The Philistines muster their armies for full-scale war with Saul and the Israelites. Saul has done the right thing in expelling all the mediums from Israel. But, since God had turned from him and would not answer him, he resorted to a medium. It does not bother me too much to say that God spoke through that medium. It seems so by the evidence. But if so, it was an exception. God's word says to never consult a medium. In fact, mediums are to be stoned to death. David was preparing to go to war in support of Achish, or was he really?
The psalmist praises God for his ‘faithful love’ which ‘endures forever’. In this psalm one sees why the Jews needed such faithful love.
Some of the most famous and often quoted words of the New Testament are in this chapter. Paul continues to compare and contrast God's way vs. the Jewish default way.
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