Journey: Lesson 9 - The Beloved
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This is the 9th lesson of the Journey Bible Study Program. In this lesson Chapter 1 describes the manner in which David's becomes King of Judah. In Chapter 2 we learn how David became King of Israel. Then in chapter 3 we learn of the accomplishments of David and the Divine approval he receives on his way to becoming king of both Judah and Israel. Chapter 4 continues the commentary on "Dei Verbum".
Marcel Gervais
About the Author Archbishop Gervais was born in Elie Manitoba on September 21 1931. He is the ninth of fourteen children. His family came from Manitoba to the Sparta area near St. Thomas Ontario when he was just a teenager. He went to Sparta Continuation School and took his final year at Saint Joseph`s High School in St. Thomas. After high school he went to study for the priesthood at St. Peter’s Seminary in London , Ontario. He was ordained in 1958. He was sent to study in Rome. This was followed by studies at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. He returned to London to teach scripture to the seminarians at St. Peter’s Seminary. In 1974 he was asked by Bishop Emmett Carter to take over as director of the Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education. This Centre had been founded by Bishop Carter to provide a resource for adult education in the spirit of Vatican II. This Centre involved sessions of one or two weeks with many of the best scholars of the time. Students came not only from Canada and the United States but from all over the globe, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe. By the time Father Gervais became the director Divine Word Centre was already a course dominated by the study of scripture to which he added social justice. This aspect of the course of studies was presented by people from every part of the “third world”; among which were Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez and Cardinal Dery of Ghana. In 1976 the Conference of Ontario Bishops along with the Canadian conference of Religious Women approached Father Gervais to provide a written course of studies in Sacred Scripture for the Church at large, but especially for priests and religious women. This is when Fr. Gervais began to write Journey, a set of forty lessons on the Bible. He was armed with a treasure of information from all the teachers and witnesses to the faith that had lectured at Devine Word. He was assisted by a large number of enthusiastic collaborators: all the people who had made presentations at Divine Word and provided materials and a team of great assistants, also at Divine Word Centre. The work was finished just as Father Gervais was ordained an auxiliary bishop of London (1980). He subsequently was made Bishop of Sault Saint Marie Diocese, and after four years, Archbishop of Ottawa (1989). He retired in 2007, and at the time of this writing, he is enjoying retirement.
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Journey - Marcel Gervais
Journey-Lesson 9- The Beloved
by Marcel Gervais, Emeritus Archbishop of the diocese of Ottawa, Canada
Nihil Obstat: Michael T. Ryan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Imprimatur: + John M. Sherlock, Bishop of London
London, March 31, 1980
This content of this book was first published in 1977 as part of the JOURNEY Series By Guided Study Programs in the Catholic Faith and is now being republished in Smashwords by Emmaus Publications, 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 103, Ottawa,ON, K1S 5P5, Canada on Smashwords
Cover: . Samuel! Samuel!
He answered Here I am.
. 1Sam 3:4
COPYRIGHT © Guided Study Programs ln the Catholic Faith, a division of The Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education 1977. Reproduction ln whole or ln part is Prohibited.
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 David's Rise to Kingship
Chapter 2 David; King of Judah and Israel
Chapter 3 David; the Beloved of Judah and Israel
Chapter 4 Commentary on Del Verbum, number 12 (continued)
Appendix
Answer key to practice questions
Self-test
Answer key to self-test
Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Nine
About The Author
Psalm 89:1-37
A prayer on the love and faithfulness of God, shown in history by his covenant with David, and in the glory of all creation. As stable as creation itself is God's love for David. (The last verses of this psalm, vss 38-51, are a prayer of petition written for times when Jeru¬salem and its king were suffering.) Jesus, the Anointed One (Christ), fulfills the promises made to David and is the one to whom this psalm applies perfectly.
Lesson Objective To describe David, his accomplishments and qualities, and the divine approval he receives.
Introduction
In the two previous lessons we considered the efforts of the People to contend with the new problems connected with their life in the Land of Promise. The struggle to find the proper kind of Leadership occupied much of this period, in this lesson we consider the man who seems to explode into their history and takes them all by surprise. It is very difficult to describe such a man as David; there seem to be too many sides to him, too many things to say about him. There are more pages devoted to the life of David than are given to any other person in the Old Testament.
The number of popular stories and the amount of written material about David posed quite a challenge to the editors of the Books of Samuel, where his life is recounted. For example, there are at least three, possibly four, different versions of how his career got started: he is anointed by Samuel, as a young boy is called to play music to calm Saul
in his bad moods, he is the young boy who slays the giant, and there is a further possible
version of the beginning of his career as a man who rises in the ranks of Samuel's army. All of these stories relate some truth but it is no longer possible for us to know
for certain what the historical sequence of events really was.
Without attempting to resolve the problem of David's rise to power, we have chosen to begin with David coming to recognition in Saul's army
Chapter 1 David's Rise To Kingship
Section Objective To describe the manner in which David becomes