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Evil spirit from God (I Samuel 16:14) [closed]
After David is anointed as king over Israel, I Samuel 16:14 says that an evil spirit from God was sent to torment Saul. Throughout the following chapters, this/these evil spirit(s) plays a rather ...
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David and Goliath: David's Reasons For Fighting
From 1 Samuel 17:
23 As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from
Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and
David heard it. 24 Whenever the ...
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Why is David's throne established by so much deceit?
This question made note that David acts in a deceitful manner towards the priest when he goes to ask for help as he flees from Saul. This isn't the only time, however, that deceit is a feature in ...
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David's Brinkmanship with the Philistines at Apheq
In I Sam 28 Achish enlists David in his forces for the coming battle between the Princes of Philistine and the Israelites in which Saul meets his end. David's words to Achish are ambiguous, leaving us ...
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Why did David and Jonathan need the arrow signal?
Just before David left Saul's service for the last time, he and Jonathan arraigned a way to communicate with one another in code:
Jonathan, out of his love for David, adjured him again, for he ...
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How did David trick Achish?
I got to this section this week and I feel like I'm missing something:
David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Gizrites, and the Amalekites—who were the inhabitants of the ...
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What does it mean that "David eluded him twice?
Shortly after Saul takes David into his service, we read:
The next day an evil spirit of God gripped Saul and he began to rave in the house, while David was playing [the lyre], as he did daily. ...
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Can we harmonize the two meetings of David and Saul?
My daily reading reached the moment when Samuel anointed David, which is followed immediately by the first meeting of Saul and David:
Now the spirit of the Lord had departed from Saul, and an evil ...
