2 Samuel 11. Why? After all the victories, the success, the acceptance. Why the story of 2 Samuel 11? Everyone who has been a believer for even a little while knows the answer to this question. The human heart is deceitful above all things, and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I SAMUEL concluded... 1. I Samuel 31 and II Samuel 1. How does the historian in I Samuel know the outcome of the story here, if both men died? Does the Amalekite (II Samuel 1) help finish Saul’s suicide? Or is he lying to impress David? Saul...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What did the witch of Endor really do? 1 Samuel 28:3-20, You all know the story, though we will go over it, a piece at a time. The question is, and it has been asked for centuries, Did this woman truly bring Samuel back from the dead, or was...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I Samuel 25:19. What lesson do we learn from Abigail and her “betrayal” of a wicked man who happens to be her husband? What about the names she uses to describe her spouse? So is it proper to be disrespectful in this way to a man who...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I Samuel 17:55. Is this chapter out of order? I ask this question because it has always intrigued me that Saul would not know young David, who had, if the flow of the text is properly ordered, for some time now been his musical comforter. Or, is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I Samuel 10:9. When God changes the heart, is it not a permanent thing? Once saved, always saved, we want to say. At least I want to say that. I have seen enough Scriptures on this side of things to believe that God does indeed choose us unto...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I SAMUEL I Samuel 1:11. Why was the absence of a razor, as in the Nazirite vow, a holy thing? Some say that the growing of hair is the expression of strength, a symbol of God’s power upon a person. Note the difference today between such a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Judges 11:34-39. Does the text say that Jephthah killed his daughter? Perhaps this one will be debated until Jesus comes. A literalist who stands for the integrity of the text, I have always maintained that this is indeed what he did. “He...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Joshua 10:13. What is the Book of Jasher? From Gotquestions.org: “Also known as the ‘Book of the Upright One’ in the Greek Septuagint and the ‘Book of the Just Ones’ in the Latin Vulgate, the Book of Jasher was...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Joshua 6. Could God have simply blown down the walls of every town in Canaan? Yes, just as He could so easily blow all our troubles away. But that, we find all through Scripture, is not His way. He works in us, through us, with us, to accomplish...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
