Daily Devotion September 15, 2016 Scripture:1 Samuel 16:7 – But…
Daily Devotion September 15, 2016 Scripture:1 Samuel 16:7 – But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the…
Daily Devotion September 15, 2016 Scripture:1 Samuel 16:7 – But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the…
Harmonious vibrations (Music) from the drum, flute & harp passed over שָׁאוּל֙ Shaul in 1 שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל Shmuel 10:5-6.
[1 שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל Shmuel 10:5]
“Afterwards, you shall come to the hill of God, where there are Philistine officers, and it…
2 Samuel 18:33
The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: "O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you–O Absalom, my son, my son!"
Clearly, David…
Why is David described as ruddy in the bible? Does it mean he had red hair? Or (LOL) that he blushes a lot?
12 So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, “Arise, ano…
1 Samuel 14:49-51 tells us that:
49 Saul’s sons were Jonathan, Ishvi and Malki-Shua. The name of his older daughter was Merab, and that of the younger was Michal. 50 His wife’s name was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the command…
Acts 13:21 is usually taken to mean that Saul reigned 40 years. However, some hold that the forty years are to include Samuel’s time on the scene before Saul’s reign began. Here are the revelant verses in the NIV:
20 All this took about 4…
1 Samuel 28:19 says (my paraphrase) tomorrow you and your sons will die and "be with me". Samuel had been summoned from after death. Samuel was godly. I expected that he would have been awaiting Jesus and that Saul would have be…
Sorry, I know bible scriptures that mention God repenting, and other verses about God Never repenting has been brought up a number of times on this site in order to harmonize/reason how the said verses can be taken as a whole withOut contradicting each other:
Is there a contradiction between 1 Samuel 15:29 and 1 Samuel 15:35?
Numbers 23:19 Says God doesn’t repent, Exodus 32:14 Says He repented?
Does God have regret or not in 1st Samuel 15?
However, I wanted to bring in the use of literary devices.
1 Samuel 15:29 says that God neither lies nor repents since He is not a man.
(1 Samuel 15:29)
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. KJV, ©1769
And yet, in 1 Samuel 15:35, it says that God indeed repented (for making Saul king over Israel).
(1 Samuel 15:35)
35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he
had made Saul king over Israel. KJV, ©1769
(Numbers 23:19 (KJV))
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he
spoken, and shall he not make it good?
(Exodus 32:14 (KJV))
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Could we say that the contradiction between the aforementioned could be associated with literary devices of hyperbole, figure of speech? In other words, for God to repent or to regret something to do with his actions is so disturbing to God Himself that is why Samuel says in 1 Samuel 15:29 that God “will not lie nor repent” ?
[KJV]2 Samuel 21:
8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the…
I present the following passage as evidence of Michal’s arrogant and spiteful nature:
2 Samuel 6:16-20, New American Standard Bible (NASB)
16Then it happened as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David that Michal the daughter of S…
Saul was in his earlier reign of Israel and he was in a battle against the Philistines. His son Jonathan and his armor-bearer went into the camp of Philistines and caused a turmoil. Saul discovered it and said to Ahijah in 1 Samuel 14:18
…
1 Samuel 21:1-5 (NKJV)
1 Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech was afraid when he met David, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one is with you?” 2 So David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king ha…