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1 Samuel 31:4 · BSB
31:4 Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
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…to me because it's David's response to the last actions we saw the Philistines take. You can flip back probably one leaf in your Bible to1 Samuel chapter 31, the last chapter of 1 Samuel. And look at verses 9 and 10. Here's the last action of the Philistines. Here's what they did. And now what we get…
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…claiming. As I happened by chance to be on Mount Gilboa, there was Saul leaning on his spear. Well, you can look back to the last chapter of1 Samuel, chapter 31, verse 4b, says that Saul leaned on his sword, not his spear. Now, we know more than David knows. We've heard the narrator's account. David hasn't.…
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…and ultimately to be utterly dependent on you as our Lord and King. We ask this for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, this last chapter of1 Samuel, chapter 31, is heavy and dark. I did spend quite a bit of time praying about and trying to understand what is the point of this last chapter. Why does it end…
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…And also the House of Judah have anointed me king over them. Now we'll not cover that here this evening, because you remember we saw at the end ofFirst Samuel chapter 31those wimping men of Jabish Gilead who turned into valiant men, and how David gives them a commendation here for retrieving the body of Saul and…
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First Samuel, chapter 31, First Samuel, chapter 31. It's warm in here tonight, Brian, if you don't mind grabbing that those maps for me and see if we can balance them again…
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…tonight, shows us the very, very, very beginning of Saul's actual reign. Of David's actual reign, excuse me. Not Saul, he just died. That was1 Samuel chapter 31, right? And David has just heard about that in our last chapter. He heard about Saul's death and he mourned. So here's David just having mourned…
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…He would have at least tried to give Saul a decent burial. That was what the men of Jabesh Gilead did. Again, you can read it at the end of1 Samuel chapter 31. They went and retrieved Saul's bones from the Philistine temple, where the Philistines had taken them the next day, and took them back home as an…
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…freely as Israelite blood was spilled out yesterday in their defeat? That story is found in our passage for tonight. Turn with me, if you will, to1 Samuel chapter 31. Let's read it together. Now, the Philistines were fighting against Israel. And the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on…
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