Samuel 2: Respect Towards The Lord

Throughout the second book of Samuel we see that David is a wise king. One clear example of this is that he doesn’t require the blood of his enemies shed, in the contrary when his servants kill his enemies in a brutal way he is smites them. For me death can mean two things one is body death and the other spiritual death. Spiritual death could be for example if they kidnap you and they take away from you some rights of liberty and emotion. For me if you take away from someone their liberty and emotions their soul is dead. Something that was used very commonly throughout this story is “and they smote him under the fifth rib.” Samuel 2 4,6 At first I didn’t really realize why under the fifth rib, but then I started searching for my fifth rib and I realized that it wan near the heart, so this meant that when they smote them under the fifth rib they hit the heart. This could also mean that their soul was killed. One theme that was clearly represented was the theme of respect. This was surely shown when “Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God” Samuel 2 6,6 and then God killed him for touching the sacred ark. This shows how sacred and important God’s ark was. Sometimes I think that as generations pass the punishments become less severe. Before people were put to death if they stole or killed but today they are just sentenced to jail that for me is better than to be dead. Sometimes I wonder if I would be in jail or in another place different if I lived in the past.