Points To Ponder 07/05/2013

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POINTS TO PONDER:
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A thought on journaling: “You owe it to future generations to preserve the testimony of how God has helped you fulfill His purposes on earth. It is a witness that will continue to speak long after you’re in heaven. - Rick Warren
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BIBLE QUIZ: 
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Old Testament/Stories of David (II Samuel 18:8 ff)

 . . . The woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, you saw him, and why didn’t you not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle. And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom. Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and you thyself would have set yourself against me. Then Joab said, "I will not waste time here with you." So he took . . . .

What did Joab do after he got word that Absalom was hanging by his hair in an oak tree?

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