Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

After David killed Goliath, he was a local hero.

Saul becomes very interested in knowing more about him, and Saul's son Jonathan was also really impressed with how David handled himself through the whole process.

When we talk about Jonathan, it's important to be aware of a thing called primogeniture.

That's where the first born in a family is the one who takes over the father's position.

In this society, it may be a tradition, but it's not a rule.

So Jonathan probably has the mindset that he will

succeed his father as king at some point. But today, he gives David some gifts, and it's not clear if

these gifts indicate that he thinks David should be king instead of him, or if he's just being generous.

The local women of the town praise David too. They credit him with winning the war. Normally,

this credit would go to the king, so when it goes to David, Saul feels threatened. The next day,

Saul gets a visit from his demon, and he tries to kill David twice while David's playing music

for him. Saul was afraid of David because God was with David, not him.

And these are his first two attempts of at least 16 times when he tries to kill David.

Today will basically be a rundown of a lot of Saul's plans and how God thwarts them all.

Saul has no concern for God's glory or what's best for the nation he's only seeking to serve himself.

Self-focus is like fertilizer on fear,

and it smells about the same. Saul's plan B is to get David away from him and hopefully have him killed by sending him off to war. But that backfires when David succeeds because now

everyone loves him more. Saul switches tactics to plan C. He wants to lure David into marrying

his daughter, McCall. You might remember from yesterday that this was supposed to be one of the prizes for

killing Goliath, but apparently Saul backpedaled on that, and now he's requiring more Philistines be killed

in order to marry McCall. 100 more, to be precise, in hopes that David would be killed in the process.

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