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1 Samuel 26
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 26:1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David
hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three
thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the
way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into
the wilderness.
4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very
deed.
5 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David
beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his
host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son
of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the
camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay
sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster:
but Abner and the people lay round about him.
8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand
this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to
the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand
against the Lord's anointed, and be guiltless?
10 David said furthermore, As the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him; or his
day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
11 The Lord forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the Lord's
anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and
the cruse of water, and let us go.
12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they
gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all
asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.
13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar
off; a great space being between them:
14 And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest
thou not, Abner?
15 And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee
in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came
one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.
16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the Lord liveth, ye are worthy
to die, because ye have not kept your master, the Lord's anointed. And now see
where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And
David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what
have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his
servant. If the Lord have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an
offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the Lord;
for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the
Lord, saying, Go, serve other gods.
20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the
Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a
partridge in the mountains.
21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do
thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have
played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
22 And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the
young men come over and fetch it.
23 The Lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the
Lord delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand
against the Lord's anointed.
24 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my
life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me out of all
tribulation.
25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do
great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul
returned to his place.
• 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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