Reading 1 - 2Sa 14 "Problems in David's family continue. His son Absalom, now the eldest and in line for the throne, conspires against...

Reading 1 - 2Sa 13 David's great sin, although especially forgiven, led to many severe trials during all his remaining years -- trials...

Reading 1 - 2Sa 12:7 "Then Nathan said to David, 'You are the man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: "I anointed you king...

Reading 1 - 2Sa 7:16 The LORD God's promise to David: "Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me [according to some...

Reading 1 - 2Sa 6:17 "They brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it [in...

Reading 1 - 2Sa 4:9 "The LORD lives, who has delivered me out of all trouble" (2Sa 4:9). God had always delivered David; he did not need...

Reading 1 - 2Sa 3 "Antagonism between the houses of Saul and David continued; irritating, annoying, fretful conflicts, but inevitably the...

Reading 1 - 2Sa 2:8-10 "Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-Bosheth son of Saul..." -- (Ish-bosheth...

Reading 1 - 2Sa 1 "At long last, the man who had hounded David from pillar to post around Israel and indeed had driven him from Israel,...

Reading 1 - 1Sa 31:9,10 "They cut off his [Saul's] head and stripped off his armor, and they sent messengers throughout the land of the...

Reading 1 - 1Sa 29:1-4 "The Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, and Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel. As the Philistine...

Reading 1 - 1Sa 28 "The man [Saul, whom] David honoured as 'Yahweh's Anointed' had a vacillating life, reaching great heights and depths...

Reading 1 - 1Sa 26:19 "They have now driven me from my share in the LORD'S inheritance and have said, 'Go, serve other gods' " (1Sa...

Reading 1 - 1Sa 25 Commenting on the example of Abigail -- the faithful wife of the wicked Nabal -- Jane Roberts writes: "It sometimes...

Reading 1 - 1Sa 23 David saved Keilah (men of his own tribe) from the Philistines, but then found himself, with his men, in a walled...

Reading 1 - 1Sa 22:2 "All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader" (1Sa...

Reading 1 - 1Sa 20 In 1Sa 20, the situation created by Saul caused the separation of these two faithful friends. Jonathan chooses...

Reading 1 - 1Sa 19 "But when the men [sent by Saul] entered [looking to arrest David while he lay in his sickbed]"... ...they found he...

Reading 1 - 1Sa 18:1-4 "After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as...

Reading 1 - 1Sa 17 The story of David's victory over the Philistine giant Goliath is an enacted parable of the promise of Gen 3:15 (the...