...................................................................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. Notably, Romans 15:4 reveals: For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.(KJV) In this blog, many of the situations and conversations found in the divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible 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.

Saturday, May 09, 2020

More Plus More Because of the Lord

But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home. And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.-1 Samuel 2:18-21***Years before Samuel, the priest, prophet and judge, was born into the tribe of Levi to Elkanah and Hannah, many sons and daughters were born to Elkanah and Peninnah, Elkanah's other wife. Hannah was childless and was mocked by Peninnah. When Hannah was in Shiloh close to the tabernacle of the Lord God, Hannah prayed to the Lord God and cried and vowed that if the Lord God gave her a son she would give the son to the Lord God. Eli the priest was watching Hannah and thought Hannah was drunk. After Eli spoke to Hannah and understood Hannah's prayer, Eli spoke in prophetic agreement of Hannah's prayer, and when a son was born to Elkanah and Hannah, according to the will of the Lord God, Hannah named the child Samuel. After Samuel was weaned, Hannah took Samuel to live at the tabernacle complex in Shiloh. When Samuel was young, he heard the voice of the Lord God calling him, and Samuel told Eli all the words that the Lord God had spoken to him. When Samuel was older, Samuel explained to the Israelites the actions that must occur before the Lord God delivered the Israelites from the Philistines. After the Israelites obeyed the commands of the Lord God, Samuel prayed and cried to the Lord God and sacrificed a burnt offering to the Lord God. When Samuel was very old, and his sons Joel (Vashni) and Abiah were not obeying the commands of the Lord God, and King Nahash and his Ammonite army were preparing to attack, the Israelite elders demanded that Samuel appoint a king to lead them. Samuel prayed, and listened to the words of the Lord God, and told the Israelites all the words that he heard from the Lord God, and anointed Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, to reign as king over the Israelites in the Promised Land, according to the command of the Lord God. Samuel presented Saul to the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God, and spoke to them, recounting some of the history and disobedience of the Israelites, and telling the Israelites that he would not stop praying for them, and saying he would teach them the good and right way. At least twice, Saul did not obey the commands of the Lord God. The Lord God rejected the kingship of Saul, and the Lord God sent Samuel to anoint David, from the tribe of Judah, to reign as king. Shortly thereafter, David began serving as a musician and an armor-bearer for Saul, and David killed and beheaded Goliath the gigantic Philistine. David and Jonathan, Saul's son made a covenant. The Israelite women sang of David higher than they sang of Saul, and Saul was angry. Saul wanted to kill David, and became afraid of David, and sent David on missions to get killed, and  commanded others, including Jonathan, to kill David. Saul's daughter Michal was married to David and helped David escape from their home. David ran to Samuel in Ramah (Ramathaim), Samuel's birthplace and hometown. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that sometime before Samuel died and was buried in Ramah, and before the Philistines killed Jonathan and his brothers Malchishua and Abinadab (Ishui?), and Saul's self-inflicted death on the same battlefield, Samuel and David seemingly worked together detailing the presence of gatekeepers at the tabernacle. When David was in Hebron, according to the will of the Lord God, men from the tribe of Judah anointed 30-year-old David, and David began to reign only over the tribe of Judah. Saul's son Ishbosheth (Eshbaal) ruled over the other Israelite tribes. Sometime after Ishbosheth was murdered, the Israelite elders went to David, and David made a covenant with them. The elders anointed 37-year-old David, and David became the 2nd king to rule over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants. Over 900 years after Solomon, the 2nd child born to David and Bathsheba, became the 3rd king to rule over all of the Israelites, and 70-year-old David died, 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 12:1-32, 16:1-22 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 18:1-28, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-11:43, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 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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Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.-Deuteronomy 16:16-17
                            
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