CHAPTER XXXIII
_ DAVID'S SECOND FLIGHT TO GATH._
1 Samuel 27:1; 1 Samuel 28:1; 1 Samuel 29:1.
WE are not prepared for the sad decline in the spirit of trust which
is recorded in the beginning of the twenty-seventh chapter. The
victory gained by David over the carnal spirit of revenge, shown so
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CHAPTER XXXIV.
_ SAUL AT ENDOR._
1 Samuel 28:3.
FOR a considerable time Saul had been drifting along like a crippled
vessel at sea, a melancholy example of a man forsaken of God. But as
his decisive encounter with the Philistines drew on, the state of
helplessness to which he had been reduced beca... [ Continue Reading ]