Bible History - Old Testament

- 48- expedition against the Philistine outpost at Michmash. As he put it, it was emphatically a deed of faith, in which he woul ...

- 49- a furrow, or more probably half the width that would be occupied in ploughing a furrow. All this time it would be impossib ...

- 50- was no doubt something religious about this rash vow. At any rate the form in which his impetuous Eastern resolve was cast ...

- 51- given up, and the campaign abruptly closed. And so ended in sorrow and disappointment what had been begun in self-willed d ...

- 52- CHAPTER 9 : The War against Amalek - Saul's Disobedience, and its Motives -Samuel commissioned to announce Saul's Rejectio ...

- 53- behind, as the dark valley to the traveler who has climbed the sunlit height, or as perhaps events and phases in our own e ...

- 54- Amalekite who fell into their hands was destroyed,^144 with the notable exception, however, of Agag,^145 their king. And a ...

- 55- terribleness of the judgment, its publicity in the sight of all Israel, who knew of his Divine call, and in whose presence ...

- 56- past, and Samuel prepared for what personally must have been the hardest duty ever laid upon him. By his direction Agag wa ...

- 57- CHAPTER 10 : Samuel Mourns for Saul - He is directed to the house of Jesse -Anointing of David - Preparation of David for ...

- 58- The narrative also affords some interesting glimpses into the history of the time. Thus we infer that Samuel had been in t ...

- 59- calling and work appears to have been, in a sense, progressive; being gradually manifested in the course of His history. B ...

- 60- Had he but listened to them, and yielded himself not temporarily but really to their influence! But he was now the old Sau ...

- 61- The words, seemingly casually spoken, were acted upon, and David was sent for to court. He came, bringing such gifts as th ...

- 62- former God-inspired courage fire Israel. The Spirit of God had departed from their leader, and his followers seemed to sha ...

- 63- back, and a spear, the metal head of which weighed about seventeen or eighteen pounds. Such was the sight which David behe ...

- 64- avocations, and when he characterized his God-inspired courage and confidence as carnal, and a delight in war and bloodshe ...

- 65- fight. But David also must speak. To the carnal confidence in his own strength which Goliath expressed, David opposed the ...

- 66- CHAPTER 11 : Saul's Jealousy, and Attempts upon David's Life - David marries Michal - Ripening of Saul's Purpose of Murder ...

- 67- to point out David as his rival. And every fresh success of David, betokening the manifest help of God, and every failure ...