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Read more…Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him... 2 Sam. 12:24 ESV
David’s life played out like a melodrama. One day, in the house right next t
Read more…...but My steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. 2 Sam. 7:15 ESV
David wanted to build a temple for God, a “house”, but God refused because of the blood on David’s hands. However, God promise
Read more…Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Ther
Read more……and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD's, and He will give you into our hand. 1 Sam. 17:47 ESV
Goliath the Philistine, measuring 2.25 meters, challenged the Israelites to a duel.
Read more…And Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.” 1 Sam. 15:22 ESV
In a battle against the Amalekites
Read more…Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, “Till now the LORD has helped us.” 1 Sam. 7:12 ESV
Samuel organized a mass assembly for the whole of Israel at Mizpah. There they confessed thei
Read more…And she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 1 Sam. 4:21 ESV
When Israel started losing a battle against the Philistines, the
Read more…And the LORD came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.” 1 Sam. 3:10 ESV
Samuel was given into the Lord’s service already as a young boy and lived at the tabernacle. During that time,
Read more…But Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the LORD. 1 Sam. 1:15 ESV
Hannah was childless. In ancient times this presented serious problem
Read more…At midnight the man was startled and turned over, and behold, a woman lay at his feet! He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your servant. Spread your wings over your servant, for you are a redeemer.” Ruth 3:8-9 ESV
Naomi and Ruth, he
Read more…But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. Ruth
Read more…And he told her all his heart, and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.” J
Read more…And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor." Judg. 6:12 ESV
Gideon was threshing out wheat in a winepress, hiding it from the Midianites. In their day, the Midianites would regularly loot t
Read more…Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. Judg. 4:4-5 ES
Read more…And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve
Read more…And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled. Josh. 20:
Read more…So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland. Josh. 11:16 ESV
God promised Israel a new land, but they had to take possession
Read more…There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD heeded the voice of a man, for the LORD fought for Israel. Josh. 10:14 ESV
In his struggle to conquer the Promised Land, Joshua learned many spiritual lessons and became a great leader. In
Read more…But Joshua commanded the people, “You shall not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.” Josh. 6:10 ESV
Joshua's strategy to conquer Jericho wasn't military
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