Thoughts from my personal time with God.
They said to him, “This is your chance! The Lord has told you that he would put your enemy in your power and you could do to him whatever you wanted to.”
This was indeed the fulfillment of God’s word to David! But to what end? What would you want to do? What would you do?
…David crept over and cut off a piece of Saul’s robe without Saul’s knowing it. But
Some people from Ziph went to Saul at Gibeah and said, “David is hiding out in our territory… We know, Your Majesty, how much you want to capture him; so come to our territory, and we will make sure that you catch him.”
Never a lack of opportunists and those who would seek to ingratiate themselves to those in power (2 Samuel 1:1-10).…
1 Samuel 23:19 – 24:4 Read More »
Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, “God has put him in my power. David has trapped himself by going into a walled town with fortified gates.”
How quickly we declare what God is or is not doing when it corresponds to what we want! After years of this second guessing, I have learned to simply just do the next right thing that’s in front of me.…
1 Samuel 23:7 – 18 Read More »
The king said… to the guards…, “Kill the Lord’s priests! They conspired with David and did not tell me that he had run away, even though they knew it all along.”
For Saul, he only could see his personal interests and a world without David in it; a man consumed by hate. Beyond sad.
…Saul also had all the other inhabitants of Nob, the city of priests, put to death: men and women, children and babies, cattle, donkeys, and sheep—they were all killed.
1 Samuel 22:17 – 23:6 Read More »
Then the prophet Gad came to David and said, “Don’t stay here; go at once to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
A prophet that directs an individual – a bit exceptional, no? In any event, the model largely changed with the arrival of the Holy Spirit (Romans 12:2).
…One day Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under a tamarisk tree on a hill, with his spear in his hand, and all his officers were standing around him.
1 Samuel 22:4 – 16 Read More »
So David left, fleeing from Saul, and went to King Achish of Gath. The king’s officials said to Achish, “Isn’t this David, the king of his country? This is the man about whom the women sang, as they danced, ‘Saul has killed thousands, but David has killed tens of thousands.’”
How word spreads fast (1 Samuel 18:7)! Interesting that the Philistines thought that David was king.…
1 Samuel 21:12 – 22:3 Read More »
David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.
And so it begins… This part of David’s life – on the run – will give birth to the Psalms, much in the in the same way that Job’s life mired in his own grief gave birth to the book in his name. Thank you, Father, for these absolute gems.
…David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest.
1 Samuel 21:1 – 11 Read More »
Saul became furious with Jonathan and said to him, “How rebellious and faithless your mother was! Now I know you are taking sides with David and are disgracing yourself and that mother of yours!“
So much for the religious facade; after all, there was no use in trying to fool his son Jonathan.
…“Don’t you realize that as long as David is alive, you will never be king of this country?
1 Samuel 20:27 – * Read More »
David replied, “…Please do me this favor, and keep the sacred promise you made to me. But if I’m guilty, kill me yourself. Why take me to your father to be killed?”
As with everything, Father, if what I’m doing is not of you, kill it. Why pursue something that will not endure?
……Jonathan said to David, “…May the Lord be with you as he was with my father!
1 Samuel 20:4 – 26 Read More »
David’s wife… took the household idol, laid it on the bed, put a pillow made of goats’ hair at its head, and put a cover over it.
Fascinating. How people looked at the world back then was deeply rooted in a “hodge podge” mix of beliefs (Genesis 35:2-4)! I wonder to what extent that’s true today? Of me?…
1 Samuel 19:8 – 20:3 Read More »