It’s also true that God honours his servants for what they do. The full names of these 4 giant-slayers are listed here. Is that not God honouring them? We see the same thing in the New Testament. In the last chapter of Romans, Paul mentions Priscilla and Aquila, his fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for his […]

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, […]