Day 89 | 2 Samuel 1–3 — Stop Eating Your Own Tail — Civil War and David’s Refusal of Vengeance | Bible in a Year

War is bad enough. Civil war is a nation eating its own tail. David executes a man who thinks killing God's anointed earns him a reward, refuses to celebrate Saul's death, and when his own commander murders a defector in an act of pure revenge, David refuses to answer blood with blood himself. Someone has to be the one who stops the cycle. It has to start with him.Here we consider vengeance, grief, restraint, national division, and the discipline required to end what violence keeps feeding.