Description: David seems to “give up” running from Saul and moves to the land of the Philistines. He sees it as his only way to get out of Saul’s reach. But this also puts him in a very compromising position of having to lie!
Description: David has an opportunity to take KIng Saul’s life and end all of his own pain, but he doesn’t take it. Instead, he tries yet again to assure King Saul that he means him no harm. Even David’s own army felt he would be justified killing Saul, but he was listening to another voice. To a higher call.
Description: Saul is jealous of David and that jealousy is eating him up. He just wants David dead and out of the way. In essence he is fighting against the Lord, because the Lord doesn’t want David dead. He is to be the next King, so this is a battle that Saul CANNOT win.
Description: Desperate times calls for desperate measures! The people of Israel are willing to become slaves to the Ammonites because they feel they have no other choice. If they submit to the terms it will cost them a lot more than their freedom.
Description: Samuel was a good man, a great judge, and a godly prophet, but it appears that he lost his objectivity as a father…just as Eli had.