A Study on the Books of Samuel: 2 Samuel 20


This week,

  • Pray the Psalm 27 prayer over your life and over the lives of those who are in your sphere of influence.
  • Read 2 Samuel 20.
  • Take notes on the following:
    • The Life, Rebellion, and Death of Sheba the Benjamite
    • The Men of Israel Versus the Men of Judah
    • The 10 Concubines
    • Amasa, Commander of the King’s Army
    • Abishai (David’s nephew)
    • The Presence and Actions of Joab
    • The Wise Woman of Abel Beth Maacah
    • King David’s Officials and Their Posts
  • Look for A Phone Tree Bible Study Group ACTion Article later this week.


Photo Credit: ​The Tel Abel Beth Maacah Excavations

A Study on the Books of Samuel: 2 Samuel 13-19


Over the next three weeks,

  • Pray that GOD would speak life into your troubled heart. Ask that He would help you to live alive, being fully surrendered to His determined will. Draw fully from His peace, fully from His strength and fully from His goodness. Seek His counsel in all things. Request that He would liberate you from your burdens, woes, shame, guilt, unrest, and sin. Look to Him as the forgiving Redeemer that He is.

  • Read 2 Samuel 13-19.
  • Take notes on the following:
    • Tamar
    • Amnon and His Disgraceful Deed
    • Absalom: Son, Brother, Plotter
    • The Murder of Amnon
    • David’s Troubled Heart
    • Absalom Flees to Talmai of Geshur
    • The Machinations of Joab
    • The Woman of Tekoa
    • Absalom’s Return Home to Jerusalem
    • Joab’s Field
    • Absalom Bows to the King
    • Absalom in Hebron
    • David Escapes from Jerusalem
    • Ziba, Servant of Mephibosheth
    • Shimei Curses David & Throws Stones
    • The Advice of Ahithophel and Hushai
    • Hushai Warns David
    • The Woman, the Well, & the Covering
    • The Death of Ahithophel
    • The Hospitality of Shobi, Machir, & Barzillai
    • Absalom’s Defeat and Death
    • David’s Response to Absalom’s Death
    • David’s Return to Jerusalem
    • Mercy Shown (David Shows Mercy to Shimei)
    • David and Mephibosheth
    • Kindness Shown to Barzillai
    • The Quarrel About the King
  • Make a plan to select your ONE WORD for 2026. Consider all of the wisdom lessons you have learned from the study on the books of Samuel thus far, then set your mind on a positive declaration for your life.
  • Look for A Phone Tree Bible Study Group ACTion Article later this week.
  • Enjoy the holiday break.

The Phone Tree Bible Study Group’s study of 2 Samuel will resume on January 4, 2026.