Joan
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Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 22:16-17 NLT
“You will surely die, Ahimelech, along with your entire family!” the king shouted. And he ordered his bodyguards, “Kill these priests of the LORD, for they are allies and conspirators with David! They knew he was running away from me, but they didn’t tell me!” But Saul’s men refused to kill the LORD’s priests.
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 22:15 NLT
This was certainly not the first time I had consulted God for him! May the king not accuse me and my family in this matter, for I knew nothing at all of any plot against you.”
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 22:13-14 NLT
“Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me?” Saul demanded. “Why did you give him food and a sword? Why have you consulted God for him? Why have you encouraged him to kill me, as he is trying to do this very day?” “But sir,” Ahimelech replied, “is anyone among all your servants as faithful as David, your son-in-law? Why, he is the captain of your bodyguard and a highly honored member of your household!
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 22:10 NLT
Ahimelech consulted the LORD for him. Then he gave him food and the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 22:9 NLT
Then Doeg the Edomite, who was standing there with Saul’s men, spoke up. “When I was at Nob,” he said, “I saw the son of Jesse talking to the priest, Ahimelech son of Ahitub.
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 22:3-4 NLT
Later David went to Mizpeh in Moab, where he asked the king, “Please allow my father and mother to live here with you until I know what God is going to do for me.” So David’s parents stayed in Moab with the king during the entire time David was living in his stronghold.
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 22:1 NLT
So David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. Soon his brothers and all his other relatives joined him there.
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 21:14-15 NLT
Finally, King Achish said to his men, “Must you bring me a madman? We already have enough of them around here! Why should I let someone like this be my guest?”
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 21:12-13 NLT
David heard these comments and was very afraid of what King Achish of Gath might do to him. So he pretended to be insane, scratching on doors and drooling down his beard.
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 21:8-10 NLT
So David escaped from Saul and went to King Achish of Gath. David asked Ahimelech, “Do you have a spear or sword? The king’s business was so urgent that I didn’t even have time to grab a weapon!” “I only have the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah,” the priest replied. “It is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. Take that if you want it, for there is nothing else here.” “There is nothing like it!” David replied. “Give it to me!”
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 21:7 NLT
Now Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief herdsman, was there that day, having been detained before the LORD.
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 21:6 NLT
Since there was no other food available, the priest gave him the holy bread—the Bread of the Presence that was placed before the LORD in the Tabernacle. It had just been replaced that day with fresh bread.
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 21:5 NLT
“Don’t worry,” David replied. “I never allow my men to be with women when we are on a campaign. And since they stay clean even on ordinary trips, how much more on this one!”
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 21:4 NLT
“We don’t have any regular bread,” the priest replied. “But there is the holy bread, which you can have if your young men have not slept with any women recently.”
Nov 7
Joan
highlighted Psalms 73:24 NLT
You guide me with your counsel, leading me to a glorious destiny.
Nov 6
Joan
highlighted Jeremiah 18:11-13 NLT
“Therefore, Jeremiah, go and warn all Judah and Jerusalem. Say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am planning disaster for you instead of good. So turn from your evil ways, each of you, and do what is right.’” But the people replied, “Don’t waste your breath. We will continue to live as we want to, stubbornly following our own evil desires.” So this is what the LORD says: “Has anyone ever heard of such a thing, even among the pagan nations? My virgin daughter Israel has done something terrible!
Nov 6
Joan
highlighted Jeremiah 18:6 NLT
“O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.
Nov 6
Joan
highlighted Psalms 59:16-17 NLT
But as for me, I will sing about your power. Each morning I will sing with joy about your unfailing love. For you have been my refuge, a place of safety when I am in distress. O my Strength, to you I sing praises, for you, O God, are my refuge, the God who shows me unfailing love.
Nov 6
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 20:41-42 NLT
As soon as the boy was gone, David came out from where he had been hiding near the stone pile. Then David bowed three times to Jonathan with his face to the ground. Both of them were in tears as they embraced each other and said good-bye, especially David. At last Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for we have sworn loyalty to each other in the LORD’s name. The LORD is the witness of a bond between us and our children forever.” Then David left, and Jonathan returned to the town.
Nov 6
Joan
highlighted 1 Samuel 20:32-34 NLT
“But why should he be put to death?” Jonathan asked his father. “What has he done?” Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan, intending to kill him. So at last Jonathan realized that his father was really determined to kill David. Jonathan left the table in fierce anger and refused to eat on that second day of the festival, for he was crushed by his father’s shameful behavior toward David.
Nov 6