Consequences (1 Samuel 22:6-23:14)
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Intro
Intro
Ok everyone, catch me up on what we talked about last week, because everything that happens in the rest of chapter 22 pours directly out of that stream.
David was running for his life from Saul. (fear of man)
Lied to the priest (Ahimelech).
Got holy bread (necessity, not normative).
Got Goliath’s sword.
Continued running.
David fled to Gath (Goliath’s hometown).
Did not receive the warm welcome he somehow expected.
Acted like a crazy man!
Escaped the Philistines.
David set up court in a cave.
His family gathered around him.
He attracted the down and out and became their leader.
Fled at the word of a prophet into the forest.
Now we see things come together.
Sins of Eli, Saul, and David coalesce to stir a giant, stinking pot.
Chapter 22:6-23
Chapter 22:6-23
Saul hears about David being discovered (or coming out of hiding).
How does he respond?
Pity party and gaslighting his men.
“Does no one care for me? You didn’t tell me that my son moved against me.”
Who speaks up?
Doeg.
Who is Doeg?
An Edomite.
Why is that significant?
Esau’s offspring.
What does Doeg tell Saul?
Read 22:11-15
Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king. And Saul said, “Hear now, son of Ahitub.” And he answered, “Here I am, my lord.” And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?” Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house? Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.”
Saul flips out and condemns ALL of the priests to death!
And who is the instrument of Saul’s reckless hate?
Doeg.
Doeg is a foreigner who has little regard for God’s men.
The rest of Saul’s men won’t lift a finger.
They know this is not right and won’t be apart of it.
But things end differently than they did in chapter 14 when Jonathan tasted the honey
Remember what happened?
The men defended Jonathan and nothing happened to him at all.
On top of this, Saul acted exactly like “a king of the nations”!
He should be protecting God’s people.
Instead he’s killing them.
He should be respecting and revering God’s priests.
Instead, he’s killing them.
The slaughter of the priests fulfilled God’s words of judgment against them in 1 Samuel 2.
Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house. Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever. The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants of your house shall die by the sword of men.
The judgment on Eli, and his sons, spills over to the sons of Levi.
Sin has consequences.
The apathy of Eli.
The sin of Eli’s sons.
David’s lie.
Saul’s anger and jealousy.
A lot is culminating here!
This reminds us that there is no such thing as a little, harmless, private sin!
Sin has far reaching consequences and the judgement of the Lord will be meted out!
One son gets away to warn David and, ultimately joins his band.
Having a priest in the camp comes in handy pretty quickly afterwards.
Let’s look at chapter 23.
Chapter 23:1-14
Chapter 23:1-14
David’s dealings with the city of Keilah shows the importance of inquiring of the Lord.
How does this encounter differ from the account found in Joshua 9? (Gibeonites)
So the men took some of their provisions, but did not ask counsel from the Lord.
He hears of their trouble and where does he turn?
He first inquires if he should help before jumping feet first into the fray.
He routes the enemy and saves God’s people.
He inquires again if Saul will come down.
He inquires further if the men of the city will turn him over to Saul.
The answer to every question David asks here is “yes”.
“Yes, go”
“Yes, Saul is coming”
“Yes, they will hand you over”
