Read this verse with me. See if anything unusual strikes you. I see here a glaring "absence!" "Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa." 1 Samuel 31:1, … [Continue reading]
DAVID, AN ABLE ADMINISTRATOR
His life reads like a story book. One adventure after another! And 1st Samuel chapter 30 is no exception. Here are some details. Having returned from a previous exploit, David finds his home "base" plundered by an enemy! Ziklag, near the … [Continue reading]
DAVID, AS AN ANGEL!
I realize that many people remember David, not for the goodness of his character, but for the horrid blot that is recorded against him in the Bible. Well, two blots perhaps! The Bathsheba affair ... and later the numbering the people of … [Continue reading]
DAVID, COMMUNING WITH GOD!
Based on his Psalms (73 of them specifically being written by him), David KNEW the Lord. Knew Him intimately, one might truly claim. For example, Psalm 16:8, where David wrote ... "I have set the LORD always before me." What a lifestyle! Yet … [Continue reading]
DAVID, KEPT FROM SINNING!
Her name was Abigail. She was married to a fool! A fool who had invoked David's wrath, and perhaps rightly so. David was on his way to Nabal's place to execute justice ... bluntly speaking, to kill the man. (Nabal soon dies of a … [Continue reading]
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