Bible History - Old Testament

- 88- Holy Scripture. Another we may find in the circumstance that this incident illustrates not only God's dealings with David, ...

- 89- But Nabal received David's message with language the most insulting to an Oriental. The provocation was great, and David w ...

- 90- Wiser speech, in the highest as well as in a worldly sense, than that of Abigail can scarcely be imagined. Surely if any o ...

- 91- district - those of Ahinoam and of Abigail - David seems again to have advanced northwards from the wilderness of Paran. O ...

- 92- Noiselessly the two have removed the royal spear and the cruse from the side of Saul. They have crept back through the cam ...

- 93- CHAPTER 14 : David's Second Flight to Gath - Residence at Ziklag - Expedition of the Philistines against Israel - Saul at ...

- 94- untruthfulness. Again there was to be war between the Philistines and Israel, this time on a larger scale than any since t ...

- 95- village of Shunem (the "twain rest"). Behind and to the north of Little Hermon runs another narrow branch of the plain. On ...

- 96- or to what that interview might lead? For deep down in the breast of each living there is still, even in his despairing, t ...

- 97- The sacred narrative now turns once more to the Philistine host. The trysting-place for the contingents of the five allied ...

- 98- into the sea to the south of Gaza, two hundred of his men, who, considering the state in which they had found Ziklag, must ...

- 99- where his wanderings had been, and who had proved "his friends" by giving him help in the time of need. It may indeed have ...

- 100- CHAPTER 15 : The Battle on Mount Gilboa - Death of Saul - Rescue of the bodies by the men of Jabesh-gilead - David punish ...

- 101- Phoenician Venus), while the skull of Saul was fastened up in the great temple of Dagon. But the Philistine host had not ...

- 102- leaning upon his spear, while the Philistine chariots and horsemen were closing in around him. On perceiving him, and lea ...

- 103- Jonathan, the closing lines sounding like the last sigh over a loss too great for utterance. Peculiarly touching is the a ...

- 104- contrary, David's first act as king of Judah was to send an embassy to Jabesh-gilead to express his admiration of their n ...

- 105- have had in his mind the contingency of having to make his peace with David. Be this as it may, the provocation to actual ...

- 106- connect him with powerful families throughout the country, but prove to his subjects that he felt himself safe in his pos ...

- 107- others. After that he had entered into special negotiations with the tribe of Benjamin, which might naturally be jealous ...