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In this study:

• A brief review of chapters 16-20
• David’s encounter with Ahimelech at Nob
• A brief history of the tabernacle and the ark
• How Jesus used this encounter to emphasize that people were more important than the ceremonial law or the holiness code
• The significance of the Urim and the Thummim
• David’s flight to Philistia and it’s consequences, including Psalms written at this time
• David at Adullam. How the group of 400 men who came out to him typifies our relationship with Christ
• Alan Redpath quotes
• Significance of the Psalms that David wrote from Adullam
• Why David decided to leave his parents in Moab
• Introduction to the prophet Gad
• Overview of some of the ways that God encouraged David during these difficult days
• How Saul played the role of a victim
• How Doeg, under orders from Saul, slaughtered all the priests, their families, and the livestock.
• The Psalm (about Doeg) that David wrote after the single escapee from the slaughter of the priests, Abiathar, came to him
• How David’s deliverance of the town of Keilah from the Philistines contrasts with Saul and Nob

Stay in the Battle!

Steve

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