
A Bad-Tempered Man
Read: 1 Samuel 25:1-13 Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse?” (v. 10) On the very first page of Charles Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol,

Read: 1 Samuel 25:1-13 Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse?” (v. 10) On the very first page of Charles Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol,

Read: 2 Samuel 6:12-23 [Michal] saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart. (v. 16) The book of Hebrews has good advice for

Read: 2 Samuel 3:12-21 One thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come. (v. 13) It’s

Read: 1 Samuel 19:4-18 Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” (v. 11) The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu

Read: 1 Samuel 18:22-30 Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David’s enemy continually. (v. 29) To pretend to be someone’s friend even as you plan to betray

Read: 1 Samuel 18:12-21 Saul was afraid of David because the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul. (v. 12) In the classic children’s tale Snow White and the

Read: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction. (v. 11) The Bible is one book, but it is

Read: 1 Samuel 31:1-13 Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together. (v. 6) I can’t help it: I love

Read: 1 Samuel 30:16-26 For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike. (v. 24)