There are two parts in the Bible: if you miss one, you can forget the rest!

  231) God and Samuel / Samuel and God chap 31 - The Israelites are defeated by the Philistines! - Saul and his three sons die! - The philistines cut Saul’s head! 2 Samuel - David becomes king! - Later he will commit adultery with Bath-Sheba! - He has Bath-Sheba’s husband, Uriah, killed! - Then he takes Bath-Sheba as wife! - David will get into trouble for the rest of his life for what he has done! - David will organize a census of the people against God’s will! - The price: pestilence kills 70,000 Israelites! - Just as Samuel said, human kings would bring big troubles without exception! - And it isn’t different from Solomon with all his wisdom!

  230) God and Samuel / Samuel and God chap 29 - The princes of the Philistines don’t want David to fight with them against the Israelites! - And David leaves them Chap 30 - When David comes back to Ziklag, the Amalekites have burnt it and taken captive all the inhabitants and the possessions! - And he asks God what to do! - God tells him to chase the Amalekites! - And David strikes the Amalekites and gets everything back! - And he comes back to Ziklag! - Thus here we have two attitudes: David keeps obeying god and is blessed and Saul doesn’t and keeps being rejected by God and will end badly! - David should have kept that way but he will become king! - Let’s not forget it!

  229) God and Samuel / Samuel and God chap 28 - Time has come for the philistines and the Israelites to fight! - Saul is afraid because God never answers him! - So he asks his servants for a medium! - Then Saul disguises himself and goes to see her! - He wants to speak to Samuel! - Then the woman realizes he is Saul, the one who put to death mediums according to God’s will! - She thinks he wants to kill her! - But Saul tells her not to be afraid! - As a matter of fact, Saul keeps walking against God! - First, he offers a sacrifice without waiting for Samuel! - Second, he saves a king and possessions he was supposed to destroy! - And he is rejected by God! - Then Samuel never enters in contact with him till his death! - Then he goes to see a medium whereas he shouldn’t do it because it is against God’s will! - And he wants to speak to Samuel after his death whereas Samuel never did it when he was rejected by God! - So of course, He can speak with a spirit but it can’t be Samuel! - A sp

  228) God and Samuel / Samuel and God chap 27 - Finally David decides to escape to the land of the Philistines because he thinks Saul will kill him! - And he raids the Philistines and kill everybody to leave no evidence! - And he tells Achish the Philistine king that he has raided the south of Judah! - Whatever David does he does it according to God’s will! - But he is not yet king!

  227) God and Samuel / Samuel and God chap 26 - Once again Saul goes after David! - Once again David has the possibility to kill Saul but he doesn’t do it! - When Saul hears about it, he returns to his place! - So once again David shows himself as a man of God! - But he is not yet king!

  226) God and Samuel / Samuel and God chap 25 - Nabal is a rich man! - David sends some of his men to Nabal to ask for some food because he protected Nabal’s men! - But Nabal doesn’t care! - So David wants to kill him! - But Abigail, Nabal’s wife, hearing about it, decides to take food for David and his men! - And because of Abigail’s attitude he decides not to kill Nabal! - But God strikes him and he dies! - And David decides to take Abigail as his wife! - Once again David shows himself as a man of God! - But he is not yet king!

  225) God and Samuel / Samuel and God chap 24 - Saul goes to look for David! - And David has the possibility to kill Saul! - But he doesn’t do it because he is the anointed of God! - When Saul realizes that David could have killed him, he goes back home! - Thus David keeps being faithful to God! - But things will change when he becomes king! - It is as Samuel told the Israelites but they didn’t listen to him! - And they paid the price!

  224) God and Samuel / Samuel and God chap 23 - According to God, David fights against the philistines who went against the city of Keilah! - He does everything according to God’s will! - And Saul goes after David! - But David leaves Keilah! - David and Jonathan make a covenant! - Saul is about to capture David! - But he has to leave him alone to go after the Philistines! - Thus David listens to God and God helps him! - But he will become king! - And things will change as usual and as Samuel said!

  223) God and Samuel / Samuel and God chap 22 - Then the king said to Doeg: “You turn and assault the priests!” Immediately Doeg the Edomite went and assaulted the priests himself. He killed on that day 85 men wearing the linen ephod. He also struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the sword; man as well as woman, child as well as infant, bull, donkey, and sheep, he put to the sword. However, one son of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, whose name was Abiathar, escaped and ran away to follow David. Abiathar told David: “Saul has killed the priests of God.” At this David said to Abiathar: “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would be sure to tell Saul. I am personally responsible for the death of everyone in your father’s house. Stay with me. Do not be afraid, for whoever seeks your life seeks my life; you are under my protection.” - Thus 85 men are killed but also the women and the children! - What an abomination! - But God is patient! - And he will strike Saul

  222) God and Samuel / Samuel and God chap 22 - But the king said: “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you along with all your father’s house.” With that the king said to the guards stationed around him: “Turn and kill the priests of God, because they have sided with David! They knew that he was a runaway, and they did not inform me!” But the king’s servants did not want to lift their hands to assault the priests of God. - Saul is completely blind! - He doesn’t care about God anymore! - He fights against him! - He wants to kill God’s priests! - But his servants are not crazy like him, they refuse to kill them! - He acts like a stupid child! - He doesn’t think about the high price he will have to pay! - That is he and all his house are going to receive the same treatment that is death and not a peaceful one!

  221) God and Samuel / Samuel and God chap 22 - Saul now said: “Listen, please, you son of A·hiʹtub!” to which he replied: “Here I am, my lord.” Saul said to him: “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, by giving him bread and a sword and by making an inquiry of God for him? He opposes me and waits in ambush, as is now the case.” At this Ahimelech answered the king: “Who among all your servants is as trustworthy as David? He is the king’s son-in-law and a chief over your bodyguard and honored in your house. Was today the first time I inquired of God for him? What you are saying is unthinkable on my part! Do not let the king hold anything against his servant and against my father’s entire house, for your servant did not know a single thing about any of this.” - Ahimelech tells Saul about everything but Saul doesn’t want to listen! - We can see how Saul progressively goes away from God and from doing what is right! - He is the king so he thinks nobody can oppose hi