Read: 2 Samuel 17:1-29; John 19:23-42; Psalm 119:129-152; Proverbs 16:12-13
Ahithophel was Absalom’s counselor. He counseled him to go immediately after David to kill him. Then he could bring his men back alive to serve Absalom. That was good advise but God didn’t want David to be caught so he turned the heart of Absalom to ask Hushai for his advise. Hushai had been David’s advisor and was secretly still on his side. He advised Absalom to wait and gather troops to go after David’s men. God turned Absalom’s heart to listen to his advise instead of Ahithophel’s. This allowed time for them to inform David to get far away. It worked and Ahithophel was so distraught that his advise wasn’t taken, he hung himself.
In John, the soldiers fulfilled scripture by casting lots for Jesus’ clothes. Jesus passed his mom to John to keep so now all his earthly possessions were distributed.
Jesus cried out he was thirsty so they brought a sponge on the stalk of the hyssop plant and lifted it to his lips. As soon as he drank it he died. Jesus was pointing them back to the days of Egypt when the Israelites took the hyssop branch and applied the blood to their doorposts.
The Passover fell on a Sabbath making it a High Sabbath. All the bodies had to be off the crosses not to make the people unclean on the Sabbath. To do this they would break the legs of those still alive. When they came to break Jesus’ legs, he was already dead to fulfill Psalm 34:20 that said none of his bones were broken.
Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus came by night and took Jesus body and laid it in Joseph’s own private tomb which was surrounded by a garden.
Righteous are you, O Lord, and your laws are right. Thank you for fulfilling all of your Word.
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