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Daily Bible Reading 12 May 2019
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Daily Bible Reading: 1 Samuel 31, 2 Samule 1, Acts 25
SABBATH
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1 Samuel 31:4 (KJV) Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
Book: 2 Samuel
Author: Unknown but not Samuel, since the events of the book take place after his death. Some suggest Abiathar the priest (15:35)
Date: Approximately 1010-970 BC, the reign of King David.
In ten words or less: David becomes Israel’s greatest king, but with major flaws.
“From Know Your Bible, published by Barbour Publishing, Inc. Used by permission”
2 Samuel 1:9-10 (KJV) He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me. So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
1:1-10. Shortly after David returned to Ziklag (cf. 1 Sam. 27:6) from his successful punitive raid against the Amalekites (2 Sam. 1:1), he was met by a runner who had returned from Gilboa with the news of the death of Saul and his sons (vv. 2-4). When pressed for details, the messenger claimed that he had come on the wounded Saul (vv. 5-6), identified himself as an Amalekite (vv. 7-8), and when urged to do so by the king had mercifully put him to death (vv. 9-10). This man’s report, differing from the account in 1 Samuel 31:3-6, was fabricated. Perhaps he called himself an Amalekite to protect Saul from the charge that he asked a fellow Israelite to do the unthinkable—to kill his own king, the Lord’s anointed (cf. 2 Sam. 1:14, 16).
The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty.
Acts 25:24-27 (KJV) And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him. Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write. For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
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