A lesson analyzing Samuel II, Chaps. 11-12, on the question of whether David and Batsheva sinned.
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so tonight the source material for tonight we've got quite a few gomorrahs but it's based on samuel 2 the 11th chapter and the 12th chapter and we're going to summarize and try to get an understanding of it uh before we explain the heart of today's lesson to get everyone on an even level i'm going to tell more or less the chronicles of what happened the tales what happened in samuel the book of samuel 2 this was during king david's king david's monarchy uh book of samuel 1 is the is more about the prophet samuel and it's at the time of uh the mishkan shiloh the more the time true but this is now what we're dealing with in the book of samuel 2 we're dealing with the king david's monarchy okay we hope that the monarchy of king david comes soon to irritate the world we're going to learn a lot tonight we're going to learn this about the with hashem's help we're going to learn what it means to be a leader in israel what it means to be meshiach because king david or sages tell us that mashiach is going to have we call him on what we've referred to was by his name we said ben david the son of david will have the special characteristics characteristics of king david and what does the word meshiach means the word mashiach means king's anointed there were kings in israel that grabbed the monarchy by by power by mafia by other means okay but this from the house
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- 5:12uh the same word could be an angel or a messenger and you have to understand…
- 10:21hashem uh the to heal and the psalms they are uh protocols of king david's praise…
- 15:32nothing to do about moms or status right the moms are difficult to get the only…
- 21:21who gave your permission to swear by the king's name no you don't do that okay…
- 26:34but shiva's baby was born from the first conjugal visit of king david and batsheva together…
- 31:52the supreme court he's the highest of uh we have a court case and we don't…
- 37:43sword is on your neck you don't despair you keep on praying and that's what king…
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