In these verses, David is both like and unlike the Lord Jesus Christ. He’s like the Lord Jesus in that the nation’s hopes are completely bound up with him. After Ishbi-benob nearly kills David, his men say to him: ‘You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.’ To talk about David […]

Something else which will help you not grow weary in doing good is the reminder here that God silences his enemies. Not only do we have Goliath’s brother in this chapter. (He’s called Goliath here, but in 1 Chronicles 20:5, he’s referred to as Goliath’s brother.) We also have someone who talks like Goliath. We’re not told his name in […]

If you’ve been a Christian for a long time, and particularly if you’ve been plodding on in an area of service to Christ without seeing much fruit, one of the exhortations of Scripture which you may need to keep coming back to is: ‘do not grow weary in doing good’. That command actually appears a couple of times in Scripture, […]