Notes: July 9, 2008 - 1 Samuel 21 & Psalm 56
Bob Feather July 9th, 2008
Meditation Points:
- “The king has commanded me a business” (1 Samuel 21:2); and “the king’s business required haste” (1 Samuel 21:8). Was David speaking about God, his King; or was he intentionally deceiving the priest?
- David and his men ate the holy shewbread (21:4-6). Jesus refers to this event (Mark 2:25-26) as an illustration that sometimes the ritual law is subsidiary to the preservation of life. Chew on this for a while.
- The only weapon available was the sword of Goliath (verse 9), which David took as he fled to Goliath’s homeland of Gath (verse10)!
- Should David have run to the enemy for refuge, or should he have stayed to face Saul? (Should Jonah have gotten on the boat leading away from Ninevah?)
- Psalm 56
- David’s complaints (vss. 1-2, 5-6) that people were against him.
- David’s confidence (vss 3-4, 7-9) that God will protect him.
- David’s praise of God (vss. 10-13) for who He is and what He does.
1 Samuel 21:2
2And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
1 Samuel 21:8
8And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.
Mark 2:25-26
25And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
26How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
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