1 Samuel 25:1-17

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March 6, 2023

1 Samuel 25:1-17

00:00: Lee, would you love mind? Open this up with a word of prayer.
00:18: Confess our father that we're here only because of your grace and your mercy.
00:24: Thank you, Father, for creating us, saving us and sustaining us each day of our lives.
00:31: Jesus name.
00:33: Amen.
00:36: Hey, civil pull that door shut.
00:42: And he didn't go that way, did he? He did.
01:07: Let's go back to Samuel first Samuel chapter 24.
01:11: And I didn't finish the last couple of verses and I can't skip them.
01:15: So just walk through those.
01:19: And then I'll make up.
01:21: I had a couple of questions.
01:23: One a couple of weeks ago, I didn't get to answer that.
01:28: And then I've got another one that was asked this week that that person's not here, but I'll answer it anyway.
01:36: I'll pick up in verse 16.
01:38: So we can read to the end of chapter two.
01:39: When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, Is this your voice my son and Saul lifted up his voice and he wept and he said to David, you are more righteous than I for you have dealt with me.
01:54: Yeah, I'm sorry, you have dealt well with me.
01:56: While I have dealt wickedly with you, you have declared today that you have done good to me, and that the Lord delivered you in my hands and yet you did not kill me.
02:06: For if a man finds his enemies, will he let him go safely? May the Lord therefore reward you with good in return with what you have done to me.
02:16: Now behold, I know, you will surely be king that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hands.
02:23: So now swear to me, by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me, that you will not destroy my name from my father's household.
02:31: And David swore to Saul, and Saul went to his home, and David, and his men went to the stronghold.
02:38: So we left off last week at the 20 at the end of 20, where he said he is that he was going to he knew that God was going to establish him as king.
02:47: So this is an actual recognition by Saul that he knows, not just by his, maybe in his mind, or what has transpired over the years, he actually makes a confession to David that he knows he's going to be king.
03:03: So we get to the end of this, and we would think that okay, the the pursuit to kill David's over there, there's this recognition of who he's going to be, there's this looks like there's a confession and repentance type idea with with Saul, but it'll be short lived.
03:23: But he does ask him to not just to not destroy his descendants after him nor cut off his his father's household name.
03:33: Now, when we get into second Samuel, there is going to be an interaction that takes place because get of what Saul does to give you we have no idea what happened till we get to that chapter.
03:45: I think it's in chapter 21 or 22.
03:48: Great Famine happens.
03:51: Saul had went to give you up member that give you nights were just right here.
03:57: Just a way just just a few miles, maybe two miles from his or his throne was that they were in the land of Benjamin, they had made a covenant with them when they were tricked by Joshua was tricked when they came into the land.
04:13: Well, the famine comes he and treat to the Lord says why is this famine here been here for three years, God says it's because the bloodthirsty actions of Saul.
04:25: So what I want you to do is go talk to the Gibby Knights and see what they want.
04:29: They go talk to them.
04:30: They say, hey, we don't want reparations.
04:32: We don't want money.
04:33: We don't want silver gold.
04:35: What we want is the seven descendants or the seven sons of Saul, so that we can hang them for what he did to our people of retribution.
04:45: So when we see here that David makes a covenant with him to not destroy his family.
04:55: Samuel does have all of his descendants destroyed but one.
05:01: And if anybody remember who that one he keeps, Mephibosheth.
05:05: So he does wind up turning over his basically grandsons.
05:12: And when we get to that part, there's a textual variant, I think one thing to keep King James says Michael and then the other translation say Mirab it winds up being Mirab.
05:21: They try to keep it with the Masoretic text.
05:24: Anyway, we'll get to that whenever we get to that far, that could be months from now.
05:29: So he does fulfill his duty and his and his covenant with with Saul and with Jonathan by not cutting off his house because he did save Mephibosheth.
05:40: And why did he save Mephibosheth? I can't even say it.
05:43: Say it Mike.
05:44: There you go.
05:45: Why did he save Mephibosheth? Jonathan's son and he promised that he would he would show him loving kindness and you may remember what happened to Mephibosheth.
05:55: He was lame.
05:57: Yeah, when he was when they were running.
05:59: Yep, fell on broke his legs and he was lame and he brought him into his house and even Mephibosheth says why did you bring me in here? Why are you trying to he says because of your dad and you're going to eat with me and you're going to be like the king's son.
06:11: As a matter of fact, he goes and he takes land that from another person and says hey, you're going to farm this land and you're going to farm it from a Mephibosheth.
06:21: And it's interesting and how those people see you know, that's a kind thing and they do it in lieu of being honorable to the king.
06:29: All right.
06:30: It said, so David swore this to Saul and Saul went to his home but David and his men went up to the stronghold.
06:38: Now whether we know whether it was back doing Getty or better or whether it was down to where we with modern day Masada, we have no idea but he went back to wherever this place that they were going and this looks and appears on the surface that this pursuit is over.
06:54: Now before we go into chapter 25, I was asked a question.
07:02: And I was going to try to deal with it last week, we just didn't get to it.
07:06: Back in chapter 23.
07:10: When David 2323 when David is in the he goes into the cave of a Dillon 22, I think.
07:24: And I was asked the question, do you do you not see that this is a picture of Christ? And I gave the short answer because it was five minutes before church and that short answer is no.
07:37: And here's why.
07:39: When we are doing biblical interpretation, and we try to make connections to Christ, which we should, okay, we should, if we're doing your biblical theology runs on a line, where to that's not the Big Bang Theory.
08:03: That's just when God said let there be light.
08:05: When we're doing biblical theology, what we're seeing things develop, right? We see the guard.
08:18: What did the garden represent? The dwelling place of God.
08:26: Right? So we're seeing these threads and make these parallel because this is then how you would develop your systematic theology.
08:36: So you have a dwelling place of God develops.
08:42: Then we start looking as they develop, progressive through revelation, then we start seeing other things, right? We see what happens here we have maybe three days later.
08:58: We had the fall so then or we can say exile.
09:06: Then what do we start to see? Exile and punishment.
09:17: That's what we start to see.
09:18: See these things start developing that we're going to see and when we start seeing these things develop, then we see how Christ fits into these that what I let's go after the fall what let's just go for just a little small theology lesson we see something else develop.
09:35: What happens between Cain and Abel? Yes, he kills him.
09:42: So through progressive revelation, our biblical thought we're going to see the first murder.
09:47: I'll just put Abel and Cain.
09:51: Okay.
09:53: What does Cain become the first up for forget the garden for a second and Satan? What does Cain become the first up? What who said it? He is certainly the first murderer, but why did he who was Abel not righteous? Right? He becomes the first enemy of God's people.
10:17: Who was the descendant of Cain? That murder is not one person, but two.
10:26: So you start seeing these things develop.
10:31: So now you're seeing with Cain, you're seeing the development of enemies of God, which would ultimately when you get down here would be anti Christ meaning opposed, not the one that comes at the end of the age and all that just someone opposing.
10:52: So we're seeing these things develop.
10:54: So as we're seeing these things develop, these fit into a systematic theology when we get to, I'm just going to use this David and and yeah, and Abdullah, do we see any theology of caves in scripture? That's why we would not use that as what's why we do not see the cave of Adullam as a picture of Christ.
11:27: Okay.
11:28: First of all, when you make pictures and allegories like that, you have an inconsistency within it.
11:34: If if the cave was Christ.
11:39: So now we have the Christ type hiding in Christ.
11:46: See the inconsistency.
11:49: If Christ, if David is hidden in Christ, is David hiding from God? Good question.
12:00: He's not Christ.
12:02: People hidden in Christ are always hidden from who? The wrath of God.
12:12: Everybody hidden in Christ is hidden from who? God? Who was David hiding from in the cave of Adullam? Saul? He was from the enemies of God.
12:26: He was hiding from Gath.
12:28: So that is why.
12:29: So the other question last week was asked, how do we find Christ through the development of this of our storyline? Actually, how do you see Christ in the Old Testament? And it's through the development of historical redemptive history.
12:47: That's how we do it.
12:48: So when we look at we can even let's go here to Noah.
12:53: All right.
12:57: We would all see the Ark as a Christ type, would we not? Right? Why? And who who were they being saved from in the Ark? From God's wrath.
13:13: That's right from God's wrath from God's wrath.
13:15: Now, I understand that we could say, hey, in this case, he was finding refuge, right? I understand that.
13:24: I get that.
13:25: But what are we gonna do with last week, when him and all of his friends are in a cave, and God delivers an enemy into it? You see what I'm saying? The theology of caves is not within Scripture, it has to be rooted in the character and nature of God.
13:42: What are we going to do when we get to 2 Samuel, and he does the same thing in the cave of Adullam, and he's hiding from from Absalom? Okay, so we are trying to find Christ, we look at Christ as it is developed in types, type, who is the fulfillment of the dwelling place of God? Christ.
14:05: Remember what he said? Hey, he said in the temple, the temple was typological, was it not? Was it was the tabernacle typological? Was the tabernacle typological? Yes, what was it? It was the housing of the dwelling place of God.
14:21: Alright, so that happened somewhere around here.
14:24: Then we move forward, but remember, this moved around circular.
14:29: Then when we get to the temple, what, what was different about the temple than the tabernacle about the dwelling place of God? It didn't move, it became stationary.
14:38: So now there was actually a stationary place where God's people would come to meet him to worship him.
14:45: But only one person can go into the presence of the Lord one time a year, but they can go to the outer courts.
14:51: Then when Jesus comes, he says, you destroyed this temple in, in three days, and I'm going to raise it up, and they want to stone him and all that.
14:58: Okay.
14:59: So what, and it wasn't until after it says in the Gospels that Jesus was resurrected that they understood what he meant when he said, you destroyed this temple, and in three days, I will raise it up.
15:10: So it has to do with the dwelling place of God.
15:12: So you see the, these, these things develop over, over redemptive history, and we see types and shadows.
15:20: That's what we do.
15:21: Okay.
15:22: That's how we see Christ in the Old Testament.
15:24: If this, if we can make those connections, okay, when I say this, if we make those connections, that the Bible doesn't make, it's called, it's an unbiblical connection, doesn't mean it's a sinful connection.
15:38: Okay.
15:40: It's just an unbiblical.
15:41: The Bible doesn't make that distinction.
15:43: Okay.
15:44: It's like the, the rocks and the sling.
15:49: Okay.
15:49: The Bible doesn't make those distinctions.
15:51: All right.
15:52: So that's what we, when we do in biblical interpretation, answer the question of how do we see Christ as it develops in types and shadows that culminate in Christ through the storyline of redemptive history.
16:05: That's how we see Christ in the Old Testament.
16:07: Hey, if anybody wants to read a good book, Graham Goldworthy book, one of the best ones I ever read is very good.
16:12: It's seeing Jesus Christ throughout the Bible.
16:15: It steers away from any type of allegorical interpretation.
16:17: It actually deals with storyline that deals in types and shadows.
16:21: Okay.
16:21: All right.
16:38: All right.
16:39: Let's start.
16:42: Verse 20, chapter 25, verse one.
16:46: It said, and then Samuel died.
16:48: All Israel gathered together and mourned for him and buried him at his house in Ramah and David arose and went down to the wilderness of Peron.
16:58: Samuel died.
16:59: Is this not a significant thing in biblical history? Who was Samuel? Priest? Well, he was a, he was, he, he, he functioned as an intercessor of the people of God while the tabernacle was not up.
17:17: He was not a descendant of Aaron.
17:19: Remember that, that is key.
17:21: He was not a descendant of Aaron.
17:22: He was a Kohathite and the Kohathites took care of the, the implements, the menorah, the show table, and all of that.
17:30: But he could not go beyond the veil into the Holy of Holies, only Eli and his descendants, which were of the Arianic priesthood.
17:40: It's, it's funny.
17:41: Well, funny, ironic that it places in the, in the narrative now, it places Samuel died.
17:48: It's almost as if the, the narrator, whoever this was, as he, now that there's an actual recognition by Saul that David's going to be king, we see now Samuel dies.
18:05: It's almost like, you know, you think back in, um, when, when Keith was teaching through Genesis and you get to where Jacob's there with his, with Joseph and all of his boys together, and he's given the blessings and cursing her, you know, some of them were cursed because of what they did.
18:22: And it's Simeon and Levi.
18:24: And as he was with all of his people gathered together, he was able to, he says, then he lifted up his legs into his bed and he breathed his last breath.
18:35: And we see that here, Samuel is going to die.
18:39: Um, I want to hope that maybe for a short amount of time, and we don't know that David and Saul had squashed this because it says here, and all Israel gathered together to mourn for him.
18:52: And they buried him at his house at Ramah.
18:57: Yeah, all's inclusive word.
18:59: Now, sometimes all can be all within a same group, but it is, it's interesting how it flows that here, David and Saul were no longer at odds with one another for the short amount of time.
19:11: Did they meet in Ramah to bury the prophet that anointed both those Kings? I mean, you have a guy that had a stellar life.
19:21: What, what can we say? If you want to say there was any fallacy of Samuel, what would it be? Although it's not his fault, it was his son's.
19:34: What's that? It's not his fault, but he's the one who anointed Saul.
19:39: Because God told him to go.
19:41: Yeah, God told him to not his fault.
19:44: The only thing we can see in his life is his two sons were perverting justice.
19:49: Remember when he, he set them up in other places because he was getting older and he couldn't make his circuit.
19:53: So he set his sons up to do stuff and they were perverting it and he did rebuke them.
19:57: That's all that we can say about him.
20:01: He was a constant intercessor for the people for the 40 years that he was a judge.
20:05: It says he ruled them righteously.
20:07: He always did what God told him to do.
20:10: Even when God told him to go to Bethlehem and anoint another King.
20:13: And he said, man, I'm fearful for my life.
20:15: And Saul finds out he's going to kill me.
20:17: What did he do? He went, he was a faithful man of God.
20:21: He was a faithful man of God.
20:23: He was a faithful man to intercede for the people of God.
20:28: He was faithful to tell them when they were doing wrong.
20:31: Remember when they wanted a King and they came to him, he took it kind of as, as a personal attack on him.
20:37: And God says, no, no, no, no, no.
20:39: They're not rejecting your word.
20:40: Who are they rejecting? They're rejecting.
20:43: He says, they're not rejecting you as the prophet.
20:46: They're rejecting me as King and they want one like the nations.
20:49: And you know what? I'm going to give them what they want as an act of judgment to them.
20:55: And that's what they gave him Saul.
20:56: He gave him an unconverted man that would apostatize and gave him a man that would take stuff from them would oppress their people.
21:05: And he would ultimately try to kill the real anointed King.
21:09: And so it says they mourned for him and bury him at his house in Ramah.
21:13: And David arose and he went down to the wilderness of Peron.
21:17: And that's why I would take it as David being there when he was buried, because it says in David arose and went down to the wilderness of Peron.
21:24: That's why, which would have been down.
21:27: Yeah, down.
21:27: Yeah.
21:28: Down in towards in the desert.
21:31: Yep.
21:32: On.
21:33: And then when now we get to a, a, a narrative, I'm going to read the whole thing.
21:39: Let's see.
21:40: I'm going to read it.
21:41: Actually, I'll probably just read to the end of 17 because we may not get through this whole because the chapter is very lengthy.
21:48: So let me just read through verse 17 and then we'll stop and walk through it and then see how far we get.
21:54: It says, now there was a man in Mahon whose business was in Carmel.
22:00: And the man was very rich.
22:02: He had 3000 sheep and a thousand goats.
22:06: And it came about while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
22:09: Now the man's name was Nabal and his wife's name was Abigail.
22:13: And the woman was intelligent and beautiful in appearance, but the man's, the man was harsh and evil in his dealings.
22:20: He was a Calebite.
22:23: And then David heard that the wilderness that Nabal was, I'm sorry.
22:28: Then David had heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
22:32: So David sent 10 young men.
22:35: And David said to the young men, you go up to Carmel, you visit Nabal and greet him in my name.
22:40: And thus you shall say, have a long life.
22:43: Peace be to you.
22:44: Peace be to your house and peace be to all that you have.
22:48: Now I have heard that you have shears and now your shepherds have been with us and they have not been insulted nor have they missed anything all the days that they were in Carmel.
23:00: Ask your young men and they will tell you.
23:03: Therefore, let my young men find favor in your eyes for we have come on a festive day.
23:10: Please give whatever you find in your hand to your servants and to your son, David.
23:15: And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal concerning all the words of David's name.
23:22: And they waited and Nabal answered David's servants and says, who is David? And who is this son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are at each one breaking away from his master.
23:35: Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shears and give it to men whose origins I do not know? So David's men retracted their way and went back and they came and told him according to all of his words.
23:50: And David said to his men, each of you gird on his sword.
23:54: So each man girded on his sword and David also girded on his sword and about 400 men went up and then David, while 200 of them stayed back with the baggage.
24:06: But one of the young men's told Abigail, Nabal's wife saying, behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master and he scorned them.
24:15: Yet the men who were, they were very good to us and we were not insulted, nor did we miss anything as long as they were with us doing about with, uh, going about with us in the field.
24:27: They were a wall to us by day and by night, all the time that we were there tending the sheep.
24:33: Now, therefore know and consider what you should do for evil is plotted against your master and against his household.
24:40: And he is such a worthless man that no one can speak to him.
24:45: All right.
24:46: How many of y'all remember, I've been ever read this passage.
24:51: Okay.
24:52: So as we're seeing, uh, David was in that vicinity.
24:58: His men had, um, obviously befriended the shearers of Nabal.
25:05: Okay.
25:06: Um, they were in Carmel.
25:08: When's the last time we, we saw Carmel? Anybody remember? Um, anybody remember what happened at Carmel? From the back at the great slaughter that was not completed with a gag.
25:29: What did Saul do at Carmel? He stopped and set up a monument for himself to say, look what I have done.
25:36: So that's the last time we see Carmel.
25:37: It's interesting that here it is.
25:38: You have two narcissistic men, uh, located in Carmel.
25:43: Um, yeah, Nabal and, uh, at that time you had, had Saul.
25:48: Um, obviously Nabal was rich.
25:51: It says here in verse two, um, he was very rich.
25:56: He had 3000 sheep and a thousand goats.
26:01: And it came about that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
26:04: Hey, what time of year would this have been if they were shearing sheep? Springtime.
26:09: Yeah.
26:09: It would have been around the same time.
26:10: Yeah.
26:12: Springtime.
26:13: And they, shearing sheep was a time of festivities.
26:15: If you remember back in Genesis, when Judah, when he went to his, I forget his friend's name, but when he went to his friend's house and she, he was tricked to, to, to sleep with Tamar, you remember where he was going? He was going to, to the, to the festive of the shearing of the sheep and shearing of the sheep harvest time was always a time of festivities because it showed that the prosperity that God had given his people, just like, you know, not that part, but it was, it was the time in which we, they remembered the first fruits given and the harvest time.
26:54: Well, this too was a time to go, man, God has blessed us with all of these sheep.
26:58: He has blessed us with all of the wool.
27:00: And as they don't think of shearing the sheep is just them coming, like just cutting it off.
27:04: It had to be pulled off in fleeces so that when they cut it, it come off and look like almost like, yeah, like a mat.
27:12: Yeah.
27:12: Like a bath floor mat.
27:14: And that's how it would come off.
27:15: So there was a little bit more doing than just yeah.
27:17: They didn't have obviously electric shears.
27:20: It was more like filleting it off, I guess.
27:25: And it says that the man's name was Nabal and his wife's name was Abigail.
27:31: We will learn what Abigail says about her husband.
27:34: Now, whether Nabal, his name was actually Nabal or whether it was a nickname, we do not know, but it means fool.
27:42: Okay.
27:43: And she will say Nabal is his name and foolishness is with him.
27:47: So it's hard for me to believe that Mr and Mrs Nabal the day that he was born, and being circumcised on the eighth day when Oh, look at this precious fool.
27:59: You know, it's hard for me to believe that it's somewhere along the line.
28:03: He, he, he contracted the nickname of fool.
28:10: So, and his wife was Abigail, she was an intelligent and beautiful in parents.
28:14: But the man was harsh with his dealings.
28:17: And he was a Calebite.
28:18: Who was Caleb, not this one.
28:22: Came out with a good report.
28:24: So we look at a, and he was one of the only two after the 40 years of disobedience that came into the land.
28:32: Yeah, that came into the land.
28:34: It was only to remember 1012 spies, 10 were bad, two were good.
28:38: And a little song using children's church.
28:40: Yeah.
28:41: So we have Caleb.
28:43: So we look at that.
28:44: And we go, man, this guy does come from good stock.
28:47: And cable was Caleb, a man of faith.
28:49: He sure was because he said, Hey, man, look at these.
28:52: Look at all these dates we brought back.
28:55: They're like, yeah, they're giants in there.
28:57: But man, we'll go in there and the Lord will overthrow them.
29:00: And they listen to the 10 bad reports instead.
29:02: So we know that Caleb was of good stock.
29:05: Caleb was actually given some land.
29:07: And after they had went through the land about five years, they had conquered it.
29:12: He says, Hey, I've done my best I could do for you, Joshua.
29:15: Now I want my rest.
29:15: Now give me my land.
29:16: Yeah.
29:17: Sure was.
29:18: Yeah.
29:19: He's like, like jack 80 years old.
29:25: So his wife was beautiful.
29:28: He was harsh.
29:29: And David heard that they were shearing the sheep.
29:31: So David sent 10 young men.
29:33: And David said to the young man, go up to Carmel visit naval and greet him.
29:38: Why would they go? Why would they greet them in David's name? He's assuming that he knows who David is.
29:47: He's assuming that he knows that either David was and we know that he will understand this part that he was he was in Saul's court.
29:57: Now how he understands that we'll find out here in a minute.
30:01: But he says, Hey, when you go to him, you say these things one, he gives him a blessing.
30:07: Have a long life.
30:09: Peace be to you.
30:10: Peace be to your whole household.
30:13: And peace be all that you have.
30:15: I want you to remember exactly what maybe we'll get look back at when I get there.
30:20: He is going to in action real all that back.
30:26: He he's had tell him to have a long life, but he will desire to kill him.
30:31: He will say peace be to you, but he's fixing to go make war with him.
30:36: He says and peace be to your house.
30:38: And you will see that he will tell I'm not gonna leave one male descendant left in his house.
30:45: And then he says and peace be all that you have.
30:47: Well, it'll be PC or have he goes in there and he slays every every man.
30:51: What are they gonna do with their stuff? They're gonna take it.
30:54: That's right.
30:54: They're gonna take it.
30:56: He says now I have heard that you have shears and that your shepherds have been with us and we have not insulted them nor have they missed anything.
31:09: All the days that they were in Carmel.
31:11: What does this say about David and his men? Very honorable.
31:16: Yeah.
31:20: tax dodgers and people who are unhappy with the government.
31:25: Yeah, as far as with the exception of being 600 motley crew men, these guys are actually carrying out the the desires and the character of David which was to protect God's people.
31:39: So he says, Look, we have been with your shears.
31:42: And while they have been here doing whatever they've been doing, nothing has either come up missing.
31:47: Nothing has come to harm them, whether it be whether it be when we're going to use this, whether it be wolf or bear anything to hurt the sheep, nor while they were held while those men were doing the sheep shearing, they acted as security, right? That's right.
32:04: Now, on the surface level, when he asked for something, I have I've heard this talk years ago, hey, basically, David was looking to a point to extort naval.
32:18: Hey, look here.
32:19: With me and my 600 dudes been here.
32:22: We've been watching over all your stuff.
32:24: Yes, ma'am.
32:24: If you extort, you don't take care of someone ahead of time.
32:29: Well, they're taking care of him ahead of time.
32:31: And now he's saying, All right, now it's time to pay the piper.
32:33: I don't agree with it.
32:34: But that's what the guy said.
32:35: Now David say and pay the piper.
32:37: That's not what David saying.
32:38: And the day and I will see it because he says whatever you find in your hand, Abel, whatever it is, just give it now.
32:46: What were they? So what were the Israelites supposed to do in the time of festive days? That's it.
32:56: They're supposed to share everybody.
32:57: Matter of fact, if they in a time of and you couldn't get to the main festivals that took place in Jerusalem, once it's set up as the temple, and that was going to be the main location, and you couldn't make it there, what were they supposed to do? Take the money, take their offering, sell it, take that money, find a sojourner and have a party.
33:16: That's what they were supposed to do.
33:18: So what David's asking is not inconsistent with what had already been revealed in the mosaic legislation.
33:25: He's like, look, we're all descendants of, of Abraham and of Jacob.
33:32: This is a time of festivity.
33:33: God has overwhelmingly blessed you.
33:37: And all I'm asking you to do, I sent 10 guys to you just whatever your hand can give us give us.
33:43: And what he is basically asking for reciprocal kindness.
33:50: Was David kind to his people? Not David's people, was he kind to Nabal's people? Very kind.
33:58: So what he was saying here is, hey, man, I've been kind to your people for this whole time, however long that had been, we don't know.
34:04: I mean, it might take a little if you're out there with a flint knife, and filleting off some fleece, it's probably a little while to get 3000 sheep.
34:14: Okay.
34:15: And so he's saying, hey, the total time they were there, they were fine and dandy.
34:19: I'm just asking to give me whatever's in your hand.
34:22: And when David's verse nine, and when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal, according to all the words in David's name.
34:30: And then they waited.
34:31: So here it is, they give him the speech.
34:34: And they just here it goes.
34:38: And then Nabal answered David's servants this way, who is David? And then he says the same thing Saul says, who is this son of Jesse? That's that is a antagonistic way of saying this guy ain't nobody.
34:56: And then he says, aren't there many servants today who are breaking away from his master? What is he saying about David's character at this point? He Well, he's a nobody.
35:13: That's it.
35:14: He is saying that he is rebelling against the crown.
35:17: That's what he's saying.
35:18: He's saying, look, you're he's your master, but you're breaking away to do your own thing.
35:24: Now, whether that was whether that was his perception of maybe what was going on, because I seriously doubt that there was the hubbub in the area was, you know, there was had been some rift between David and Saul.
35:37: I mean, this could have probably been 10 years 15.
35:40: I don't know it.
35:41: At least 10.
35:43: This had been going on.
35:45: He says in each one breaking away from his master, shall I take here it is my bread, my water, my meat that I have slaughtered for my shears, and basically says, and give it to your men who I don't even know where you're coming from.
36:03: Ultimately, how are they supposed to see their bread, their water, their meat, their sheep and their servants coming from God.
36:16: That's why they were supposed to share it.
36:18: I mean, it was communal, not communistic, but it was communal.
36:22: Hey, look, man, this is what God has blessed me with.
36:24: And I have to I have more than abundance.
36:27: Let me help those who were one had been kind to me and they're in need.
36:32: Obviously, he's saying, Look, man, my guys are hungry.
36:34: They want they were hungry.
36:36: This is good.
36:36: But if it out there, we're hungry, 600 of them.
36:39: And, and based on having 600 men with him, okay.
36:46: 10 men can't carry back a lot, can they think about what are they gonna were they gonna carry back 200 pounds of raisins on their back each one? No, he sent 10 guys to go get whatever they can, whatever their hands could bring back.
37:06: He says, we're mad.
37:11: Shall I take shall I take my bread and my show? And he says so David's David's young men retracted their way and went back up for years.
37:21: I preached it through the the new King James who knew the new King James and it turns on their heels.
37:28: Which does your say that Andy? No, it doesn't.
37:34: What is your say? Who's got new King James? What does it say? They say turn on the heels.
37:42: Yeah.
37:43: So it's like, all right, naval Senate.
37:45: Oh, boy.
37:47: And they just here it goes.
37:49: This guy has just said some terrible stuff about David.
37:53: He does not know who he just said these things about.
37:57: They don't understand that this man has slayed the giant.
38:02: He has no problem killing the enemies of God's people.
38:06: David's gonna be very angry.
38:09: So ma'am.
38:17: Yeah, he's gonna say that in a few minutes.
38:19: Yeah, because what's that? Sure.
38:25: Well, the the shearers going we'll get there in just a second.
38:29: Because he's the shearers are like saying, Hey, man, what this guy did was good.
38:33: Okay, so however long David was in that area.
38:37: They had developed relationship with those men that those men liked David did he look naval didn't send any of his men to protect his men when they were shaking.
38:46: Hey, let's just take forever wherever they were at.
38:48: Okay.
38:50: Car.
38:51: It would not have been easy for the Philistines to send a cohort of guys when they're out there spending their time shearing sheep and herding goats to send a cohort of men over there from the Philistine from the bank where they would always come from from the from the coast side and try to raid them were they not consistently raiding the people of God? Well, what the guy says here man when they were here, none of that happened.
39:19: They were a wall around us both by day and by night.
39:22: They were their security system.
39:25: Would you say people? Yeah, they were raided.
39:29: Yeah, kid.
39:30: Yeah, kick Kayla was raided.
39:32: And when did they raid them? The time of harvest.
39:35: So at the time of the threshing floor, they were out there beating the grain when they were busy and nobody was paying attention.
39:41: And what did they do? They sent men in there to rob the threshing floor.
39:45: They went in so much they even took oxen in there.
39:47: We're going to drag it out because it says that David hauls their own livestock out Philistines livestock.
39:52: So it says so verse 13, David said they turned on their heels in verse 12.
40:00: According to the words, they'll get back to David.
40:03: David said to his men, each of you guard on his sword.
40:07: So that each man guarded on his sword, David also guarded on his sword and went about 400 men went with him while to stay back to live with the baggage.
40:17: Look here.
40:19: David at this point, he is so angry that he says, put on your sword.
40:28: We gonna handle this and we're gonna handle this the way I handle the uncircumcised people.
40:34: Does David have the legitimate right to be angry upset? Based on that? Yeah, I think he has a legitimate right to be upset.
40:49: Okay.
40:50: Yeah, but what he's just saying, Hey, man, I'm just wanting you to reciprocate kindness for kindness.
40:57: And when he says, Hey, man, you know what, I'm not gonna be gonna say I'm not even gonna send back one little to this guy.
41:04: Because I think he's a rebellious servant of Saul.
41:09: That's what I think he is.
41:10: And he sent his men back, David at this point, when here's what he said, gird on your sword.
41:19: And all of his men, what is he about to do? He's fixing to do exactly what Saul did to the city of knob.
41:31: Remember last week, I says here it is.
41:33: Here comes the test.
41:34: Is he gonna be like Saul, the rejected king? Or is he going to be the anointed king? Now? He says that David left two men back with the baggage.
41:51: 200 men back with the baggage and verse 14.
41:54: But one of the young men told Abigail and who is she? What was her? What was her? Her adjectives to describe her? Beautiful and intelligent.
42:08: So okay, we're gonna go talk to the fool again.
42:11: We're gonna go talk to somebody who's got some sense.
42:14: So they go to Abigail, the Nabal's servants and said, Hey, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master.
42:23: He scorned them.
42:24: Hey, even Nabal's own people says, Hey, man, this dude ripped David's guys a new one.
42:32: Yet the men were very good to us.
42:34: They were not insulting, nor did we miss anything as long as we were about with them while we were in the field.
42:42: Hey, as long as we were with who? Them, them.
42:49: So as long as they were with David and his men, David's men protect.
42:53: Hey, they got outside the protection of David's people.
42:56: What's that? What's the inference? Some type of riffraff happened.
43:00: Okay, that when they were outside the covering of David's people, something happened in verse 16 and they were a wall to us both by day and by night at all.
43:10: All the time that we were with them to initiate.
43:12: Now, therefore, no one consider what is plotted for you and against your master and against his household.
43:19: And he is a worthless man that no one can speak to him.
43:23: So I seriously doubt that David's men said when they turned on their heels, I doubt that he said, Hey, check it out, you better be ready, because David's probably gonna come back and kill all y'all now.
43:37: But they knew by the disposition, obviously, that this ain't going well.
43:44: This guy protected us from all those things around us, whether it was the raiding Philistines, whether it was lions and bears trying to eat the sheep.
43:53: They knew that Hey, man, he is not going to take this well.
43:57: And that he evil means right.
43:59: Does everybody say evil has been determined and plotted? Your base translation say evil? Yeah, evil is plotted against? Yep.
44:08: Is it evil? What David is planning to do? You better believe it's evil.
44:16: He is fixing to slaughter a man out of selfish desires.
44:21: And not only that, he's making a selfish oath that he's going to go in there and he's going to kill everybody until he gets his enemies taken care of.
44:33: What did Saul say back in chapter 1714? When he made the foolish vow to his people? He said, Ain't nobody gonna eat.
44:41: Ain't nobody gonna drink until I get vengeance on my people.
44:46: What a foolish vow then is this not a foolish vow as well.
44:50: A foolish vow to go in and kill every man.
44:53: Every boy, the son of Nabal foolish.
44:58: And it says here that he is such a worthless man that no one can speak to him.
45:01: In other words, Nabal is an idiot.
45:05: He he did.
45:06: He didn't take into account what was going on.
45:08: He didn't take an account to how David's men had taken care of us.
45:12: And he's foolish.
45:14: And we got 30 seconds.
45:17: We got to go.
45:21: Was it smart on a ball's part? Foolish, foolish on a ball's part.
45:31: Foolish is the name.
45:32: Yep.
45:33: Is it foolish for what David's about to do? Is it? Is it foolish for David to even react this way? Yeah.
45:44: Who was David supposed to trust in his sustenance for God? And now what's he gonna do? He's gonna trust in himself just like he did when he lied at knob, just like he did when he went to Gath and he lied, just like he's on in a couple more chapters, he gonna end up back in Gath and he's gonna lie then and let me tell you something, we get to Gath, he gets himself in such a pickle over there that he he can't get himself out of it.
46:08: It's I mean, it's bad.
46:10: God actually has to providentially supernaturally deliver him from the situation he has got himself in when we get there.
46:20: All right, we'll pick up in verse 18 when Abigail intercedes on his behalf next week.
46:26: Stephen, will you pray us out, brother? See, thanks.
46:56: Our worship.
47:03: Right.