joab, and cast into a pit
  4. Absalom’s place
  5. Ahimaaz and Cushi bring tidings to David
  6. David mourns for Absalom

2 Samuel 19: Joab Causes David to Cease His Mourning; David Restored

  1. Joab causes the king to cease his mourning
  2. The Israelites are earnest to bring the king back
  3. David sends to the priest to incite them of Judah
  4. Shimei is pardoned
  5. Mephibosheth excused
  6. Barzillai dismissed, and Chimham his son taken into the king’s family
  7. The Israelites expostulate with Judah for bringing home the king without them

2 Samuel 20: Sheba Rebels; Joab Kills Amasa; Revolt Ended

  1. By occasion of the quarrel, Sheba rebels in Israel
  2. David’s ten concubines are put in confinement for life
  3. Amasa, made captain over Judah, is slain by Joab
  4. Joab pursues Sheba to Abel
  5. A wise woman saves the city by Sheba’s head
  6. David’s officers

2 Samuel 21: The Gibeonites Avenged; Battles with the Philistines

  1. The three year Gibeonite famine ceases, by hanging seven of Saul’s sons.
  2. Rizpah’s kindness unto the dead
  3. David buries the bones of Saul and Jonathan in his father’s tomb
  4. Four battles against the Philistines, wherein four men of David slay four giants.

2 Samuel 22: David’s Song of Deliverance

  1. David’s psalm of thanksgiving for God’s deliverance and blessings

2 Samuel 23: David’s Last Song

  1. David, in his last words, professes his faith in God’s promises
  2. The different state of the wicked
  3. A catalogue of David’s mighty men

2 Samuel 24: The Census Taken; David Builds an Altar

  1. David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people
  2. The captains, in nine months and twenty days, gather 1,300,000 fighting men
  3. David repents, and having three plagues proposed by God, chooses pestilence
  4. After the death of 70,000, David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem
  5. David, by God’s direction, purchases Araunah’s threshing floor;
  6. and the plague stops

But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. (Hebrews 13:16)

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