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Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 26-29 GWT; Ch. 30-31 HCSB

Podcast Introduction

This is History Tuesday, and we’ll read 1 Samuel 26-31 I’m calling this episode “The Ill-Advised Visit.”

Comments on 1 Samuel 26 and 27

Thoughts on 1 Samuel 26 and 27

Once more, David passes on an opportunity to take out Saul, because David refuses to touch God’s anointed, even though he knows that Saul is unjustly after his blood. David knows that God has promised to give the throne to him, and he won’t force the issue by taking matters into his own hands.

Have you ever heard the phrase “God helps those who help themselves”? Wouldn’t it make sense for David to take advantage of the situation here? Well, not really. Because that phrase is not in the Bible. God gave David the promise, and it is up to God to make it come to pass. It is not up to David. 

When David shows Saul the spear and the water jug, Saul is finally convinced that David is not after him, and we have no more recorded instances that they ever saw each other again.

So what of David’s statement at the beginning of chapter 27 that “One of these days Saul will sweep me away.” David may have convinced Saul, but David doesn’t trust Saul, and he is having an episode of weak faith. If his faith was strong, he would know that there is no way God will allow Saul to harm him. 

I have known some wonderful men of God who sometimes had doubts. I have had periods in my own life where I wasn’t sure of God’s will for my life or whether I was even on God’s radar. This is a good reminder to pray for our pastors and other people in our lives, who come under attack. Our leaders, whether they be spiritual leaders or family leaders or governmental leaders often come under really intense pressure from all kinds of sources. Even those who we think are pillars of strength. In their hearts, they sometimes doubt. Pray for them. Encourage them. Lift them up.

Thoughts on 1 Samuel 28

Saul seldom fails to do the wrong thing, does he? He is terrified at the prospect of fighting the Philistines, who have gathered an army to fight Israel. Had Saul been willing to turn to God, had he truly repented of his previous sinful actions, he wouldn’t be facing the Philistines here and now, and God would be his closest ally. But now, Saul receives no comfort or guidance from the Lord. 

So Saul decides that if God won’t answer him, the next best thing is to go to see a psychic. Makes sense to me. Let’s conjure up a dead person. That’s always a good plan. Let’s conjure up a man of God. How ridiculous. 

The psychic (or witch, or medium as some translations have it) does see something or someone. She describes his appearance to Saul, who is convinced that it truly is Samuel. Now, there is nothing in the text to indicate that it is not him, and many scholars seem to believe that God allowed Samuel to really appear. Personally, I’m not so sure. Why? Because a) this practice is against God’s own law, b) we know from Luke 16 verses 19 through 31 that God does not allow the dead to communicate with the living and c) the message from this demonic spirit is meant to discourage and defeat Saul. I believe that the real Samuel would have told him to return to God, to repent, and to ask forgiveness. This demon reminds Saul of his failures, and wraps up by telling Saul that he and his sons will be dead tomorrow. 

This, by the way, is one of Satan’s favorite ploys. He loves to remind us of our failures, of our sins. Even sins that we have already taken to God and turned from. Sins that we have asked forgiveness for.  1 John 1:9 tells us that if we confess our sins, God will forgive us. Psalm 103:12 tells us that God removes our sins from us as far as the east is from the west.

But Satan tries to dredge them back up and rub our nose in them. He wants us to feel defeated and unworthy to do anything for God. 

Satan is a liar and a cheater and a thief. Don’t listen to him, and don’t ever put yourself in the position Saul put himself in here by voluntarily seeking him out. That would be the epitome of foolishness.

So a believer should never have anything to do with the occult. That includes horoscopes, tarot cards, fortune tellers, Ouija boards, and so on. Stay away from them. They are not harmless diversions. They are dangerous, and they are forbidden by God.

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1 Samuel 26-31: The Ill-Advised Visit (LSOYB S13E108)

[TEASER – 0:00]
Can you think of anything more ridiculous?

[INTRO S13E108 – 0:10]
This is the Lifespring One Year Bible coming to you from Riverside, California, and podcasting since 2004, I’m your OG Godcaster, Steve Webb. This is a daily podcast where we’ll read through the entire Bible in a year and it’s History Tuesday. We’ll read 1 Samuel 26 through 31. I’m calling this episode “The Ill-Advised Visit.”

Before we read, let’s pray.

Our heavenly Father, we thank you so much for your word, and we thank you, Lord, for making yourself known to us through it. I pray, Lord, that as we read today, you would teach us. I pray this in Jesus’ name, amen.

Okay, let’s begin.

[1 SAMUEL 26 (GWT) – 0:51]
1 Samuel, chapter 26.

(1) The people of Ziph came to Saul at Gibeah. “David is hiding at the hill of Hachilah near Jeshimon,” they said.

(2) Saul went to the desert of Ziph, taking with him 3,000 of Israel’s best-trained men to search for David. (3) Saul camped by the road at the hill of Hachilah near Jeshimon, but David stayed in the desert. When he realized Saul had come to the desert for him, (4) David sent spies to confirm that Saul had arrived.

(5) Then David went to the place where Saul had camped. David saw the place where Saul and Ner’s son Abner, the commander of the army, were lying. Saul was lying in the camp, and the troops were camped around him.

(6) David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai, who was Zeruiah’s son and Joab’s brother, “Who will go with me to Saul in the camp?”

Abishai answered, “I’ll go with you.”

(7) So David and Abishai went among Saul’s troops that night. Saul was lying asleep inside the camp with his spear stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the soldiers were lying around him. (8) Abishai said to David, “Today God has turned your enemy over to you. Please let me nail him to the ground with one stab of the spear. I won’t have to do it twice!”

(9) “Don’t kill him!” David told Abishai. “No one has ever attacked the Lord’s anointed king and remained free of guilt. (10) I solemnly swear, as the Lord lives,” David added, “the Lord will strike him. Either his time will come when he’ll die naturally, or he’ll go into battle and be swept away. (11) It would be unthinkable for me to attack the Lord’s anointed king. But please take that spear near his head and that jar of water, and let’s go.”

(12) David took the spear and the jar of water near Saul’s head, and they left. All of them were asleep. No one saw them, knew about it, or woke up. The Lord had made them fall into a deep sleep.

(13) David went over to the other side and stood on top of the hill some distance away. (There was a wide space between them.) (14) Then David called to the troops and to Ner’s son Abner. “Won’t you answer, Abner?” he asked.

“Who is calling the king?” Abner asked.

(15) David asked Abner, “Aren’t you a man? Is there anyone like you in Israel? Then why didn’t you guard your master, the king? Someone came to kill His Royal Majesty. (16) What you’ve done isn’t good. I solemnly swear, as the Lord lives, you are a dead man. You didn’t guard your master, the Lord’s anointed king. Look at the king’s spear and the jar of water that were near his head.”

(17) Saul recognized David’s voice. “Is that your voice, my servant David?” he asked.

“It is my voice, Your Royal Majesty,” David answered. (18) “Why are you pursuing me?” he added. “What have I done? What crime have I committed? (19) Your Majesty, please listen to my words. If the Lord has turned you against me, let him be satisfied with an offering. But if mere mortals have turned you against me, let them be cursed by the Lord. They have prevented me from having a share of the Lord’s inheritance. ‘Go and serve other gods,’ they tell me. (20) Don’t let my blood fall to the ground, away from the Lord’s presence. The king of Israel has come to search for one flea like someone hunting a partridge in the hills.”

(21) “My servant David,” Saul said, “I have sinned. Come back. I will not harm you again, because you valued my life today. I’ve acted like a fool and made a terrible mistake.”

(22) David responded, “Here’s the king’s spear. One of the young men should come over and get it. (23) The Lord will reward any person who is righteous and faithful. The Lord handed you over to me today, but I refused to attack the Lord’s anointed king. (24) As I placed great value on your life today, may the Lord place great value on my life and rescue me from all trouble.”

(25) Then Saul said, “Blessed are you, my servant David. You will accomplish many things and certainly will succeed.”

So David went his way, while Saul returned home.

[1 SAMUEL 27 (GWT) – 4:49]
1 Samuel, chapter 27.

(1) David said to himself, “One of these days Saul will sweep me away. The best thing for me to do is to make sure that I escape to Philistine territory. Then Saul will give up looking all over Israel for me, and I’ll escape from him.” (2) So David went with his 600 men to King Achish of Gath, Moach’s son. (3) David and his men stayed with Achish in Gath. Each one had his family, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail (who had been Nabal’s wife) from Carmel. (4) When Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, he didn’t search for him anymore.

(5) David said to Achish, “If you will permit me, let me have a place in one of the outlying towns so that I can live there. Why should I live in the royal city with you?” (6) So Achish immediately gave him Ziklag. (Which is why Ziklag still belongs to the kings of Judah today.)

(7) David stayed in Philistine territory for one year and four months. (8) Then David and his men went to raid the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They lived in the territory which extends from Telaim to Shur and Egypt.) (9) Whenever David attacked the territory, he left no man or woman alive. He also took sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and returned to Achish.

(10) Achish would ask, “Whom did you raid today?” 

And David would answer, “the Negev in Judah,” or “the portion of the Negev where the descendants of Jerahmeel live,” or “the portion of the Negev where the Kenites live.” (11) He did not bring a single man or woman back to Gath alive. He thought, “They could tell Achish what I really did.” This was his practice as long as he lived in Philistine territory. (12) And Achish believed David. Achish thought, “He has definitely made his own people in Israel despise him. He’ll be my servant from now on.”

[1 SAMUEL 28 (GWT) – 6:39]
1 Samuel, chapter 28.

(1) At that time the Philistines had gathered their army to fight against Israel. Then Achish said to David, “You need to know that you and your men will be going with me into battle.”

(2) “Very well,” David responded to Achish, “you will then know what I can do.”

“Very well,” Achish told David, “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”

(3) Meanwhile, Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in his hometown Ramah. (Saul had rid the land of mediums and psychics.)

(4) The Philistines assembled and camped in Shunem. Saul also assembled the whole Israelite army, and they camped at Gilboa. (5) When Saul looked at the Philistine army, he was very afraid—terrified. (6) He prayed to the Lord, but the Lord didn’t answer him through dreams, the Urim, or prophets. (7) Saul told his officers, “Find me a woman who conjures up the dead. Then I’ll go to her and ask for her services.”

His officers told him, “There is a woman at Endor who conjures up the dead.”

(8) After disguising himself by putting on other clothes, Saul left with two men and came to the woman that night. He said to her, “Please consult with a dead person for me. Conjure up the person I request.”

(9) The woman told him, “You know that Saul rid the land of mediums and psychics. Why are you trying to trap me and have me killed?”

(10) But Saul took an oath in the Lord’s name, “I solemnly swear, as the Lord lives, you will not be harmed if you do this.”

(11) “Whom should I conjure up for you?” the woman asked.

“Conjure up Samuel for me,” he answered.

(12) When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out loudly and asked, “Why did you deceive me? You’re Saul!”

(13) “Don’t be afraid,” the king said to her. “What do you see?”

“I see a god rising from the ground,” the woman answered.

(14) “In what form?” he asked her.

She answered, “An old man is coming up, and he’s wearing a robe.” Then Saul knew it was Samuel. Saul knelt down with his face touching the ground.

(15) Samuel asked Saul, “Why did you disturb me by conjuring me up?”

Saul answered, “I’m in serious trouble. The Philistines are at war with me, and God has turned against me and doesn’t answer me anymore—either by the prophets or in dreams. So I’ve called on you to tell me what to do.”

(16) Samuel said, “Why are you asking me when the Lord has turned against you and become your enemy? (17) The Lord has done to you exactly what he spoke through me: The Lord has torn the kingship out of your hands and given it to your fellow Israelite David. (18) The Lord is doing this to you today because you didn’t listen to him or unleash his burning anger on Amalek. (19) For the same reasons the Lord will hand you and Israel over to the Philistines. Tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. And then the Lord will hand Israel’s army over to the Philistines.”

(20) Immediately, Saul fell flat on the ground. He was frightened by Samuel’s words. He also had no strength left, because he hadn’t eaten anything all day or night. (21) The woman came over to Saul and saw that he was terrified. “I listened to you,” she told him, “and I took my life in my hands when I did what you told me to do. (22) Now please listen to me. I will serve you something to eat. Eat it so that you will have strength when you leave.”

(23) But he refused. “I don’t want to eat,” he said. Nevertheless, his officers and the woman kept urging him until he listened to them. So he got up from the ground and sat on the bed.

(24) The woman immediately butchered a fattened calf that she owned. She took flour, kneaded it, and baked some unleavened bread. (25) Then she served it to Saul and his officers. They ate and left that same night.

[1 SAMUEL 29 (GWT) – 10:20]
1 Samuel, chapter 29.

(1) The Philistines assembled their whole army at Aphek, and Israel camped at the spring in Jezreel. (2) The Philistine leaders were marching by with their companies and regiments. David and his men were marching in the rear with Achish.

(3) The Philistine officers asked, “What are these Hebrews doing here?”

Achish asked the Philistine officers, “Isn’t this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me now for a year or two? I’ve found nothing wrong with him from the day he defected until now.”

(4) But the Philistine officers were angry with Achish. “Send the man back,” the Philistine officers told him. “Return him to the place you assigned him. He shouldn’t go with us into battle. He shouldn’t be allowed to become our enemy during the battle. Is this man going to try to regain his master’s favor? He’ll do it with the lives of our men! (5) Isn’t this David of whom people sing in dances:

‘Saul has defeated thousands
but David tens of thousands’?”

(6) Then Achish called David and told him, “I solemnly swear, as the Lord lives, you are a dependable man. I consider your campaigning with me a good thing, because I’ve never found anything wrong with you from the day you came to me until now. But the rulers don’t approve of you. (7) So leave peaceably without doing anything to displease the Philistine rulers.”

(8) “What have I done?” David asked Achish. “What have you learned about me from the time I came to you until now? Why shouldn’t I fight your enemies, Your Majesty?”

(9) Achish answered David, “I admit that in my judgment you’re as good as God’s Messenger. However, the Philistine officers said, ‘He shouldn’t go into battle with us.’ (10) Get up early in the morning with Saul’s servants who came with you, and go to the place I have assigned to you. Don’t worry about the unkind words, because I still approve of you. Get up in the morning, and leave when it’s light.”

(11) Early the next morning David and his men returned to Philistine territory, while the Philistines went to Jezreel.

[1 SAMUEL 30 (HSCB) – 12:21]
1 Samuel, chapter 30.

(1) David and his men arrived in Ziklag on the third day. The Amalekites had raided the Negev and attacked and burned down Ziklag. (2) They also had kidnapped the women and everyone in it from the youngest to the oldest. They had killed no one but had carried them off as they went on their way.

(3) When David and his men arrived at the town, they found it burned down. Their wives, sons, and daughters had been kidnapped. (4) David and the troops with him wept loudly until they had no strength left to weep. (5) David’s two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite, had also been kidnapped. (6) David was in a difficult position because the troops talked about stoning him, for they were all very bitter over the loss of their sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God.

(7) David said to Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought it to him, (8) and David asked the Lord: “Should I pursue these raiders? Will I overtake them? ”

The Lord replied to him, “Pursue them, for you will certainly overtake them and rescue the people.”

(9) David and the 600 men with him went as far as the Wadi Besor, where 200 men who were to remain behind would stop. (10) They stopped because they were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor. David and 400 of the men continued in pursuit.

(11) They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. They gave him some bread to eat and water to drink. (12) Then they gave him some pressed figs and two clusters of raisins. After he ate he revived, for he hadn’t eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

(13) Then David said to him, “Who do you belong to? Where are you from? ”

“I’m an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite man,” he said. “My master abandoned me when I got sick three days ago. (14) We raided the south country of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the south country of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”

(15) David then asked him, “Will you lead me to these raiders?”

He said, “Swear to me by God that you won’t kill me or turn me over to my master, and I will lead you to them.”

(16) So he led him, and there were the Amalekites, spread out over the entire area, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah. (17) David slaughtered them from twilight until the evening of the next day. None of them escaped, except 400 young men who got on camels and fled.

(18) David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken; he also rescued his two wives. (19) Nothing of theirs was missing from the youngest to the oldest, including the sons and daughters, of all the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David got everything back. (20) He took all the sheep and cattle, which were driven ahead of the other livestock, and the people shouted, “This is David’s plunder! ”

(21) When David came to the 200 men who had been too exhausted to go with him and had been left at the Wadi Besor, they came out to meet him and to meet the troops with him. When David approached the men, he greeted them, (22) but all the corrupt and worthless men among those who had gone with David argued, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give any of the plunder we recovered to them except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”

(23) But David said, “My brothers, you must not do this with what the Lord has given us. He protected us and handed over to us the raiders who came against us. (24) Who can agree to your proposal? The share of the one who goes into battle is to be the same as the share of the one who remains with the supplies. They will share equally.” (25) And it has been so from that day forward. David established this policy as a law and as an ordinance for Israel and it continues to this very day.

(26) When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of his plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the Lord’s enemies.” (27) He sent gifts to those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negev, and in Jattir; (28) to those in Aroer, in Siphmoth, and in Eshtemoa; (29) to those in Racal, in the towns of the Jerahmeelites, and in the towns of the Kenites; (30) to those in Hormah, in Bor-ashan, and in Athach; (31) to those in Hebron, and to those in all the places where David and his men had roamed.

[1 SAMUEL 31 (HCSB) – 16:38]
1 Samuel, chapter 31.

(1) The Philistines fought against Israel, and Israel’s men fled from them. Many were killed on Mount Gilboa. (2) The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons and killed his sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua. (3) When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers caught up with him and severely wounded him. (4) Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me.” But his armor-bearer would not do it because he was terrified. Then Saul took his sword and fell on it. (5) When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his own sword and died with him. (6) So on that day, Saul died together with his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men.

(7) When the men of Israel on the other side of the valley and on the other side of the Jordan saw that Israel’s men had run away and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled. So the Philistines came and settled in them.

(8) The next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons dead on Mount Gilboa. (9) They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to spread the good news in the temples of their idols and among the people. (10) Then they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

(11) When the residents of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, (12) all their brave men set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there. (13) Afterward, they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

[COMMENTARY – 18:28]
Well, today, Beloved, I have comments on chapters 26 and 27. In chapter 26, once more, David passes on an opportunity to take out Saul because David refuses to touch God’s anointed, even though he knows that Saul is unjustly after his blood. David knows that God has promised to give the throne to him, and he won’t force the issue by taking matters into his own hands.

Have you ever heard the phrase “God helps those who help themselves”? Wouldn’t it make sense for David to take advantage of the situation here? Well, not really. Because that phrase is not in the Bible. God gave David the promise, and it is up to God to make it come to pass. It is not up to David.

So, when David shows Saul the spear and the water jug, Saul is finally convinced that David is not after him. And we have no more recorded instances that they ever saw each other again.

So what of David’s statement at the beginning of chapter 27 that “One of these days Saul will sweep me away.” David may have convinced Saul, but David doesn’t trust Saul, and he’s having an episode of weak faith. If his faith was strong, he would know that there is no way God would allow Saul to harm him.

Beloved, I have known some wonderful men of God who sometimes had doubts. I’ve had periods in my own life where I wasn’t sure of God’s will for my life or whether I was even on God’s radar. This is a good reminder to pray for our pastors and other people in our lives who come under attack. Our leaders, whether they be spiritual leaders or family leaders, or governmental leaders, often come under really intense pressure from all kinds of sources. Even those who we think are just pillars of strength, I can guarantee that in their hearts, they sometimes doubt. Pray for them, encourage them, lift them up.

And now in chapter 28, Saul seems to take every opportunity to do the wrong thing, doesn’t he? He’s terrified at the prospect of fighting the Philistines who have gathered an army to fight Israel. Had Saul been willing to turn to God, had he truly repented of his previous sinful actions, he wouldn’t be facing the Philistines here and now and God would be his closest ally. But now Saul receives no comfort or guidance from the Lord.

So he decides that if God won’t answer him, the next best thing is to go to see a psychic. Makes sense to me, right? Let’s conjure up a dead person. That’s always a good plan. Let’s conjure up a man of God. Can you think of anything more ridiculous?

Well, the psychic (or witch or medium as some translations have it) does see something or someone. She describes his appearance to Saul, and he’s convinced that this truly is Samuel. Now listen, there is nothing in the text to indicate that it is not Samuel, and many scholars seem to believe that God allowed Samuel to really appear. Personally, I’m not so sure. Why? Well, because, a) this practice is against God’s own law. And, b) we know from Luke 16, verses 19 through 31, that God does not allow the dead to communicate with the living and, c) the message from this (what I believe a demonic spirit) is meant to discourage and defeat Saul. I believe that the real Samuel would have told him to return to God, to repent, and to ask forgiveness. But this apparition reminds Saul of his failures and wraps up by telling Saul that he and his sons would be dead tomorrow.

And, this, by the way, is one of Satan’s favorite ploys. He loves to remind us of our failures, of our sins, even sins that we’ve already taken to God and turned from, sins that we have asked forgiveness for. And 1 John 1:9 tells us that if we confess our sins, God will forgive us. Psalm 103, verse 12, tells us that God removes our sins from us as far as the east is from the west.

But the enemy of our souls tries to dredge them back up and rub our noses in them. He wants us to feel defeated and unworthy to do anything for God.

Remember, he is a liar and a cheater, and a thief. Don’t listen to him. And don’t ever put yourself in the position Saul put himself in here by voluntarily seeking him out. That would be the epitome of foolishness.

So a believer should never have anything to do with the occult. That includes horoscopes, tarot cards, fortune tellers, ouija boards, and so on. Stay away from them. They are not harmless diversions. They’re dangerous, and they’re forbidden by God.

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