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January 16 - 1 Samuel 13 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. Sean here.
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  Thank you for tapping on play and welcoming me into your day.
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  This is a chapter, a day Bible reading.
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  And that is what we do each day in this glorious time of year.
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  Oh my goodness. I don't know what the weather is
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  like for you right now, but hard down here in southern Tasley,
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  summer is glorious. Not too hot, oh boy.
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  People in Sydney were talking about, you know, close to 40°
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  and humid. But here's Summer means mid 20s,
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  sunny days. The grass is growing.
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  There always seems to be a game of cricket to watch or play in
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  the backyard. How long?
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  Days and evenings it is just the best.
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  So I am enjoying a glorious summer and I hope that you are
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  going well, enjoying whatever this glorious planet of ours is
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  delivering to you, whether wise. But here we are and we are going
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  to continue through the story in Samuel of the new King Saul, and
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  unfortunately it all starts to go a little bit wrong.
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  But that is the way it's going to be.
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  And this, this is a time in the Bible when you and I in Sunday
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  School, if we used to go to Sunday school, would learn about
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  the Philistines. They were like the
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  quintessential bad guys facing off against God's people all the
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  time. And this is the part of the
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  Bible where we really do hear stories of Philistia and the
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  Philistines. And this is where that that
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  people starts to really kind of solidify their their place in
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  Sunday School folklore. And then we're going to get to
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  David and Goliath, which is kind of the linchpin of all of the
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  the Philistine stories. But we're not quite there yet.
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  Nope. We are just beginning to see
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  those problems. So join me as we read this
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  wonderful story hearing about God's King, how he leads his
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  people through this time as we read together.
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  First Samuel, Chapter 13. Saul was 30 years old when he
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  became king, and he reigned for 42 years.
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  Soul selected 3000 special trips from the army of Israel and sent
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  the rest of the men home. He took 2000 of the chosen men
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  with him to Michmash and the Hill Country of Bethel.
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  The other 1000 went with Saul's son Jonathan to Gibier in the
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  land of Benjamin. Soon after this, Jonathan
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  attacked and defeated the Garrison of Philistines at Giba.
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  The news spread quickly among the Philistines, so Saul blew
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  the Rams horn throughout the land, saying Hebrews hear this
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  rise up in revolt. All Israel heard the news that
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  Saul had destroyed the Philistine Garrison at Giba and
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  that the Philistines now hated the Israelites more than ever.
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  So the entire Israelite army was summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.
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  The Philistines mustered a mighty army of 3000 Chariots,
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  6000 charioteers, and as many warriors as the grains of sand
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  on the seashore. They camped at Michmash, east of
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  Beth Avon. The men of Israel saw what a
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  tight spot they were in, and because they were hard pressed
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  by the enemy, they tried to hide in caves, thickets, rocks, holes
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  and cisterns. Some of them crossed the Jordan
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  River and escaped to the land of Gad and Gilead.
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  Meanwhile, Saul stayed at Gilgal and his men were trembling with
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  fear. Saw waited their seven days for
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  Samuel, as Samuel had instructed him earlier.
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  But Samuel still didn't come. Saul realised that his troops
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  were rapidly slipping away. So he demanded bring me the
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  burnt offering and the peace offerings and soul sacrifice the
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  burnt offering himself. Just as soul finishing the burnt
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  offering, Samuel arrived. Saul went out to meet and
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  welcomed him. But Samuel said, What is this
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  you have done, Soul replied. I saw my men scattering from me,
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  and you didn't arrive when you said you would, and the
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  Philistines were at Michmash, ready for battle.
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  So I said, the Philistines are ready to March against us at
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  Gilgal. Then I haven't even asked for
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  the Lord's help, so I felt compelled to offer the burnt
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  offering myself before you came. How foolish, Samuel exclaimed.
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  You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you.
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  Had you kept it, the Lord would have established your kingship
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  over Israel forever. But now your Kingdom must end,
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  for the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart.
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  The Lord has already appointed him to be the leader of his
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  people, because you have not kept the Lord's command.
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  Samuel then left Gilgal and went on his way, But the rest of the
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  troops went with Saul to meet the army.
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  They went up from Gilgal to Gibier in the land of Benjamin.
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  When Saul counted the men who were still with him, he found
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  only 600 were left. Saul and Jonathan and the troops
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  with them were staying at Gibber in the land of Benjamin.
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  The Philistine set up their camp at Michmash 3.
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  Raiding parties soon left the camp of the Philistines.
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  One went N toward Ofra in the land of Shewell, the other went
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  W to Beth Horan, and the third moved toward the border above
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  the valley of Zeboim, near the wilderness.
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  There were no blacksmiths in the land of Israel in those days.
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  The Philistines wouldn't allow them, for fear.
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  They would make swords and Spears for the Hebrews.
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  O whenever the Israelites needed to sharpen their ploughshares,
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  picks, axes or sickles, they had to take them to a Philistine
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  blacksmith. The charges were as follows. 1/4
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  of an ounce of silver for sharpening A ploughshare or a
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  pick, and an eighth of an ounce for sharpening an axe or making
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  the point of an ox goad. O on the day of the battle, none
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  of the people of Israel had a sword or spear, except for Saul
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  and Jonathan. The pass at Mick Mash had
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  meanwhile been secured by a contingent of the Philistine
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  army. Our Lord, as we read this story,
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  we can relate, not relate, to what it feels like to be an
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  enormous, enormous king of a nation.
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  But but that when we think we're doing the right thing, we know
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  what you've asked us to do. We feel, we feel your prompting,
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  but we think that we know better and surely our idea is right,
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  isn't it? And we act, and then we find out
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  that no, it wasn't right, that that our conscience was
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  prompting us, that that your word had told us a different
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  way, that we didn't think was right.
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  Lord, continually humble us so that we would always place you
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  first, even when our logical human minds are telling us that
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  we're right. You are a magnificent God with
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  ways beyond our understanding. Help us always defer to you, for
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  you are our wise and all knowing God, and also a forgiving and
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  loving God for the times when we get it all wrong.
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  Thank you for your forgiveness, thank you for your love, and
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  thank you that you draw us into your family as your beloved
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  children. We pray all this through Jesus,
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  in whose name all of this is possible.
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  Amen.