Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-460) and indexes.

Under God's judgment: 2 Samuel 1:1/16 -- A royal lament: 2 Samuel 1:17/27 -- Holy ambition: 2 Samuel 2:1/32 -- The price of peace: 2 Samuel 3:1/21 -- The prince of peace: 2 Samuel 3:22/39 -- Bloody justice, severe mercy: 2 Samuel 4:1/12 -- King and covenant: 2 Samuel 5:1/16 -- At the Lord's command: 2 Samuel 5:17/25 -- The holiness of God: 2 Samuel 6:1/11 -- Rejoicing in the Lord: 2 Samuel 6:12/19 -- Merry before the Lord: 2 Samuel 6:16/23 -- A place for my people: 2 Samuel 7:1/11 -- The Davidic covenant: 2 Samuel 7:11/17 -- None like you: 2 Samuel 7:18/29 -- David's reign of victory: 2 Samuel 8:1/18 -- Table of mercy: 2 Samuel 9:1/13 -- Strong in the Lord: 2 Samuel 10:1/19 -- David's dreadful sin: 2 Samuel 11:1/5 -- The limits of power: 2 Samuel 11:6/27 -- You are the man! 2 Samuel 12:1/15 -- Mourning for the child: 2 Samuel 12:15/31 -- A tale of false love: 2 Samuel 13:2/22 -- Vengeance is mine: 2 Samuel 13:23/39 -- The banished one restored: 2 Samuel 14:1/33 -- Absalom's rebellion: 2 Samuel 15:1/37 -- Flight from Jerusalem: 2 Samuel 16:1/23 -- Ordained to defeat: 2 Samuel 17:1/23 -- Absalom's monument: 2 Samuel 17:23/18:18 -- Absalom, O Absalom! 2 Samuel 18:19/9:8 -- Mercy enthroned: 2 Samuel 19:8/40 -- The trials of kingship: 2 Samuel 19:41/20:26 -- Vengeance for the Gibeonites: 2 Samuel 21:1/14 -- Slaying the giants: 2 Samuel 21:15/22 -- David's song of deliverance: 2 Samuel 22:1/24 -- Blessed be the rock: 2 Samuel 22:25/51 -- Like morning light: 2 Samuel 23:1/7 -- What the gospel can do: 2 Samuel 23:8/39 -- David's census: 2 Samuel 24:1/14 -- The gospel according to Samuel: 2 Samuel 7:15/25.