The first thing we want to focus on is how God equips his servants to fight his battles. Look at the final verse of the chapter. Speaking of the giants who were killed, it says: ‘These four were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants’. We’re […]

There’s a contrast in this chapter between the old king, and the new one. Saul is a covenant breaking king. He violated the covenant that had been made before God with the Gibeonites. But there’s a little aside in verse 7 that reminds us that David is very different: “But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, […]

What we have in the passage in front of us is pretty unique. Surely it’s meant to stop us in our tracks, and make us think of the seriousness of sin, and of what it costs for sin to be atoned for. And even then, Gibeah is nothing compared to Calvary, when the holy wrath of God was poured out […]