Difficult Doeg Series

THE VERY RELATABLE LIFE OF KING DAVID

DIFFICULT DOEG

1 SAMUEL 21:1-9, 22:6-23, PSALM 52

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INTRODUCTION

We are currently in a time when we are looking deeper at the life of King David in the Bible. His life is given to us as a gift in that we see the ups and downs of his life in detail. There is much about David’s life that is very relatable for us and helps us apply what we read in the Bible. As I prayed about it and read and thought, chapters 21-22 in 1 Samuel have three sermons in them. Three messages that would be beneficial for us.

One sermon in these chapters is how David escapes to the city of Gath. I am not quite sure why David goes to Gath… because Goliath was from there and you know David is no hero there… but he does and ends up acting crazy to get himself out of a bad situation. Duh. The passage connects to Psalm 34, which David wrote during this time, and Psalm 34 is quoted in 1 Peter 3 in The New Testament and the message would eventually probably settle on 1 Peter 3:8.

READ 1 PETER 3:8 (ESV)

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

There’s another sermon in these chapters is about how David ends up escaping to a place called the cave of Adullam and he begins to gather around him some rebels and those in distress and in the middle of all of that he makes sure he honors his father and mother and keeps them safe from the mess he is in. Honoring our parents is included in the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:12 and Deuteronomy 5:16 and can be a hassle or a chore or a blessing, but is a command of God to be obeyed.

Then, there is another sermon about the priests of God at Nob and how they are killed by King Saul because they helped David who is on the run from Saul. Saul, you might remember, wants to kill David because he is jealous and going a bit crazy. There is some lying, some unfair treatment, snitches who get no stitches, and the events even connect to Psalm 52 which David writes during this time.

It is this last option we are going to investigate today.

TRANSITION

1 Samuel 18-20, the chapters before this, show the increasing jealousy and anger and hate-filled actions of King Saul towards David. David had done good to Saul, but in response, he’d made some friends and made some enemies and unfortunately, King Saul is an enemy and David goes on the run. 1 Samuel 21 picks up when David arrives at Nob.

SITUATION

READ 1 Samuel 21:1-9 (ESV)

Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?” 2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place. 3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.” 4 And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.” 5 And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?” 6 So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the LORD, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away. 7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen. 8 Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.” 9 And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”