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Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 73 This chapter is based on 2 Samuel 24; 1 Kings 1; 1 Chronicles 21; 28; 29. The overthrow of Absalom did not at once bring peace to the kingdom. So large a part of the nation had joined in revolt that David would not return to his capital and resume his…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 71 This chapter is based on 2 Samuel 11; 12. The Bible has little to say in praise of men. Little space is given to recounting the virtues of even the best men who have ever lived. This silence is not without purpose; it is not without a lesson. All the good…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 72 This chapter is based on 2 Samuel 13-19. “He shall restore fourfold,” had been David’s unwitting sentence upon himself, on listening to the prophet Nathan’s parable; and according to his own sentence he was to be judged. Four of his sons must fall, and the loss of each would be a…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 70 This chapter is based on 2 Samuel 5:6-25; 6; 7; 9; 10. As soon as David was established on the throne of Israel he began to seek a more appropriate location for the capital of his realm. Twenty miles from Hebron a place was selected as the future metropolis of the…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 69 This chapter is based on 2 Samuel 2 to 5:5. The death of Saul removed the dangers that had made David an exile. The way was now open for him to return to his own land. When the days of mourning for Saul and Jonathan were ended, “David inquired of the…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 68 This chapter is based on 1 Samuel 29; 30; 2 Samuel 1. David and his men had not taken part in the battle between Saul and the Philistines, though they had marched with the Philistines to the field of conflict. As the two armies prepared to join battle the son of…

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…