...................................................................LET US LEARN TOGETHER WHAT IS GOOD. Job 34:4b(NIV)................................................................Some people see the Bible as a long and boring book filled with incidents and events from the lives of ancient people who probably never existed. The biblical stories are seen as fables. In this blog, many of the situations and conversations found in the Holy Scriptures have been placed in categories that correspond to expressive sayings and phrases. Reference information, background information and links connecting the people and places are given to help you find a place to begin reading the Bible for yourself.

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

I've Obviously Got to Lie, Man, I've Obviously Got to Lie

And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth. And when Saul sent the messengers again to see David, she said, He is sick. And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster. And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?-1 Samuel 19:10-17***Michal was the youngest daughter of King Saul, the 1st king to reign over the Israelites in the Promised LandSaul did not obey the commands of the Lord God.  The Lord God rejected Saul and sent Samuel, the priest, prophet and judge who had anointed Saul, to anoint David to reign as king. The Spirit of the Lord left Saul and came upon David. David served as a musician and an armor-bearer for Saul, and killed and beheaded Goliath the gigantic Philistine, and entered into a covenant with Saul's son Jonathan. The Israelite women sang of David higher than they sang of Saul. Saul was angry, and afraid of David, and wanted to kill David. Moreover, Saul wanted others, including Jonathan, to kill David. David married Michal, and Michal helped David escape from their home. While living on the run, David married Abigail and Ahinoam. Meanwhile, Michal was given in marriage to Palti (Patiel/Phalti). After Jonathan and his 2 brothers were killed by the Philistines, and Saul's self inflicted death on the same battlefield, men from the tribe of Judah, David's birth tribe, anointed 30-year-old David, and David began to reign only over the tribe of Judah. Saul's son Ishbosheth (Eshbaaal) reigned over the other Israelite tribes. After Ishbosheth made an accusation against Saul's cousin Abner, Abner wanted to make a covenant with David. David told Abner to bring Michal to him, and David sent a message to Ishbosheth, and David and Michal were reunited. After Ishbosheth was murdered, the Israelite elders went to David and David made a covenant with them. The elders anointed David, and 37 1/2-year-old David became the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites. David and his fellow Israelites brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to the City of David from the home of Obed-edom. David was dancing before the Lord God after retrieving the ark. Michal saw David and despised David, and no children were born to David and Michal. Over 900 years after Solomon, the 2nd son born to David and Bathsheba, became the 3rd king to reign over all of the Israelites, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-11:43, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 8:1-40, 9:35-29:30, 2 Chronicles 1:1-9:31, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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