SERIES J --- THE WARRIOR KING --- LESSON 02

IN THE WILDERNESS

IN THE CAVE OF ADULLAM

From 1 Samuel 22

David had an uneasy feeling about the Philistines at Gath and what they might do to him, so he slipped away, escaping to the Cave of Adullam where his brothers and his father’s family came to live also. Before long there was quite a company who had joined him: those in trouble, in debt and those who were unhappy about the way things were going. David was soon the leader of about four hundred men. It became obvious that his parents were not comfortable living in a cave, so David took them down to Mizpah in Moab and talked with the king of Moab about them. ‘Let my father and mother live with you until I know what YHVH will do for me,’ David requested. During the time when David remained at the Cave of Adullam, his parents lived in Moab. But word came from the prophet Gad that David should move again. ‘You must not stay here,’ Gad told David. ‘You must go into the land of Judah.’ David’s move took him to the forest of Hereth in the land of Judah. The news of David’s hiding place reached Saul while he was sitting under an oak tree at Gibeah, fingering his spear. As usual, Saul had a temper tantrum, shouting his anger at his officers who sat there with him. ‘Listen, you Benjamites!’ he roared. ‘Why are you all conspiring against me? Has David promised you fields and vineyards or has he promised to make you commanders in his army? Not one of you ever told me that my son Jonathan made a covenant with David! Not one of you is sorry for me because my son has stirred David to come against me to kill me.’ Doeg the Edomite happened to be there with Saul’s men that day. ‘One day I was at Nob,’ he said. ‘David visited Ahimelech the priest who asked Adonai what David should do and even gave him food and Goliath’s sword.’ Immediately Saul sent for Ahimelech and his family, along with all the priests of Nob. ‘Listen, son of Ahitub!’ Saul shouted when Ahimelech arrived with the priests. ‘Yes, your majesty,’ Ahimelech answered, trembling. ‘Why have you conspired with David against me?’ Saul demanded. ‘Why have you given him bread and a sword and sought Adonai’s direction for him so that he could revolt against me?’ ‘But who is as faithful to you as David?’ Ahimelech asked Saul. ‘Isn’t he your own son-in-law and captain of your bodyguard and an honoured member of your household? Is this the first time I asked YHVH’s direction for him? Certainly not! I didn’t know of the problems between you and David, so you must not blame me or my family for that.’ But Saul would not believe him. ‘You will die, Ahimelech!’ Saul ordered. ‘You will die with all your family.’ Saul immediately issued orders for his guards. ‘Kill these priests!’ he shouted. ‘They knew that David was escaping and helped him and would not even tell me.’ But Saul’s guards would not kill the priests of YHVH. Then Saul turned to Doeg. ‘You kill them!’ he ordered. Without hesitation, Doeg murdered all eighty-five priests, who were still wearing their priestly robes. Then he went to Nob and killed the families of the priests, including every man, woman, child, baby, ox, donkey and sheep. Only one man escaped, Abiathar, one of Abimelech’s sons and he fled to David. When Abiathar reported this massacre, David responded sadly, ‘I knew that Doeg would tell Saul that I had come to Nob. I have caused your whole family to be murdered. Stay here with me and I will protect you with my life. Anyone who wants to kill you must kill me first.’

COMMENTARY

ROYAL COURIERS

Where can a person hide if the king of his country is determined to kill him? David finally settled on a wilderness cave. No one dared help David. King Saul even killed priests of Adonai who had earlier given David bread and weapons. The fact that the priests thought David was on a mission for the king did not turn Saul’s mad anger. Communications were slow in Bible times. Without the conveniences of telephones or postal routes, people relied on human messengers to deliver important information. Each town had at least one man for hire who carried messages. The king had his own company of couriers. They were always at hand, ready to deliver important communications across town or to the farthest corners of the East. Short trips were made on foot by individual runners, but on long journeys messengers travelled in pairs. The extra man discouraged robbers and increased the chances of delivery. Even if disaster delayed one, the second carried the communication to its goal. The hardships of the road were only the beginning of the dangers a courier met. If he carried bad news, he felt the receiver’s anger. Furious kings were known to kill or imprison messengers who delivered unwelcome news. But the courier’s job had its rewards as well as its dangers. As the representative of the sender, he received a royal welcome in the court of a friendly king. He was clothed in rich robes and entertained lavishly. Usually, the courier carried a written message, prepared by a scribe and sealed with the royal insignia but secret information was not written down for fear that it might fall into the wrong hands. A courier delivering information affecting the outcome of a battle, for example, delivered his message aloud. The courier’s work was not over even when he had successfully delivered his message. Frequently he served as a spy, with orders to bring back as much information as he could gather. For this reason, a courier from a hostile king was closely guarded by escorts who did not leave his side until he was safely out of their country.

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SERIES J --- THE WARRIOR KING --- LESSON 01

DAVID FLEES

A TASTE OF HOLY BREAD FROM

1 Samuel 20:30-21:15

Saul was violently angry when Jonathan told him that David had left for Bethlehem. ‘You stubborn, rebellious brat!’ Saul roared. ‘Don’t you realize that I know you want that son of a nobody to be king instead of you? Don’t you know that you’re dishonouring yourself and your mother? You’ll never be king as long as Jesse’s son is alive. Now bring him here so we can kill him.’ ‘Why?’ Jonathan asked. ‘What has he done? Why do you want to kill him?’ Saul exploded with anger and threw his spear at Jonathan, intending to pin him to the wall. There was no doubt left in Jonathan’s mind now; he knew for certain that Saul wanted to kill David. Jonathan got up from the table with a burning anger and refused to eat food that day, grieved because of Saul’s disgraceful conduct toward David. When morning came, Jonathan went to the field where David was hiding. He took a little boy with him to chase his arrows. ‘Go find these arrows when I shoot them,’ Jonathan ordered. The boy started running and Jonathan shot an arrow over his head. ‘Hurry! Run!’ Jonathan shouted when the boy was almost to the arrow. ‘It’s just beyond you.’ The boy quickly gathered Jonathan’s arrows and ran back with them. He didn’t understand that this was a signal to David. ‘Now take these back to the city for me,’ Jonathan ordered, giving his bow and arrows to the boy. As soon as the boy was gone, David came from behind the pile of stones and fell on the ground before Jonathan, bowing three times. Then Jonathan and David kissed each other and wept together until David had control of himself. ‘Go in peace,’ Jonathan said. ‘Adonai will be with us and our children forever.’ David escaped in peace while Jonathan returned to the city. David’s first stop was the city of Nob, where he went to see the priest Ahimelech. But when Ahimelech came out to meet David, the priest began to tremble. ‘Why are you alone?’ Ahimelech asked. ‘Why isn’t someone with you?’ ‘The king has sent me on a secret mission,’ said David. ‘He has warned me not to tell anyone why I have come and my young men know only that they are to meet me at a certain place later. Now, do you have something to eat? If you have five loaves of bread, let me have them or anything else you may have.’ ‘The only bread I have is the holy bread, but it is consecrated to Adonai,’ said Ahimelech. ‘You may have it if your young men have kept away from women.’ ‘Don’t worry about that,’ David assured Ahimelech. ‘We never get involved with women on an expedition, especially one such as this. And the mess kits have been consecrated to Adonai; they will be even more so today.’ With no other food to give, Ahimelech let David take the holy bread which had been given to Adonai in the tabernacle. As usual, it had been placed fresh that day. Now it happened that Saul’s chief herdsman was there, an Edomite named Doeg, lingering for ceremonial purification. David also asked Ahimelech for a spear or sword. ‘I had to leave in such a hurry that I couldn’t even get my sword,’ said David. ‘Goliath’s sword is still wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod,’ said Ahimelech. ‘Since you’re the one who killed the Philistine in the valley of Elah, you should take it.’ ‘Good, I’ll take it with me,’ said David. ‘There isn’t another sword like it.’ David hurried from Nob and made his way to Gath, where King Achish of the Philistines ruled. But the king’s attendants were nervous about this. ‘Isn’t he the king of Israel?’ they asked. ‘Isn’t he the one for whom people dance and sing and say ‘Saul has killed his thousands, but David his ten thousands’? When David heard what these men said, he was afraid of King Achish. To make himself look harmless, David pretended that he was insane, making marks on the gate and letting spit run down his beard. ‘Why have you brought this insane man here?’ King Achish complained to his men. ‘We have enough madmen here already without inviting others to my house.’

COMMENTARY

SHOWBREAD

Without weapons or food, David was forced to flee from King Saul. In his discouragement, David slipped over the border into Philistine territory. When he was recognized, David pretended to be insane. The recipe for showbread was a carefully guarded secret passed from one generation to the next. Only the Garmu family of the Levite tribe knew the exact ingredients that went into the twelve loaves. The bread was baked each Friday afternoon before sundown and the beginning of the Shabbat. Only the best ingredients were used: the finest quality oil was mixed with carefully sifted flour. The dough was shaped into twelve round loaves, pierced with a fork and then baked. The freshly baked showbread was carried into the tabernacle at the beginning of the Shabbat. A special ritual accompanied the weekly substitution of the fresh loaves for the old. The Law even set down exactly how they should be arranged on the table; two stacks of six loaves, each topped with a golden bowl of frankincense. Eight priests took part in the Shabbat ceremony. The first two removed the incense bowls and the second pair removed the bread. Two more priests arranged the fresh loaves and the final pair replaced the frankincense. In order to fulfil the commandment of -- Exodus 25:30: [And you shall set the bread on the table before Me at all times]; their actions were performed in an unbroken continuous movement so that the table would not be bare even for a moment. Because the bread and incense were holy, they could not be thrown away. The old frankincense was burned on the altar of sacrifice. When the incense had been consumed, the priests ate the week-old loaves. Half of the bread was given to the high priest and the remainder divided among the assisting priests. Every scrap that was not eaten was burned on the altar of sacrifice. The fresh showbread remained on the table for the rest of the week. The twelve loaves served as a perpetual reminder that YHVH was the Bread of Life for the twelve tribes of the Israelite nation.

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