Eleazar struck down so many Philistines that after a while, he couldn’t have let go of his sword, even if he wanted to. Would you rather die with your hand clinging to your sword? Or with your sword rusty because it’s used so rarely? Would you rather they had to put the sword in the coffin with you because they […]

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 […]