04.27.2014 Old Testament: 2Sa 17.17-20

To read the Bible in a year, read Second Samuel 17–18 on April 27, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

Do you remember how Rahab hid the spies who came to her? You would think that since the Bible reveals how she hid them, that others looking for spies would remember what she did, but that did not happen,

Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed at En Rogel, for they dared not be seen coming into the city; so a female servant would come and tell them, and they would go and tell King David. Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom. But both of them went away quickly and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down into it. Then the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground grain on it; and the thing was not known. And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” So the woman said to them, “They have gone over the water brook.” And when they had searched and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem (2 Samuel 17.17–20).

If Absalom’s servants had remembered the lesson of Rahab, they would have considered this method of hiding spies, but good for David and his men that Absalom’s servants did not remember what they had been taught from the Bible.

Therefore, do not hesitate to use old tricks, especially ones that you have discovered in the Bible.