1. Who is Ziba? What did he tell King David about Mephibosheth? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Do you agree with anything Shimei said to the king? Do you disagree with anything he said to King David? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why did King David handle Shimei in the way he did? How would you have handled him? Was King David’s response to Shimei correct? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Why did Hushai need to leave King David and join Absalom? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. What advice did Ahithophel give about the concubines? How did this advice fulfill the prophecy? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Why did Absalom follow Hushai’s advice over Ahithophel’s advice in waging war against the king? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7. Even though God was judging King David, why was God still helping him? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8. How are Ahithophel’s actions and death similar to that of Judas Iscariot? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9. We see in 2 Samuel 17:29 that the people surrounding David are not these great warriors. What role, if any, did they play in this whole drama? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
10. Like King David, how does God give us grace when it looks like God is correcting us, because of something we have done? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________