Taking Hebron

...But as his part is  who goes down to the battle, so shall  his part be who stays by the supplies; they shall share alike." 1 Samuel 30:24 My parents have been to China 4 times. I have never gone.  The other day a lady asked Betsy and I about our dad paying us to stay home with the children when he and my mom traveled to China. I was a bit surprised and Betsy and I informed her that they don't pay us anything to stay home with the children. In 1 Samuel 30 David and his men return home to find all their wives and children had been taken away captive and their city burned.  The Bible says David and the people with him lifted up their voices until they had no more power to weep . Now David inquired of the Lord if they should go after the troop that had done this thing and the Lord assured him that they would overtake them and recover all. David and the men pursued the Amelekites until the Brook Besor, it was there that 200 men stayed behind with the...

I love history, and a number of years ago I bought a framed coin at a garage sale. It has a certificate of authenticity and the history of the coin. I didn’t care much for the frame the coin came in, so I reframed it and now it has been hanging up on my wall. The other night I was looking at it, and wondered how much it might be worth. When I searched it, coins started to come up and I saw one that had sold recently for 3 million dollars! I thought what?!? I dug a little deeper and found that even coins in poor condition were selling for $18,000! What?!? I have a thousand dollar coin hanging on my wall?!? Well the more I thought about my diamond in the rough the more I had to consider it was probably a fake; for there are many replica coins out there and forged certificates of authenticity. I was a bit disappointed to think I had a lie hanging up on my wall and I decided to email a local coin deal to find out the truth. I told him what I had and he agreed with me that it...

So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and there Saul lay sleeping within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the people lay all around him. Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore, please, let me strike him at once with the spear, right to the earth; and I will not have to strike  him a second time!” But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?” David said furthermore, “ As  the LORD lives, the LORD shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go out to battle and perish. “The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed. But please, take now the spear and the jug of water that  are  by his head, and let us go.” So David took the spear and the jug of water  by  Saul’s head, and they got away; and no ...