Daily Bible Reading 08 April 2022

Posted on April 8, 2022 by brucesbiblepage

Daily Bible Reading: 1 Samuel 26-28

1 Samuel 28:1-7 (ESV) In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, “Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.” David said to Achish, “Very well, you shall know what your servant can do.” And Achish said to David, “Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.” Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land. The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa. When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets. Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.”

28:1–2. A day came when the Philistines resolved to make another massive assault against Israel. Whether they were encouraged to do so because of the obvious instability of the now-aged king Saul and his nation, because of David’s apparent shift of allegiance, or for some other reason, is not clear. But they felt that the time was then propitious. The result, of course, was that David found himself in a most compromising position, for he would now be called on to demonstrate his loyalty to his new lord by fighting against his own people!^[1]

^[1] Eugene H. Merrill, “1 Samuel,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 453.

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