“The Guards/Servants Refused!”

April 7, 2018

“The Guards/Servants Refused!”

Blessings folk!

We read the extended context yesterday…see it below.

Saul sent for Ahimelech the priest and all the priests of Nob.

Saul then accuses Ahimelech of conspiring with David by providing supplies - bread, sword, inquiring of the Lord - all to the goal of rising against King Saul.

Ahimelech’s response?
Interesting…sorta unexpected.

He defended David…rather than himself.
He pointed out the faithfulness of David to the king.
He reminded Saul that David was his son-in-law.
He noted that David was the captain of the guard.
He noted that David was honored in the house of Saul.

Ahimelech then noted that he had inquired of the Lord for David before.
He then asked Saul to not impute anything to him nor his servants/household.
They all knew nothing of the affair.

Saul cared not.
He decreed that Ahimelech would die.
Saul then commanded his guards/the servants of the king to kill Ahimelech and the priests.

The guards/servants refused!
Why?
I think they heard the truth that Ahimelech had just spoken.
They knew David was innocent.
They knew the Spirit of the Lord was upon David.
They also knew that the Spirit had left Saul.
Saul was becoming worse by the day.

There comes a time when we must stand and refuse.
Refuse the commands of the king that go against the commands of the Lord.
There comes a time to deal with the perverted leadership of state and/or “church”.

These men stood firm and refused.

Or course Doeg, the non-Israelite/Edomite, was more than willing.
He killed all the priests, eighty-five of them.
He then struck the city of Nob.
He killed all the animals.
He killed all the men.
He killed all the women.
He killed al the children.
He killed all the infants.
He killed all…save one, as we will see.

Evil has its day.
But its day of judgment is coming.
Sometimes in the near future.
Definitely in days yet to come.

Read again.
Rejoice that the Lord is victorious!

1Sa 22:8-19
“For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush,
as it is this day.”

Then Doeg the Edomite, who was standing by the servants of Saul, said,
“I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

“He inquired of the LORD for him, gave him provisions,
and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

Then the king sent someone to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub,
and all his father’s household, the priests who were in Nob; and all of them came to the king.

Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.” And he answered, “Here I am, my lord.”

Saul then said to him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he would rise up against me by lying in ambush as it is this day?”

Then Ahimelech answered the king and said,
“And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, even the king’s son-in-law,
who is captain over your guard, and is honored in your house?

“Did I just begin to inquire of God for him today? Far be it from me! Do not let the king impute anything to his servant or to any of the household of my father, for your servant knows nothing at all of this whole affair.”

But the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s household!”

And the king said to the guards who were attending him, “Turn around and put the priests of the LORD to death, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me.” But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hands to attack the priests of the LORD.

Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn around and attack the priests.”
And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests,
and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

And he struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and infants; also oxen, donkeys, and sheep he struck with the edge of the sword.


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