2 Samuel is David’s reign in full: the political wins and the genuinely ugly personal failures, including the Bathsheba story that the rest of the book never quite recovers from. It’s also where you start to see how messy God’s chosen king can get in practice. We made it through all 24 chapters.
You’ll also see 5 episodes marked Dig Deeper below. The show’s format is an unstudied first read, reactions and all, so those episodes are where the hosts go back into a book or chapters they already covered to chase down their own questions and pick up what they missed the first time through. They’re not listener Q&A, just the hosts grading their own homework.
29 episodes (24 read-through + 5 Dig Deeper) • Chapters 1–24 (complete) • Recorded 2022
Every Episode, In Order
- 2 Samuel Chapter 1
- 2 Samuel Chapter 2
- 2 Samuel Chapter 3
- 2 Samuel Chapter 4
- 2 Samuel Chapter 5
- [Dig Deeper] 2 Samuel Chapters 1–5
- 2 Samuel Chapter 6
- 2 Samuel Chapter 7
- 2 Samuel Chapter 8
- 2 Samuel Chapter 9
- 2 Samuel Chapter 10
- [Dig Deeper] 2 Samuel Chapters 6–10
- 2 Samuel Chapter 11
- 2 Samuel Chapter 12
- 2 Samuel Chapter 13
- 2 Samuel Chapter 14
- 2 Samuel Chapter 15
- [Dig Deeper] 2 Samuel Chapters 11–15
- 2 Samuel Chapter 16
- 2 Samuel Chapter 17
- 2 Samuel Chapter 18
- 2 Samuel Chapter 19
- 2 Samuel Chapter 20
- [Dig Deeper] 2 Samuel Chapters 16–20
- 2 Samuel Chapter 21
- 2 Samuel Chapter 22
- 2 Samuel Chapter 23
- 2 Samuel Chapter 24
- [Dig Deeper] 2 Samuel Chapters 21–24
Contradictions We Found in 2 Samuel
Here are some of the contradictions we dug into in 2 Samuel (out of 32 we cataloged):
- Abiathar's Father
- Did David sin?
- Does God lie?
- Has there ever been a righteous person?
- How many children did Michal have?
- How many Philistine foreskins did David buy his first wife with?
- How many years of famine?
- Is it ok to take a census?
- Where did God kill Uzza?
- Who tempted David to number Israel?
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