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1 Samuel 22
1 Samuels 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9, 10,
11,12,
13, 14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19, 20,
21, 22,
23, 24,
25, 26,
27, 28,
29, 30,
31
1 Samuel 22:1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam:
and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down
thither to him.
2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every
one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain
over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab,
Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I
know what God will do for me.
4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the
while that David was in the hold.
5 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get
thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of
Hareth.
6 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him,
(now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand,
and all his servants were standing about him;)
7 Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites;
will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you
all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;
8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me
that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you
that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant
against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and
said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
10 And he enquired of the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the
sword of Goliath the Philistine.
11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all
his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to
the king.
12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my
lord.
13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of
Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God
for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all
thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding,
and is honourable in thine house?
15 Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the
king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for
thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.
16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy
father's house.
17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the
priests of the Lord; because their hand also is with David, and because they
knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would
not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord.
18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the
Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and
five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both
men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the
edge of the sword.
20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped,
and fled after David.
21 And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the Lord's priests.
22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was
there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the
persons of thy father's house.
23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life:
but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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