Today is the 22nd day of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful

to be here with you today as we gather around the global campfire and take the next step

forward together. We're kind of flipping the page here as we get going today because

we concluded the book of 1st Samuel yesterday. And the way that the book of 1st Samuel ends is

that David and his men are going into battle against Israel. They're going into battle as

Philistines. When they are sent home, not allowed to go into battle because the Philistines are

worried that during the battle, David and his men will turn on the Philistines and that will cement him

in the good graces of Israel's king and David will hand a lot of dead Philistines over to Israel

in the process. So they won't let them go into battle, they won't let them go into battle.

They send them home to Zicklag, the town that they were given. When they get to Zicklag, they find

that the Amalakites have raided all throughout the region and have burned their town down and

everything away. And so David and his men go in pursuit and are able to recover everything.

Meanwhile though, there was a battle brewing up in the north, a battle that David was sent away from,

a battle that subsequently occurred and the Philistines were victorious. And in the process

of being victorious, they were successful in killing Israel's first king, King Saul.

And his sons, the princes of Israel, Jonathan, Abinadab and Melchishua. And of course Jonathan and David

were deeply, deeply close friends. David doesn't know all of this has happened yet.

He's had his hands full because they got back and their town was burned and they had to deal with

an issue of their own and recovering their families. So David doesn't know that Saul is dead

or that his friend Jonathan is dead. As we turn the page now and prepare to begin second Samuel,

our focus will become upon David. Whereas first Samuel led us through the life and times of King Saul

and introduced us to David and how he became famous and how Saul became so deeply paranoid about David.

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