What do you think was David’s greatest victory? Granted, the text of Scripture doesn’t quantify David’s successes in such a way so as to definitively say, but nonetheless, such a contemplation could help us see the uniqueness of what of we read in 2nd Samuel 1:17-27. There is, indeed, much to see in this passage including: why it’s important to sometimes look on the gloomy side and not only the bright side, a reminder of how Jonathan’s death was not a failure but an outworking of uncommon faithfulness, why David’s love for Jonathan is not to be mistaken for homosexual love, and David’s ‘Gospel-mindset’, to name a some things. May you be you edified and may Christ be treasured as you read this teaching on 2nd Samuel 1:17-27.

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