David Fights for His Family

TIMES OF DAVID DAVID FIGHTS FOR HIS FAMILY 1. __________________________ Will ___________________________________________ 1 Samuel 30:1-2 1 David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it, 2 and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way. 1 Samuel 27:6 6 So on that day Achish gave him Ziklag, and it has belonged to the kings of Judah ever since. 2. _________________________________________________________________________ 1 Samuel. 30:3-5 3 When David and his men came to Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. 4 So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep. 5 David's two wives had been captured - Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel. 3. Always ___________________________________________________________ to God 1 Samuel 30:6 6 David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God. 4. ______________________ and ______________________________________________ 1 Samuel 30:7-8 7 Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Bring me the ephod." Abiathar brought it to him, 8 and David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?" "Pursue them," he answered. "You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue." John 10:27 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 5. God Has ________________________________________________________________ 1 1 Samuel 30:9-10, 21-24 9 David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Ravine, where some stayed behind, 10 for two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the ravine. But David and four hundred men continued the pursuit. 21 Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Ravine. . . 22 But all the evil men and troublemakers among David's followers said, "Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go." 23 David replied, "No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and handed over to us the forces that came against us. 24 Who will listen to what you say? The share of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike." 6. _______________________________ Is a _______________________________________ 1 Samuel 30:16-20 16 He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah. 17 David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. 18 David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. 19 Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back. 20 He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, "This is David's plunder." 2