For 23 January 2012, Monday of the third week in ordinary time, based on 2 Samuel 5:1-7,10
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, “Look, we are your bone and flesh. For some time, while Saul was king over us, it was you who led out Israel and brought it in. The LORD said to you: It is you who shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you who shall be ruler over Israel.†So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.
 The king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, “You will not come in here, even the blind and the lame will turn you backâ€â€”thinking, “David cannot come in here.†Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, which is now the city of David.
And David became greater and greater, for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
About Scott Steinkerchner, O.P.
Scott is the general editor of this site and lives in Chicago Illinois, USA, serving at the Promoter of Media for the Dominican Province of St. Albert the Great.
23 Jan 2012
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Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, “Look, we are your bone and flesh. For some time, while Saul was king over us, it was you who led out Israel and brought it in. The LORD said to you: It is you who shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you who shall be ruler over Israel.†So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.
 The king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, “You will not come in here, even the blind and the lame will turn you backâ€â€”thinking, “David cannot come in here.†Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, which is now the city of David.
And David became greater and greater, for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
About Scott Steinkerchner, O.P.
Scott is the general editor of this site and lives in Chicago Illinois, USA, serving at the Promoter of Media for the Dominican Province of St. Albert the Great.