{"id":300,"date":"2012-02-12T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T20:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=300"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:24:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:24:19","slug":"1-samuel-21-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/02\/12\/1-samuel-21-24\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Samuel 21-24"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the next few chapters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, until the conclusion of the book, David is fleeing from Saul<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. We begin with David seeking sanctuary in a sanctuary. Good place to go, but not for bread and weapons. However, he found both there. Edomites are descended\u00a0from Esau and are judged by God in Obadiah. We see their beginnings in Genesis 26.34-35<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> and Genesis 36<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Esau rebels against his parents and pursues Canaanite women for wives. From this, an enemy of the Israelites springs. Saul has an Edomite as one of his leading shepherds. His name was Doeg. He tells Saul that David was protected\u00a0and fed by the priests in Nob. In chapter 22 Saul orders the execution of\u00a0the priest Ahimelech’s\u00a0family because he helped David. The only person willing to carry out the order was Doeg. We will see David’s response to this later in 1 Samuel and in Psalm 52<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

David goes to Gath with a sword of Goliath who was from . . . that’s right, Gath. When David goes to the city, the people recognize him as the soon-to-be-king. He fakes insanity and is let go.<\/p>\n

In chapter 22 David is running from Saul toward the desolate cave of Adullum<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> where the outcasts of Israel join his army. He takes care of his family by sending them to the Moabites. Refer to Ruth<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0for background on the Moabites. This chapter shows the insane paranoia of Saul when he slaughters the descendants of Ahimelech\u00a0for giving David bread (1 Samuel 21). Ahimelech\u00a0gives Saul the background of David’s commitment to Saul. Saul still rejects David and kills Ahimelech’s\u00a0family by the hand of Doeg. One, as always, escapes. His name is Abiathar. He proved faithful to David until David died. He was his high priest (Abiathar was the fourth generation from Eli).<\/p>\n

Chapter 23 provides accounts of the relentless pursuit of Saul to kill David and David’s elude him. David stays in the wilderness of En-gedi<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> during these days (cf. En-gedi<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> and another En-gedi<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). As a bit of relief, David is introduced\u00a0to Abiathar\u00a0and Jonathan pledges his loyalty to David. It is strange that Saul could not find David but Jonathan could. When David wants to be\u00a0found, he is; when he doesn’t want to be found, he isn’t. Does this sound like God?<\/p>\n

Saul’s relentless pursuit continues in chapter 24. This time David could have killed Saul. Instead, David shows his loyalty to Saul because of his loyalty to God. Saul was relieving himself. The Hebrew states: “he covered his feet.” In other words, he was “dumping a load.” Saul relents from his relentless pursuit for a while. He will continue it in chapter 26.\u00a0 Here, however, Saul acknowledges that David will be king.<\/p>\n

There are times we need to hide from those who pursue us, there are times we need to confront\u00a0those who pursue us, and the time is always that we remain\u00a0loyal to God’s Word and call in our life. Despite the circumstances, we need to remain true to His calling and purpose for us. How are you doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the next few chapters, until the conclusion of the book, David is fleeing from Saul. We begin with David seeking sanctuary in a sanctuary. Good place to go, but not for bread and weapons. However, he found both there. Edomites are descended from Esau and are judged by God in Obadiah. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,5],"tags":[47,36,42,24,116,84,31,32,115,26,340,94,50],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-1-samuel","category-daily-studies","tag-command","tag-david","tag-fear","tag-god","tag-obadiah","tag-philistines","tag-priests","tag-promises","tag-psalm","tag-remember","tag-ruth","tag-saul","tag-will-of-god","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}