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Foreign. Hey, you're listening to A Year in the Bible. With Daily Grace. We're going to hop right into scripture. Today we are. In 1st Samuel 22:24, David has been on the run from Saul for a while. Does that continue throughout these chapters? C.J.
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yes, it does. So David just received some help from a priest named Ahimelech, and he's now on the run again. And Saul is still sort of nursing his jealousy and envy. And he realizes that this guy named Doeg the Edomite. You can say that like five times fast, I guess.
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No, I can't.
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He's the one who ended up spying on David and seeing that he ate some of the consecrated bread and that Ahimelech was helping him. Okay, so he goes to Saul and he says, hey, I saw, you know, so and so helping you know who. And Saul demands that Ahimelech and his family, the priests, die because they were helping David. So Saul's men are saying, I'm not going to reach out my hand against the Lord's anointed. Right? Going back to Hannah's song, the priests are also the Lord's anointed. And Doeg says, I'll do it, being an opportunist that he is. So he ends up killing the priests, but one escapes. Okay, and his name is Abiathar, and he'll come into play later on in Samuel. So just Abiathar is a guy that's going to be important later on in Samuel.
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All right, got a pin stuck in Abia. What happens next?
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Okay, so in 1st Samuel 23, David is still fleeing. He's running around. He goes to all these different cities. Saul will hear that he's there, and he has to run again. And this is just sort of the pattern that we're going to experience for a while. And then we get to 1st Samuel 24, and 1 Samuel 24 in 1 Samuel 25 and 1 Samuel 26 are all sort of part of a cluster of chapters. We're not going to get to those last two until tomorrow. But they're all part of sort of a similar cluster of stories where David is given an opportunity to harm somebody, and he either takes the opportunity or doesn't take the opportunity. So this is the first one of those three tests. In 1st Samuel 24, he has the opportunity to attack Saul. When Saul goes into the very cave that David's hiding in, David could have reached out his hand and snuffed out Saul and ended this whole thing and taken the throne, knowing that he's God's anointed, but he says to his servant. This is what David says to his servant. I wouldn't dare reach out my hand against the Lord's anointed. David's the anointed, but so is Saul. Right. Even though the kingship's been taken from him. So this is just a way to see that David is a man after God's own heart, and he is, well, fearful of the Lord and obeying his commands.
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Okay, so I feel like I might know where you're going, but where do we see Jesus in these chapters?
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Okay, so David does the right thing here. He could have. He even could have justified it. He could have. And he could have justified taking out Saul to take what's rightly his and what God has promised him. But he chose not to. He chose the humble route. He chose to obey God and fear God rather than man. And ultimately, this is leading us to Christ, who, despite having every reason to fight back because he was unjustly treated, despite having every reason to call down a legion of angels and destroy those who are putting up on a cross, he chose not to because he chose to obey his Father. And, I mean, that's exactly where it's headed. And I think that that's sort of the Christological interpretation floating in the background here for those of us who have the New Testament in our heads as well.
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Yeah, and I appreciate you bringing that forward. I remember reading this story just like I think I was in a yearly Bible reading plan, but in a time when I was really struggling to extend mercy to someone. And I remember just seeing David obviously extend mercy to Saul. And of course, that points me to the mercy that I've been extended in Christ. And so that's gotta be my takeaway. Here is recognizing the mercy that I've received and being encouraged to give that. The verses that came to mind were in Luke 6, 35, 37. And we know these verses. I'm just gonna pull a couple things from them, but love your enemies, do good, expecting nothing in return. Be merciful, just as your Father is also merciful. And so that's gotta be my takeaway from these verses today. All right, thank you, cj. We're gonna keep trucking through First Samuel. This is a longer book.
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Very long.
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Yeah, very long. And we've got two Samuel coming up, too. But stick with us, it's worth it. There's a lot of good things left to go in this book. All right, we'll see you back for it tomorrow.