Not poor at all

From II Samuel 7-10:

1. Although I keep mentioning the fact that David was sinning against God's commands because he was taking many wives, it is still evident that God was very important in his life. He put God first in his thoughts, so that in spite of his weakness with women, he was concerned about God not having a "palace" so to speak for the ark.

2. The part of God's prayer where it talks about how God is going to bless David is really tough to digest. It talks about how God will raise up an offspring of David's that will build a house for God's name. He then says that this offspring will have his kingdom established forever. Then it goes on to say that when he does wrong, God will punish him with the rod of men, with floggings inflicted by men. I have heard that the "kingdom established forever" bit is referring to Jesus. This may be the case, but I don't understand why it says later "when he does wrong...", as Jesus was a perfect man. Did it switch back again? How can we be sure when it is talking about which one? Or is it referring to David's throne being established forever IN HEAVEN?

3. David was quite successful in his military ventures. The bible states that "The Lord gave David victory wherever he went." Wow! What does it take to have that kind of success? Likely it is the idea of seeking the good of God first and your own good secondarily.

4. Ziba (who was Saul's servant previously) had fifteen sons and twenty servants. I think he did well for being a servant. I mean, probably most ordinary people did not even have that type of wealth. He was definitely not the poor, lowly servant that one thinks of when thinking of servants.

5. I wonder why chapter 10 talks about defeating the Ammonites separately from where it talks about all David's other military successes in chapter 8. I suppose it could be due to the timing of these occurrences, but it does not seem that these events are chronologically ordered, as earlier it already mentioned about Solomon being born to David even though we have not yet covered the story of Bathsheba.