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1551. David at Nob

1 Samuel 21:1-9

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... a particularly low ebb. 22:1–5 Adullam was a Canaanite city captured by Joshua (Josh. 12:15). It was situated halfway between Gath and Bethlehem, and its nearby caves were ideal for David’s purposes. Whether or not the decision of his parents to stay in Moab indicates that contacts remained with Ruth’s family there, Ruth being Jesse’s grandmother, is speculation. The site of David’s next stronghold cannot be identified. It is not in Judah, and therefore it seems that he did not return to Adullam ...

1552. Job’s Reply to Zophar

Job 12:1--14:22

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... —an end without hope of restoration—and turns it into a place of refuge from the anger of God! The remaining wishes he expresses in this verse are equally impossible. His desire that God could set . . . a time (Heb. khoq, i.e., provide a limit to Job’s stay in Sheol) falters with the realization that Sheol is the place from which none return. So too, then, this dashes his hope that God will remember the dead. For Job, even death seems a desired hiding place from the power of God’s anger. 14:14 The ...

1553. Elihu

Job 32:1--37:24

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... 22, stands an angel (Heb. malʾak) who serves as a mediator (melits; see the discussion on 16:20 in §58) to secure a stay of execution and pardon. Job himself envisions such a champion standing up for him in the heavens in 16:19–21. Such a ... of punishment but, since Job maintains his innocence, his charge is that his suffering is heavier than is fitting. Execution has been stayed, he has been redeemed . . . from going down to the pit. In light of the preceding verse, this perhaps indicates that Elihu ...

1554. Gethsemane

Matthew 26:36-46

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... that his heart was at the point of breaking with sorrow. The GNB aptly translates, “The sorrow in my heart is so great that it almost crushes me” (v. 38). The words reflect Psalms 42:5–6 and 43:5. To the three, Jesus says, “Wait here and stay awake with me” (Rieu). He then went a bit farther and fell prostrate in prayer. To “fall on one’s face” is a biblical expression indicating an earnest attitude of serious prayer (see Gen. 17:3; Num. 14:5). Luke adds that he was “in anguish” and that ...

1555. The Cloud Above the Tabernacle

Numbers 9:15-23

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

... . The camp was meticulous in obeying the divine guidance by way of the cloud, day or night, for one day or many days. They would camp or journey for short periods of time or for long periods of time, depending on whether the cloud moved or stayed. Their obedience was exemplary. This section indicates that the beginning of the journey is at hand, and the Priestly tradents echo the tradition of the cloud from Exodus. When the people came out of Egypt, after the first Passover, a pillar of cloud, and fire at ...

1556. Feast of Trumpets (II)

Numbers 29:1-6

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W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

... the Feast of Tabernacles are in addition to the regular daily whole burnt offerings, with accompanying grain and drink offerings. The number of bulls offered decreases in each succeeding day until, on the seventh day . . . seven bulls are offered. The numbers for the other animals stay the same. The eighth day (vv. 35–38) appears to be an addition to the Feast of Tabernacles. The offerings here are the same as those for the first and tenth days of this seventh month: one bull, one ram and seven male lambs ...

1557. Day of Atonement (III)

Numbers 29:7-11

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

1558. Feast of Tabernacles (II)

Numbers 29:12-40

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

1559. Dividing the Spoils

Numbers 31:25-54

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

... at Peor and can be seen as pure and so become servants for Israelites. With verse 19, the text begins to address one of its main concerns: purification after battle. Killing a solder or contact with a corpse brings impurity and requires a seven-day stay outside the camp. On the third and seventh days these soldiers, their captives, and their garments must be purified. Eleazar then instructs the soldiers (vv. 21–23) that gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead or other metal items of loot are to be purified ...

1560. Cities of Refuge

Numbers 35:6-34

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W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

... accused flees to the city of refuge for protection but then returns home for a hearing. If the hearing judges the killing unintentional, the killer returns to the city of refuge to stay until the death of the high priest. Should the person leave the city of refuge at any time, the avenger of blood may kill the accused. If the accused stays in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, then the person is free to return home. Central to the significance of this procedure is the concern to avoid ...

1561. David at Gath

1 Samuel 21:10-15

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

1562. David at Adullam and Mizpah

1 Samuel 22:1-5

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

1563. The End Times

Daniel 12:1-13

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... dead? Is it a bodily resurrection? Will the ones who rise live on earth or in heaven? Will the wicked rise too, or does “everlasting shame and contempt” mean that they will stay dead? If the wicked are raised, what does it mean to suffer “everlasting shame and contempt”? What actually becomes of them? Do they go to hell (i.e., some place of torment)? The text does not seem to affirm a universal resurrection, because it stipulates that “multitudes” or “many” will ...

1564. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

John 20:10-18

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J. Ramsey Michaels

... ”). The point of the words Do not hold on to me is not that Jesus’ body is intangible (in contrast to later, when he invites Thomas to touch his hands and side, v. 27) but simply that because he is on his way to the Father, he cannot stay and talk with Mary. There is time only to give her the message she must deliver to the other disciples. 20:18 Went to the disciples: Though the term “disciple” is reserved for Jesus’ male followers in John’s Gospel, the interweaving of Mary’s story with that ...

1565. Rebellion Against the Lord

Deuteronomy 1:26-46

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Christopher J. H. Wright

... such dreadful words was after the terrible golden calf apostasy at Mt. Sinai (Exod. 33:1–3). On that occasion Moses had realized only too clearly the implications of such an absence of God in their midst and told God that he would prefer to stay put in the wilderness rather than move forward without the presence of God (Exod. 33:15f.). Here, however, the people show no such awareness of the reality of their situation. The result demonstrated beyond all doubt that the only criterion of their success or ...

1566. The Completion of the Wall

Nehemiah 6:15-7:3

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... (3:9, 12). A man of integrity is, rather, “trustworthy” (REB, NJB, NJPS). 7:3 The instructions for operating the gates are by no means clear. It appears at first that there are orders about morning opening and evening closing each day, implying that they stayed closed all night. But the phrase rendered until the sun is hot more naturally refers to the heat of noon than to a morning rise in temperature. Evidently the gates were open for only half of the day, perhaps because there were not enough ...

1567. You Are Invited to a Banquet

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... the pedal to the metal, as we say, and headed straight to the airport. Before she got there, however, she ran into a traffic jam caused by a minor traffic accident. The best she could do now was to exercise patience. She tried as much as she could to stay calm but when she checked the clock she knew it was time she did something drastic. Off she drove on the shoulder of the freeway as she made her way around the traffic jam. As soon as she pulled around the obstructed traffic, she saw two officers. One was ...

1568. A Tribute to a Woman's Love

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... occurred that no one ever expected. Joseph Chan of Singapore was racing close to Lemieux when he lost control of his yacht. When Lemieux noticed him, Chan’s yacht had already capsized. Chan was struggling in the water. He was injured, barely staying afloat. Without a second thought, Lemieux abandoned the race and reached out for his fellow sportsman and brought him aboard his own boat. Unfortunately, his act of bravery and sportsmanship cost Lemieux the silver medal which had been well within his reach ...

1569. Ready for the Big Date?

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... matches wore on into the late hours, the player with the most oxygen going to his brain would have the mental advantage. So he built his chess game by building his lungs. When he defeated Spassky, many were surprised by his astonishing wit and mental staying power, especially late in the matches when both players should’ve been weary and burned out. (7) But Fischer was prepared for the test. Are you in training spiritually? Are you drawing closer to God each day? Don’t be foolish about life. Victory ...

1570. How It All Began

Luke 2:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... born there. The important thing is that it was the “City of David,” and the Messiah was prophesied to be a descendant of David. So Mary and Joseph make their way through the crush of people seeking a place in Bethlehem to stay for the night. Finding no proper place to stay, they take shelter in a stable. And while they are there, their baby is born. There in the stench and unsanitary conditions of the stable lay the babe in the manger. This was quite obviously an insignificant incident to the world of ...

1571. The Sacred Power of a Listening Heart

1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19

Sermon

King Duncan

... rarely talk,” said the wife. “I know you like to read a lot,” said the husband. “I read because we don’t talk,” said the wife. There was a pause. “And we never go out,” said the wife. “I thought you liked to stay in,” said the husband. “I only stay in because I’m waiting to go out,” said the wife. The counselor continued to take notes. “He’s also very mean to me,” said the wife. “In what way?” asked the counselor. “Well, at breakfast, three times a week for fifty-five ...

1572. The Ultimate Mountaintop Experience

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... again in the afternoon.” In fact, the sermon was aired not just twice, but nearly a dozen times over the following weeks. Because of the lockdown, not just three hundred but all 2,200 prisoners heard the gospel. Because Colson listened to Christ’s voice and stayed faithful to his task, God used that opportunity to reach prisoners who would never have dreamed of attending a chapel service. (2) It is never a mistake to listen to Christ’s voice and to obey that voice. When we hear him calling us and are ...

1573. Pop Star Madonna and the Cross

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... all things. In short, in these few words Jesus has summed up all the most helpful advice of all the self-help books ever written. People who succeed in almost anything in life deny themselves. It is true. You don’t get to be the best in life by staying in your comfort zone. You do it by working till you sweat blood. You sit at your computer or your designing board or your blueprints or your lesson plan or whatever, long after everybody else has gone home. That’s what it means in a secular sense to deny ...

1574. Simple Faith?

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

John Jamison

... Jesus from Nazareth really was, trying to determine their plan for putting an end to the obvious threat he was creating, by whatever means necessary. Is it any wonder that the next line in the story says that Jesus “immediately” went out into the wilderness and stayed for forty days? It might have been as much of an escape as anything else; a brief escape from the reality of the new world that had been created simply by his having made the decision to step forward. The story picks up again when John ...

1575. Have You Ever Screwed Up?

John 20:1-18

Sermon

John Jamison

... try to imagine the confusion in their minds as they slowly turned and walked away to go... somewhere. Mary was the only one who stayed behind. It wasn’t because she expected anything to happen. She just honestly did not know where else to go. She was as empty ... box and begin to create rules that are intended to limit freedom and life, we’re going to find that box empty. God does not stay in tombs or boxes. Anytime we try to limit God’s love, God will pop up somewhere to let us know that our limits just ...

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