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Pentecost Season · Proper 9 · Year B

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10

David Anointed King over All Israel

July 4, 2027

David Anointed King by the Prophet Samuel, Claude Lorrain
David Anointed King by the Prophet Samuel, Claude Lorrain, 1647Musee du Louvre
Claude gives nine-tenths of the canvas to a landscape of trees and distance, with the anointing happening small and off-centre.They anointed David king over Israel: the reading is a coronation, and Claude painted the country he was being given.Claude LorrainA French painter who spent his life in Rome inventing the ideal landscape, and whose harbours at sunrise set the standard for two hundred years.Musee du LouvreThe former royal palace of France, opened as a public museum in 1793 after the Revolution, and now the most visited museum in the world.Musee du Louvre
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelMark 6:1-13Mk 6:1-13
Epistle2 Cor. 12:2-102 Cor 12:2-10
Old Testament2 Sam. 5:1-5, 9-102 Sm 5:1-5, 9-10Alt. OTEzek. 2:1-5Ez 2:1-5
PsalterPs. 48Ps 48Alt. PsalmPs. 123Ps 123

Overview & Insights

"And David became greater and greater, for the Lord, the God of hosts, was with him." (2 Samuel 5:10)

The tribes gather at Hebron to anoint David king over all Israel; he then captures Jerusalem and makes it his stronghold, growing ever greater because the Lord is with him.

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Commentary

Working Preacher: Commentary on 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10Working Preacher: Commentary on 2 Sm 5:1-5, 9-10 Working Preacher

Lutheran lectionary commentary on David's rise to kingship for the complementary track.

Enduring Word: 2 Samuel 5Enduring Word: 2 Sm 5 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the whole chapter.

Precept Austin: 2 Samuel 5 CommentaryPrecept Austin: 2 Sm 5 Commentary Precept Austin

Detailed study gathering many commentators on David's anointing and Jerusalem.

BibleHub: Commentaries on 2 Samuel 5:1BibleHub: Commentaries on 2 Sm 5:1 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries keyed to the chapter's opening verse.

CEP: 2 Samuel 5:1-10 CommentaryCEP: 2 Sm 5:1-10 Commentary Center for Excellence in Preaching

Reformed preaching commentary on David's anointing over all Israel and Jerusalem.

Background & Word Study

BibleProject: 2 Samuel OverviewBibleProject: 2 Sm Overview BibleProject

Animated overview of the story and themes of 2 Samuel.

Sefaria: II Samuel 5 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with English and classical Jewish commentary on the chapter.

BibleHub: 2 Samuel 5 InterlinearBibleHub: 2 Sm 5 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew-English interlinear for word-level study of the chapter.

The Church Fathers

Catena: 2 Samuel 5Catena: 2 Sm 5 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on 2 Samuel 5.

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