Living Room Study

1 Samuel 26
 
“But David said to Abishai, ‘Don’t destroy him, (Saul) for who can lift a hand against the Lord’s anointed and be blameless?’  David added, ‘As the Lord lives, the Lord will certainly strike him down: either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.  However, [...]

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Genesis 24
 
“The servant said to him, ‘Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land?  Should I have your son go back to the land he came from?’  Abraham answered him, ‘Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.  The Lord, the God of Heaven, who took me from my father’s [...]

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Genesis 23
 
“Abraham bowed down to the people of the land and said to Ephron in the presence of the people of the land, ‘Please listen to me.  Let me pay the price of the field.  Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.’  Ephron answered Abraham and said to him, ‘My lord, [...]

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1 Samuel 25
 
“When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, ‘Praise the Lord who championed my cause against Nabal’s insults and restrained His servant from doing evil.  The Lord brought Nabal’s evil deeds back on his own head.’  Then David sent messengers to speak to Abigail about marrying him.”  1 Samuel 25:39
 
Nabal was rough [...]

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1 Samuel 24
 
“When Saul came to the sheep pens across the road, a cave was there, and he went in to relieve himself.  David and his men were staying in the back of the cave, so they said to him, ‘Look, this is the day the Lord told you about: “I will hand your enemy [...]

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Genesis 21
 
“The Lord came to Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what He had promised.  Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.  Abraham named his son who was born to him – the one Sarah bore [...]

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1 Samuel 23
 
“David was in the wilderness of Ziph in Horesh when he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.  Then Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and encouraged him in his faith in God, saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, for my father Saul will never lay a hand on you.  [...]

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Genesis 20
 
“Abraham replied, ‘I thought: “There is absolutely no fear of God in this place.  They will kill me because of my wife.”  Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father, though not the daughter of my mother.  So when God had me wander from my father’s house, I said to her: [...]

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Genesis 19
 
“Early in the morning, Abraham went tot the place where he had stood before the Lord.  He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw that smoke going up from the land like the smoke of a furnace.  So it was when God destroyed the cities [...]

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1 Samuel 21
 
“So the priest gave him (David) the consecrated bread, for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord.  When the bread was removed, it had been replaced with warm bread.”  1 Samuel 21:6
 
David has nobody he can count on.  There are no [...]

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