Rise And Fall #11 (530pm): Pride Before Fall (1 Samuel 30:1-6)

13/04/2025 33 min
Rise And Fall #11 (530pm): Pride Before Fall (1 Samuel 30:1-6)

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1 Samuel 30:1-6

(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 everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.

(3) When David and his men reached 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. (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.

1 Samuel 31:1-6

(1) Now the Philistines fought against Israel; the Israelites fled before them, and many fell dead on Mount Gilboa. (2) The Philistines were in hot pursuit of Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua. (3) The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded him critically.

(4) Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and run me through and abuse me.”

But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it. (5) When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died with him. (6) So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together that same day.