_Then came David to Nob._ ALMOST GONE It is not easy to walk with God. I. The steps of David’s declension. The first sign of what was impending was his remark to Jonathan, that there was but a step between himself and death (1 Samuel 20:3). Evidently his faith was beginning to falter; for nothing... [ Continue Reading ]
_A certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord._ DOEG THE EDOMITE Doeg was “detained there before the Lord.” How or why he “was detained before the Lord,” we are not informed. Doeg the Edomite was “detained there that day before the Lord,” and with his eyes upt... [ Continue Reading ]
_The king’s business required haste._ HASTE! HASTE! 1. We are always called upon to work as if we had but one day to work in. 2. Such impetuosity need not involve carelessness. 3. The most deliberate things are to be done with the intensest earnestness, and the intensest earnestness is never to... [ Continue Reading ]
_And David said, There is none like that: give it me._ GOLIATH’S SWORD I. First, then, the history of Goliath’s sword. See it, in the first instance, hanging at the giant’s side. The man himself is mighty. Hark how he challenges the hosts of Israel. The after history of this sword is interesting. W... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he changed his behaviour before them._ DAVID SCRABBLING AT THE GATE Taking the behaviour of David as a suggestion, I wish to tell you how many of the wise, and the brave, and the regal sometimes play the fool. I. I remark that those men as badly play the fool as this man of the text, who in... [ Continue Reading ]