She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings

1 Samuel 25:1-17

Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.

His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings—he was a Calebite.

Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing. Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them. When David’s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David’s name. Then they waited.

David’s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word. David said to his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them. Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing. Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”

Why?

Nabal is proud and mistreats others, based on his own point to look at everything. Let me not live like Nabal and look only at the income.

David shows his love and care to his neighbor, when his neighbors reap a lot, and hope they may share part of their achievement, it is reasonable.

Abigail is a good wife and smart woman, she made the right decision for her family.

How?

There are many kinds of ways to live, what kind of man I like to be? Let me be an intelligent and kind man in history.

David Spares Saul’s Life

1 Samuel 24:1-22

Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground. He said to Saul, “Why do you listen when men say, ‘David is bent on harming you’? This day you have seen with your own eyes how the Lord delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, ‘I will not lay my hand on my lord, because he is the Lord’s anointed.’ See, my father, look at this piece of your robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. See that there is nothing in my hand to indicate that I am guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I have not wronged you, but you are hunting me down to take my life. May the Lord judge between you and me. And may the Lord avenge the wrongs you have done to me, but my hand will not touch you. As the old saying goes, ‘From evildoers come evil deeds,’ so my hand will not touch you.

May the Lord reward you well for the way you treated me today. I know that you will surely be king and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hands. Now swear to me by the Lord that you will not kill off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s family.

So David gave his oath to Saul. Then Saul returned home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

Why?

David knew Saul was anointed by the Lord, so David could not kill Saul, even Saul pursued David hardly. Now Saul knew David belonged to the Lord and that he would be king of Israel in the future. So Saul asked David to swear not to kill Saul's descendants or wipe out his name from his father's family.

David is a real gentleman, who won't get an informal way to kill others and respect the anointed man by the Lord. For David fear the Lord.

How?

So we should learn from David doing the right things and obey the commands of the Lord. Fear the Lord and based on the Love, righteousness to do everything.

Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.

1 Samuel 23:14-29

David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.

And Saul’s son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this.” The two of them made a covenant before the Lord. Then Jonathan went home, but David remained at Horesh.

Saul was going along one side of the mountain, and David and his men were on the other side, hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his forces were closing in on David and his men to capture them, a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Come quickly! The Philistines are raiding the land.” Then Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why they call this place Sela Hammahlekoth. And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

Why?

God did not give David into Saul's hands, but let David suffer many difficulties and let David trust in the Lord.

Saul searched for David, but David ran faster, and for the help of the Lord Philistines came at the right time to protect David from being captured by Saul.

Jonathan knew the kingdom of Israel would be in the hands of David, so he made a covenant with David before the Lord. David remembers this covenant to protect the inheritance of Jonathan.

How?

Our God is trustworthy, usually, we easily forget the love and mercy of the Lord when we are safe and in peace.

Once again David inquired of the Lord, and the Lord answered him

1 Samuel 23:1-13

Once again David inquired of the Lord, and the Lord answered him, “Go down to Keilah, for I am going to give the Philistines into your hand.” So David and his men went to Keilah, fought the Philistines and carried off their livestock. He inflicted heavy losses on the Philistines and saved the people of Keilah. (Now Abiathar son of Ahimelek had brought the ephod down with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)

When David learned that Saul was plotting against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.” David said, “Lord, God of Israel, your servant has heard definitely that Saul plans to come to Keilah and destroy the town on account of me. Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me to him? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Lord, God of Israel, tell your servant.” And the Lord said, “He will.”

Again David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men to Saul?” And the Lord said, “They will.”

So David and his men, about six hundred in number, left Keilah and kept moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he did not go there.

Why?

David knew this war was not the war between David and Saul, it was David following the instruction of the Lord to fight with Saul. David did not fight with Saul but escaped from the flight with Saul.

Victory or failure is in the hands of the Lord, and so is the same as my servant in church and my job.

How?

May the Lord give me the word for next Sunday's church preaching service and my Job in website learning.

Saul Kills the Priests of Nob

1 Samuel 22:1-23

David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there. All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him.

From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?” So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.

But the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul’s officials, said, “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelek son of Ahitub at Nob. Ahimelek inquired of the Lord for him; he also gave him provisions and the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

Then the king ordered the guards at his side: “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.”

But the king’s officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the Lord.

The king then ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.

But one son of Ahimelek son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to join David. He told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord. Then David said to Abiathar, “That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of your whole family. Stay with me; don’t be afraid. The man who wants to kill you is trying to kill me too. You will be safe with me.”

Why?

The priest Akimelek and his whole family were killed by the hands of Doeg and Saul. But the king's officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the Lord, for they knew what was right and wrong.

The blesses the Abuathar, son of Ahimelek, who escaped to David and could be a priest of David later.

Saul committed the crime of killing the priests of the Lord.

The destination of Saul was defined when he ordered to kill the priests of the Lord. 

David asked Abiathar to stay with him, for the man seeking your life is also seeking mine. Abiathar's family died for David.

How?

May the Lord be with me and bless me with a better relationship with my wife. I failed to care about the feelings of my wife.

The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, If you want it, take it

1 Samuel 21:1-15

So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.

The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.” David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief shepherd.

David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath. So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.

Achish said to his servants, “Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me? Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?”

Why?

In this situation, David needed food and weapons, so he went to ask the priest. and he got some bread which were removed from before the Lord.

In case of the dangers, David pretended he was insane.  These difficulties are training to David to bear more heavy jobs in the future.

Here the Doeg told the priest Ahimelech helped David, then later induced Ahimelech to be killed. For evil men exist around us. 

How?

No matter what I meet today, trust in the Lord and seek the way of the Lord, the blessing of the Lord will be with me.

Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord is witness between you and m

 1 Samuel 20:24-42

Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.” But the next day, the second day of the month, David’s place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”

 “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?” Jonathan asked his father. But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David.

on that second day of the feast he did not eat, because he was grieved at his father’s shameful treatment of David.

After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together—but David wept the most.

Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever.’” Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.

Why?

Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David. So Jonathan followed the agreement with David and confirmed this information. So David and Jonathan separated and until Jonathan died they did not meet anymore.

This friendship has occurred throughout life, so having a good friend is a blessing.

How?

It is a sad story but all of this event our God knows it.