In Search of a King Part 19
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1 sam 22
1 David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.
2 And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
3 And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.”
4 And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
5 Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.
1 David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.
2 And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
3 And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.”
4 And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
5 Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.
1 David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.
2 And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
3 And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.”
4 And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
5 Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.
Notice David’s movements
Masada is probably the Strong Hold that the text refers.
1 Samuel 22:1-5
How did Israel’s greatest king ascend to the throne?
How did Israel’s greatest king ascend to the throne?
For God’s Anointed One the path to the throne is paved with suffering.
For God’s Anointed One the path to the throne is paved with suffering.
The writer of Samuel spends 20 chapters chronicling David’s path to the throne.
The psalms are divided up into 5 divisions or books.
Book 1 () is in large measure Davids experience during this time.
These Psalms are psalms of lament - because David is suffering.
David’s path is a dark, difficult, dangerous, even deadly path.
Israel’s greatest insider is a complete outsider.
Israel’s greatest insider is a complete outsider.
When you see David as the outsider living in caves you are reminded of Christ.
20 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
When you see David being rejected by the establishment you are reminded of Christ.
11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
john 1:11
When you see David’s path to the glory of throne was paved by suffering. You are reminded of Christ.
26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”
When you see the broken and dysfunctional gathering to David. You are reminded of Christ.
He was a friend of tax collectors and sinners.
Christ’s suffering is not evidence agains the fact he is Israel’s king, it is evidence for it.
If David suffered, if Christ suffered, what then should you expect?
If David suffered, if Christ suffered, what then should you expect?
22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
Christ’s call is not to take up your couch but take up your cross!
Christ’s call is not to take up your couch but take up your cross!
The symbol of Christianity is not a lazy-boy but a cross.
The symbol of Christianity is not a lazy-boy but a cross.
Sin inevitably leads to death.
Sin inevitably leads to death.
6 Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
7 And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, “Hear now, people of Benjamin; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,
8 that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.”
9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub,
10 and he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
11 Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king.
12 And Saul said, “Hear now, son of Ahitub.” And he answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
13 And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”
14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?
15 Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.”
16 And the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”
17 And the king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord.
18 Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.
19 And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.
Man’s ability to sin is shocking.
Man’s ability to sin is shocking.
As JC Ryle said
There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human nature. Wrong views of the disease will always bring with them wrong views of the remedy. Wrong views of the corruption of human nature will always carry with them wrong views of the grand antidote and cure of that corruption.
As it has been stated
Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.
Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.
will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.
will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.
Christ’s anointed king promises salvation to those who flee to him.
Christ’s anointed king promises salvation to those who flee to him.
20 But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
21 And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord.
22 And David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father’s house.
23 Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping.”
1 sam 22:
Saul takes life and David gives it.
Will you flee to Christ for protection and redemption?
Will you flee to Christ for protection and redemption?