2 SAMUEL 1:1-16 Second Samuel opens with the account of a messenger coming to David and telling him that Saul and Jonathan and many others were dead. Thinking to gain David’s approval and possibly receive a reward from him, this messenger, who was an Amalekite, told David that it was...

1 SAMUEL 29 Now we can see how God delivered David from the dilemma sin had gotten him into in Gath. He must have been a troubled man when Achish told him that he and other Philistine princes were going against Israel. But when those princes came, they were alarmed...

1 SAMUEL 28:1-19 David and his men became bodyguards to Achish, king of Gath, and this soon put David in a dilemma. The Philistines decided to go against the Israelites, and David apparently could see no way out of going along and fighting against his own people. He had a...

1 SAMUEL 27 David was in very difficult circumstances because Saul was constantly hounding him. David had 600 men with him, and undoubtedly there were many families also that had to be provided for. How do you hide 600 men and their families? It is no wonder, from the human...

1 SAMUEL 26:5-14,17-21 David had taught his men two years earlier that it was not right to kill God’s anointed. But Abishai looked on this as a deliverance by God for David and thought that Saul’s life should be taken. Abishai offered to do this for David, but David refused....

1 SAMUEL 25:2-13,23-27,32-35 While David and his men had been hiding from Saul in the southern part of the land of Canaan, they were not idle. They contributed in a great measure to the peace and security of the people in that area. David, with his 600 men, was very...

1 SAMUEL 24:16-22 When Saul realized how close he had come to death and how David’s integrity had kept him from taking his life, the king said, “Thou art more righteous than I” (1 Sam. 24:17). Irritating Saul all the time was this thought: “Behold, I know well that thou...

1 SAMUEL 24:1-15 No sooner had Saul dealt with the Philistines than he turned and followed David into the wilderness of Engedi. With an army of 3,000 chosen men, Saul went into the area of “the rocks of the wild goats” (1 Sam. 24:2). When Saul decided to enter the...

1 SAMUEL 23:6-14 We learn from this chapter that people who intend evil can also speak of the Lord and His work in a very pious way. Saul was told that David had delivered Keilah, and he said, “God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in,...

1 SAMUEL 22:1-5; PSALM 34:8-22 We find in 1 Samuel 22 that David has stopped hiding among his enemies and has returned to his own land. It was during this period in his experience that he wrote Psalms 34, 57 and 142. David was God’s anointed king in exile. These...