The reading for Tuesday, March 21, 2023 , is 1 Samuel 26 - 28

1 Samuel 26 - 28

Yesterday, Saul stopped pursuing David. Today, he's back at it. What's with this guy? David once again proves that he could had killed Saul. Saul says that he will stop pursuing David. Is this really the end of it? Also, as I think today about David calling Saul "the Lord's anointed" it reminds me of the Israelite idea that Messiah would be a political ruler. 

David understandably doesn't believe Saul and flees to the enemy, the Philistines. Then David double crosses the Philistines by saying that he's raiding the Israelites, but he's actually raiding the Philistines. 

Saul had put the mediums out of the land. I wonder why they were not killed. Back in Exodus 22:18, the KJV (which is the bits I've memorized) says: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. On a different note regarding this, it seems to me that the name of Samantha Steven's mother on the show, Bewitched, was clearly taken from this passage. Her name was Endora. 

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