First Samuel 17 ~ Second Samuel 2
A Philistine, Goliath (who is huge) challenges Israel. David goes to fight him with permission from Saul. David shoots a rock at him with a sling and then kills him with Goliath's own sword. The army wins the Philistines. David and Jonathan (Saul's son) becomes friends.
Soon, when Saul starts worrying that David will take his place of king, he keeps sending David to wars, always to return with victory. When Saul tries to kill David diretly, David runs away. While Saul was searching for David, David had the chance of killing Saul in his sleep, but doesn't. When Saul wakes up, he sees what he has done wrong.
Saul gets told by Samuel that he is to die with his sons the next day. While David fought some Philistines and won, Saul's sons were killed by the Philistines in their own war. Saul suicides. David and his people mourned for all of them. Then David goes to Hebron where he is blessed as a king. Meanwhile, Abner and Ish-bosheth were ruling the other side of the Jordan River.
In the fight between David and Goliath, I think it had much more meaning than just how you would be better off believing in God. It also shows that sometimes the small can win the big, that the young can win the old, and so on. Don't underestimate prairie dogs just because they are small and cute. They can kill you.
When David had the chance of killing Saul, he said:
"Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD’S anointed." (First Samuel 24:10)
Something about how he didn't kill him, for he was chosen as a king from God in the first place. Since God had already regretted having Saul as king and wanted another, killing Saul wouldn't have been much. Actually, I think it would have saved Jonathan too. Well, too bad.
It's cool how David goes through all this trouble (although, typically, he overcomes it all and goes on to his next trouble). It's like as if David is the hero of our comic book, and it's him against the rest of the world. I'm just saying.
A Philistine, Goliath (who is huge) challenges Israel. David goes to fight him with permission from Saul. David shoots a rock at him with a sling and then kills him with Goliath's own sword. The army wins the Philistines. David and Jonathan (Saul's son) becomes friends.Soon, when Saul starts worrying that David will take his place of king, he keeps sending David to wars, always to return with victory. When Saul tries to kill David diretly, David runs away. While Saul was searching for David, David had the chance of killing Saul in his sleep, but doesn't. When Saul wakes up, he sees what he has done wrong.
Saul gets told by Samuel that he is to die with his sons the next day. While David fought some Philistines and won, Saul's sons were killed by the Philistines in their own war. Saul suicides. David and his people mourned for all of them. Then David goes to Hebron where he is blessed as a king. Meanwhile, Abner and Ish-bosheth were ruling the other side of the Jordan River.
In the fight between David and Goliath, I think it had much more meaning than just how you would be better off believing in God. It also shows that sometimes the small can win the big, that the young can win the old, and so on. Don't underestimate prairie dogs just because they are small and cute. They can kill you.
When David had the chance of killing Saul, he said:
"Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD’S anointed." (First Samuel 24:10)
Something about how he didn't kill him, for he was chosen as a king from God in the first place. Since God had already regretted having Saul as king and wanted another, killing Saul wouldn't have been much. Actually, I think it would have saved Jonathan too. Well, too bad.
It's cool how David goes through all this trouble (although, typically, he overcomes it all and goes on to his next trouble). It's like as if David is the hero of our comic book, and it's him against the rest of the world. I'm just saying.
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