Drunk With Blood, God's Killings in the Bible by Steve Wells

Author:Steve Wells
Language: eng
Format: epub
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68. David buys a wife

with 200 Philistine

foreskins

1 Samuel 18.27

Number Killed: 200 Philistines

After David killed Goliath, Jonathan fell in love with him.

The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 1 Samuel 18.1

He loved him so much, in fact, that he stripped off all his

clothes and gave them, along with his bow and sword, to

David.

Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle. 18.4

Of course, Jonathan wasn't alone in this. Everyone loved

David because he behaved so wisely.

David ... behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in

the sight of Saul's servants. 18.5

One day when David was returning from slaughtering Philistines, the young women from all the cities of Israel came to greet him. They danced and sang a song that went like this: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. 18.7

Saul didn't like the song, though, because he, like God,

was proud of his killings. So it pissed him off when the

dancing girls praised David for killing ten times more

than him.

Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousand. 18.8

So Saul was out to get David from that day forward. Saul eyed David from that day and forward. 18.9

Anyway, the next thing you know God's evil spirit is back and is all over Saul again. And guess what he did this time: he prophesied.

The evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied. 18.10a

While Saul prophesied under the influence of God's evil spirit, "David played with his hand" and Saul tried to kill him by throwing a spear at him. Twice. But he got away.

David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will

smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice. 18.10b-11

Since Saul couldn't kill David with his spear, he figured the next best thing would be to give David his oldest daughter as a wife.

Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife. 18.17

But David refused to take her.

David said unto Saul, Who am I... that I should be son in law to the king? 18.18

So he tried another daughter, Michal, who like everyone

else "loved David." But David refused her, too.

Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. And Saul said, I will give him her... And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say ... be the king's son in law ... And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? 18.

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