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- In Chapter 20, we are told about the difference

between Jonathan and his father Saul!

 

- Jonathan knows God is with David!

 

- He knows he will become king!

 

- His friendship with David is more important than

becoming a king!

- Jonathan keeps assuring David that he will do

everything to protect him and to warn him whenever

possible!

 

- They make a covenant between each other so that

David will about Jonathan’s household if he dies

because of his loyal love to David!

 

- Finally Jonathan tells David to flee because Saul

wants to kill him!

 

- Here we have a good example of a father who acts

badly and a son who does the contrary!

 

- That’s what we call free will!

 


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- In chapter 21, David asks the help of a

priest Ahimelec!

 

- At first, Ahimelec is afraid!

 

- David invents a story and he asks for

some bread!

 

- He gets holy bread reserved to the priests!

 

- He also gets a sword, the sword of Goliath!

 

- And he keeps going away from Saul!

 

- A servant of Saul is there!

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  • At the end of chapter 21, David goes to the Philistines to King Aʹchish of Gath!

 

  • And to be accepted among them he acts insane!

 

  • Thus gradually David learns how to survive by playing tricks!

 

  • We can imagine how useful it will be when he becomes king!

 

  • But power corrupts!

 

  • And you start to forget your youth!

 

  • And you start to think you can do whatever you want!

 

  • And you start to forget Yah·weh!

 

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  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!

  • They used to write differently!

  • They used to speak differently!

  • They used to think differently!

  • They used to act differently!

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In Chapter 22, we see David who keeps following Yah.weh!

He goes where he is told to go by Yah.weh’s prophet!

On the contrary, Saul does according to his own will!

He keeps going away from Yah.weh!

When he is told about Ahimelec, he wants him and all the priests of his father’s house to be brought to him!

And he accused him of conspiracy!

He doesn’t care about what Ahimelec says!

And Saul tells his guards to kill Ahimelec and all the priests of Yah.weh!

He opposes Yah.weh, he fights Yah.weh!

And he thinks he won’t have a very bad end!

This attitude is so usual!

And then people are surprised when they have a very bad end!

How blind!

But so was Israel!

And Judah !

And mankind!

And as if it was not enough, he strikes Nob the city of the priests and destroys everything!

Men, women, children, infants and animals!

But he will pay for that and his sons too!

Yah.weh’s justice!

And Yah.weh’s day won’t be different!

Yah.weh’s justice!

It won’t be any surprise even if for the majority it will be a surprise!

But it is written everywhere in the Bible!

Always the same warning!

And they don’t listen!


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  • In Chapter 22, after the murders of the priests, one son of Ahimelec can escape and goes to David!

  • And David tells him that he will be under his protection!

  • David adds he is responsible for the murders because he saw Doeg and he knew he was going to tell Saul!

  • Thus David assumes his responsibilities!

  • He is a man of honor!

  • But he will become king!

  • And gradually he will lose this quality!

  • It is something difficult to get!

  • But when you get power, it is also easy to lose!

  • It is like accurate knowledge!

  • It is hard to get it!

  • You need to study the Bible a lot!

  • Because the Bible is multidimensional!

  • But it is difficult to understand that!

  • People usually prefer to stay at the surface!


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In Chapter 23, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah!

So David asks Yah.weh if he must fight against them!

And Yah.weh tells him to go!

But his men are afraid!

So David asks Yah.weh a second time!

And Yah.weh tells him to go!

There we can see that David tries his best to follow Yah.weh’s will!

He does not do it according to his own will!

But when he becomes king, gradually he will start to act according to his own will and not according to Yah.weh’s will!

And then he will get into big trouble!

We must not forget the example of David!


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10 hours ago, believeinHim said:

This seems like a very simplified, And easy~to~read account of the beginning of the Bible, Thanks JLG, Where did they go from Sodom, Where did they migrate to aftere that ? Never mind, I see this is continued, I was reading the stuff in bold earlier, Thanks. :thumbs_up:I am posting here so I can keep reading, Thanks. :thumbs_up:

- The title of the thread is individuals vs the majority!

- The principle is to highlight what individuals do compared to the majority!

- And in fact, the Bible is about the special relationship between faithful men and Yah.weh!

- The interest with the Bible is that you can study the same books many times and concentrate on specific aspects!

- And different books speak about the same events but with different points of view!


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Remember:

If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!

They used to write differently!

They used to speak differently!

They used to think differently!

They used to act differently!

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Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

 

Point of time (a specific day)

time period of a whole or half a day:

Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),

Sunrise to sunset

Sunset to next sunset

General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')

A year "lived a lot of days"

Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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In Chapter 23, Saul knows that David is in Keilah!

And he thinks that Yah.weh has handed him over to him because he has trapped  himself in the city!

How is it possible to think that way?

Yah.weh has rejected him!

David has always escaped his attempts to kill him!

People always make a film in their heads!

But if you don’t make Yah.weh’s will, you can forget it!

Same with mankind!

On the contrary, David asks Yah.weh what the leaders of Keilah will do and if Saul will come against him!

And Yah.weh tells him what’s going to happen!

So David leaves the city with his men and escapes!

Finally, Saul hears about David's escape so he doesn’t come against him!

Two completely different attitudes!

We should remember this episode!


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__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!

They used to write differently!

They used to speak differently!

They used to think differently!

They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

 

Point of time (a specific day)

time period of a whole or half a day:

Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),

Sunrise to sunset

Sunset to next sunset

General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')

A year "lived a lot of days"

Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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