RE-RUN : A reminiscence 3 ~ Gad's Epitaph
I love the way the book of II Samuel ends. At first glance, it seems odd. It is the end of David's story, the last two chapters of two books that recount the rollicking tales of Samuel, Saul, and David. It almost seems like who ever wrote it ... I think it was Gad ~ Gad, the seer who had been with David absolutely since David's days in the cave of Adullam, and perhaps {and I believe} since the day Samuel anointed David as the king ... "forgot" to write a conclusion. He just got to the next to the last chapter, or the chapter before the one next to the last chapter and ... got busy and never quite finished. We do not get a story of David on his death bed, we do not get a story of David handing over the kingdom to Solomon...that is in other books. We get a few stories that happened at the end of David's reign after the failed coup by Absalom, we get a final Psalm written by David, we get David's "last words" ... a very short psalm, we get a l...