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What you get in 2 Samuel Maps
- Atlas of 25 3D-style high resolution Bible maps about the stories of King David's reign in Israel
Sample original map in the 2 Samuel Bible maps
Great warrior, not-so-great dad
David the giant-killer might have been a genius on the battlefield, but he was a stinker of a dad and a cheating husband at home.
Two Samuel, illustrated with 3D-style Bible maps, tells the story of David doing what King Saul before him could only dream about:
—defeating all his neighboring enemies and securing his borders
—finally capturing Jerusalem, then making it his capital
—uniting all the tribes of Israel into a one sovereign nation.
Back home, with at least seven wives in his harem, he has sex with one of his elite soldier’s wives, Bathsheba. She gets pregnant and David sends her husband on a suicide mission. Then he marries her. The baby boy dies, but Bathsheba will later have another son who will become the next king: Solomon. He’ll kill one of his half brothers to eliminate the competition. Apparently, they weren’t close.
Rape of David’s daughter
David’s oldest son and the presumed successor, Amnon, didn’t live long enough to become king. His half-brother Absalom murdered him. He did it because Amnon raped his half sister, who was Absalom’s full sister. They were close. She would live with her brother in shame over the rape. Never married, it seems.
David found out about the rape. It made him mad. Yet he did nothing but ignore it.
So, two years later, Absalom ordered his servants to get Amnon drunk and kill him. Then Absalom left the country to live with his grandpa on his mom’s side, a king in what is now the Golan Heights.
David’s son leads a coup
David later invites him home but refuses to see him. That makes Absalom so mad that he declares himself king and drives David out of Jerusalem. When their armies meet on the battlefield, as usual, David’s men win. And they kill Absalom when they find him hanging around after the battle. He got his head stuck in a tree.
Israel’s tribal leaders had just gotten used to Absalom as king. But they grudgingly accepted David back.
Family troubles drove many of the stories in his life.
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