...................................................................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, April 28, 2015

Yikes

Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal. And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven. When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits. And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.-1 Samuel 13:1-7***After the Israelite elders told Samuel, the priest, prophet and judge from the tribe of Levi, to appoint a king to lead them, the Lord God told Samuel to anoint Saul to reign as king. Thus, Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, became the 1st king to reign over 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. Saul led the Israelites in battles and fought alongside his troops. During an incident against the Philistines, 2,000 selected fighters were with Saul in Michmash and 1,000 were with Saul's son Jonathan in Gibeah, Saul and Jonathan's hometown. Jonathan launched the 1st attack against the Philistines. When the Israelites saw the size of the Philistine army, they were terrified. Some of the Israelites ran and hid in places nearby, while others ran across the Jordan River to the land that their ancestors had wandered through for 40 years, and the land wherein the tribes of Reuben and Gad and 1/2 the tribe of Manasseh, including the Gileadites, received permission from Moses to make their homes. After the Philistines killed Jonathan and his siblings Abinadab (Ishui) and Malchishua (Melchishua) years later, and the self-inflicted death of Saul on the same battlefield, men from the tribe of Judah anointed David to reign as king, and 30-year-old David began to reign only over the tribe of Judah, the tribe of his birth. Notably, years earlier, Samuel had anointed David to reign, according to the command of the Lord God. Saul's son Ishbosheth (Eshbaal) reigned over the other Israelite tribes. After Ishbosheth was murdered, the Israelite elders went to David and David made a covenant with them. The elders anointed David, and 37-year-old David became the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites. Over 900 years after Solomon, the 2nd child 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, 26:28-34, 27:12-23, 32:1-42, 33:50-56, 34:13-29, 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, 5:1-6:81, 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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