General Abner defects to David, but it costs him his life on the same day at the hands of Joab, the commander of David's forces and the brother of the slain Asahel. One result is also that Ishbosheth is murdered by two army captains who think that they are doing David a favor.
This is a psalm of exalted praise, and a song asking God for military victory. And I thank Norm Weatherhead for reading this psalm for us today.
Yesterday at the end of Romans 11, we came to the end of the long parenthesis. God is seen as both kind and severe. He is severe toward those who refuse to believe. Belief is not something that just happens without our control. It is an act of the will to believe. That is why the stubborn disbelief of the Israelites is called 'disobedience'.
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