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1 Samuel 14
Jonathan and the Defeat of the Philistines – my favorite Jonathan story. 😊 The Philistines and Israel are at something of a stalemate. The Philistines probably have plenty of men if they wanted to attack Saul’s camp. Verse 2 says that Saul’s “army” amounted to about 600 men, while 13:4 told us that the Philistines…
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1 Samuel 13
The timeline for these events is a little fuzzy. Back in chapter 10, Samuel gave these instructions to Saul after anointing him for the first time: “After these signs take place, do what must be done, for God is with you. Then go down to Gilgal ahead of me. I will join you there to…
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1 Samuel 11-12
First off, the bad guy in this story is named Nahash or Nachash. That’s the Hebrew word for snake. 🐍 And His Royal Highness, King Cobra, has slithered across the border of Eastern Manasseh right up to the city of Jabesh-Gilead. The men of Jabesh-Gilead immediately wave the white flag. King Nahash says, “I will…
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1 Samuel 10
☀️ The morning after the feast where Samuel has told Saul that he is about to become the most important man in Israel, Samuel takes him aside and gives him 3 signs that God has indeed chosen him to be king. 😏 All you need is a partridge in a pear tree. 🤔 Excuse me?…
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1 Samuel 8-9
There is a rhyming of ideas here. Eli was a Judge of Israel and had 2 sons that went bad when he was old. 👴🏽👳🏾♂️👳🏽♂️ Samuel was a Judge of Israel and had 2 sons that went bad when he was old. 👨🏽🦳🧔🏽🧔🏽♂️ These bad sons are part of the reason that the people come…
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1 Samuel 6-7
The Ark of the LORD made its rounds in the land of the Philistines. The mice or rats are eating up their harvests. Josephus describes the symptoms of the disease. And if it’s true, no wonder the Philistines were terrified. 😬 “…for they died of the dysentery or flux, a sore distemper, that brought death…
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1 Samuel 4-5
“Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Prov. 16:18 Guess who was boasting a couple days ago about having done 6 months of blogging without missing a single post. 😒 Uh huh. Me. 😑 And it’s not that I didn’t have time to write the post for this morning last night.…
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1 Samuel 2-3
Here’s how we’re gonna tackle chapter 2: First, we’re going to go through Hannah’s prayer, verses 1-11 and see how it matches up with the prayer of another famous biblical woman in the context of a promised child. Then we’ll look at the brief summary of Samuel’s early boyhood and Hannah’s epilogue, verses 18-21. Finally…
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1 Samuel 1
Before we dive into 1st Samuel, I’d like to say, “Congratulations!” 🎉 You have made it 1/4 of the way through the Bible. You may want to take a moment to stop and reflect on how the experience has been so far. Has it been different than you expected going in? If you’ve been reading…
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Ruth 3-4
Ruth works in the fields of Boaz from April through about the end of June. 🌾🌾🌾☀️ Ya gotta love wise old Naomi. She is biding her time for a reason. She knows that Boaz is her next of kin and kinsman redeemer. Incidentally, if anything had happened to her or Ruth, Boaz would also be…
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Ruth 1-2
“Now after the death of Samson, Eli the high priest was governor of the Israelites. Under him, when the country was afflicted with a famine, Elimelech of Bethlehem, which is a city of the tribe of Judah, being not able to support his family under so sore a distress, took with him Naomi his wife,…
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Judges 20-21
We have at last come to the end of the book of Judges. There are actually 2 more Judges of Israel yet to come, but those stories come later this week. We have made it through some very dark chapters. Tomorrow the sun will rise upon the lovely, redemptive story of Ruth. 🥰 Today’s chapters…
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