Jewells of Thought

March 11, 2025

Clarity through a sleepless night. Today I finished the book I was reading. In all of my life I have never read a more concise explanation as to why King David married as many times as he did.

King David is such a charismatic figure of the Old Testament. I knew there couldn’t have been an evil bone in his body, but it was difficult to comprehend how he got to his place in history with this seemingly blight of character. I was wrong in thinking that because I wasn’t taking his perspective as God’s anointed earthly king.

There is something about these women that as an honorable man of God and chosen of God to lead his people saw in them. They needed true affection, love and respectability given to them that had been lacking in their earlier lives that needed attention. David wouldn’t be like the men who abused these women or to leave them in dire situations without his mercy being bestowed.

I am still only at the 3rd wife of David there are still more to read about. Maakah is the next book. Although I am going back to Angela Hunt’s Bathsheba, because David is different from these to different authors and different times of his life. From the fugitive lifestyle as the husband of Ahinoam he is now older with many more children Abigail and Bathsheba is added to the list as well as the young woman who becomes the last bride only to keep him warm through his older age. She was literally the hospice nurse for him until his bed became his deathbed.

David had so many layers it’s incredible what the Lord did through this man. There are only 7 mentions of Ahinoam in the Bible. King Saul’s wife had the same name a bit ironic isn’t it! I only wish there were more hard facts about this second wife of King David. I was instantly intrigued by Mesu Andrews storyline that Ahinoam was the granddaughter of Yael the Kenite who killed Sisera with the tent peg. Making Ahinoam a warrior like her with daggers and the neat blade named Eve. I was taken in by the little details she put into this historical fictional book. A read like this doesn’t take long to finish because it’s hard to put down even with knowing what was going to happen in certain situations.

God is omniscient David proves that. Once you’re a believer you’re in His Will only you decide to stay in His will by obeying or not obeying. It’s your choice and it is a choice that has to be made over and over again. It’s why reading your Bible and going to church is so important. When David and Ahinoam didn’t praise God and were in the distress of not fully obeying the recurrence of time in worship and praise they felt off. When they were obeying and praising God in worship things weren’t always easy but they felt God’s presence.

Ahinoam dealt with obedience during the whole book knowing it would ultimately mean her becoming a sister wife. Abigail was a Godly woman even in the horrible event of her marriage to a fool Nabal. She brought with her a sense of wanting to serve because God filled her heart to do so. The Lord had worked intricately in these lives to make this family into the royal first family of Israel once David took the throne. Romans 8:28 comes to mind, all things coming together for good. Yes I am paraphrasing. I don’t think this was a blessing to all couples to practice bigamy or polygamy.

David was a warrior king he spilled blood and could not build the Tabernacle because of that. His heart was for his God though and he returned to God after his mistakes when others did not like King Saul.

I am still amazed at how God uses His authors to pen provoking stories from stories I thought I knew fairly well.

I am 3 days away from surgery… I find out what time my surgery will be tomorrow and I hope I am not the last of the day!!!!!