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Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 67 The Scripture account of Saul’s visit to the woman of Endor has been a source of perplexity to many students of the Bible. There are some who take the position that Samuel was actually present at the interview with Saul, but the Bible itself furnishes sufficient ground for a contrary conclusion.…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 66 Again war was declared between Israel and the Philistines. “The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem,” on the northern edge of the plain of Jezreel; while Saul and his forces encamped but a few miles distant, at the foot of Mount Gilboa, on the southern border of…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 65 This chapter is based on 1 Samuel 22:20- 23; 23-27. After Saul’s atrocious slaughter of the priests of the Lord, “one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. And Abiathar showed David that Saul had slain the Lord’s priests. And David said…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 64 This chapter is based on 1 Samuel 18 to 22. After the slaying of Goliath, Saul kept David with him, and would not permit him to return to his father’s house. And it came to pass that “the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 63 This chapter is based on 1 Samuel 16:14-23; 17. When King Saul realized that he had been rejected by God, and when he felt the force of the words of denunciation that had been addressed to him by the prophet, he was filled with bitter rebellion and despair. It was not…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 62 This chapter is based on 1 Samuel 16:1-13. A few miles south of Jerusalem, “the city of the great King,” is Bethlehem, where David, the son of Jesse, was born more than a thousand years before the infant Jesus was cradled in the manger and worshiped by the Wise Men from…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 61 This chapter is based on 1 Samuel 15. Saul had failed to bear the test of faith in the trying situation at Gilgal, and had brought dishonor upon the service of God; but his errors were not yet irretrievable, and the Lord would grant him another opportunity to learn the lesson…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 60 This chapter is based on 1 Samuel 13; 1 Samuel 14. After the assembly at Gilgal, Saul disbanded the army that had at his call arisen to overthrow the Ammonites, reserving only two thousand men to be stationed under his command at Michmash and one thousand to attend his son Jonathan…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 59 This chapter is based on 1 Samuel 8 to 12. The government of Israel was administered in the name and by the authority of God. The work of Moses, of the seventy elders, of the rulers and judges, was simply to enforce the laws that God had given; they had no…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 58 The Lord Himself directed the education of Israel. His care was not restricted to their religious interests; whatever affected their mental or physical well-being was also the subject of divine providence, and came within the sphere of divine law. God had commanded the Hebrews to teach their children His requirements and…