Eleazar is a pretty obscure Bible character. And yet God noticed and highlighted what he did. Some commentators think that what verses 9 and 10 are describing are the aftermath of David killing Goliath. The picture would be that the rest of the troops in his contingent gave up pursuing the Philistines. They left him pursuing them alone. But he […]

We’re not all called to take on the enemy on glamorous battlefields. As if there is such a thing anyway. Here in verses 11 and 12 we have a man called Shammah who takes his stand in a plot of ground full of lentils. I’m sure there are people that we’re all looking forward to meeting in heaven. People from […]

Probably the most well-known of the events recorded in this chapter is what we read in verses 14-17. Three of the chief men overhear David, and they go and break through the Philistine camp and get water and bring it back to David. And when he realises what they’ve done, and that they’ve risked their lives to get it, he […]