April 19, 2020. I Samuel 19:8-17 (PM Service)

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WIFE PROTECTOR. I SAMUEL 19:8-17. PM. 04/19/2020. #61.

I Samuel 19:8-17 [New King James Version (NKJV)]

⁸ And there was war again; and David went out and fought with the Philistines, and struck them with a mighty blow, and they fled from him. ⁹ Now the distressing spirit from the Lord came upon Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing music with his hand. ¹⁰ Then Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away from Saul’s presence; and he drove the spear into the wall. So David fled and escaped that night. ¹¹ Saul also sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” ¹² So Michal let David down through a window. And he went and fled and escaped. ¹³ And Michal took an image and laid it in the bed, put a cover of goats’ hair for his head, and covered it with clothes. ¹⁴ So when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” ¹⁵ Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” ¹⁶ And when the messengers had come in, there was the image in the bed, with a cover of goats’ hair for his head. ¹⁷ Then Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this, and sent my enemy away, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’”

• A good link with bad results
  • Saul had tried to kill David, but Jonathan intervened
  • David then goes forth with more military success
    • Philistines are crushed, slaughtered, and routed
    • This produces more jealousy in Saul
  • David proved to be loyal, effective, and focused
    • David was not against Saul, nor after his position
    • Saul’s position was greatly enhanced by David’s success
• Saul’s tormented Soul
  • Once again Saul’s soul is engulfed by a tormenting spirit
    • Saul still does not repent (would remove torment)
    • Saul seethes as he grips his spear
  • David plays the harp to soothe Saul (another service to him)
    • Jealous people fume at the good deeds of others
    • Saul stews over David’s success and popularity
  • In a rage Saul attempts to pin David to the wall with his spear
    • David probably assumes Saul’s action was from madness
    • Saul’s actions were from rage and not insanity (personal)
• A protective wife
  • David escapes Saul’s presence @ night
  • Saul sent messengers to surround his house (Ps. 59:3 lay in wait)
  • David’s wife, Michal, warns David and helps his escape
    • Michal loves David
    • Saul expects his daughter to be loyal to him as Dad and king
    • Michal engineers David’s escape out a window (like Paul)
    • Michal claims David threatened her (to save her life)
    • David later makes the return of Michal to him as the condition for coming back to take the throne
    • David later rebukes Michal for rebuking him when he danced before the ark in his loin cloth upon its return
  • Michal’s actions buy David enough time to make good his escape
    • She puts an image (a teraphim–idol) under a blanket with goat hair sticking out where the head would be
    • She tells the messengers that David is sick
    • Saul commands that David be brought to him on his bed
  • Saul demands to know why Michal supports his enemy
    • Versus 5 Jonathan asked why Saul had made David his enemy
    • Saul imagined that David was his enemy
    • David does not view Saul as his enemy (supported Saul)
  • David is pro-Saul and pro-Israel
• The lot of the falsely accused
  • David had done right by Saul
  • Saul’s jealousy fueled his imagination
    • He presumed a false scenario in David’s heart
    • David could not prove his innocence of heart
  • 1 Sam. 16:7 only God can see a heart attitude
    • Proverbs 18:13 it is foolish to presume what is in someone’s heart
    • Hard to dissuade a person against a believed falsehood
  • David does not turn himself into Saul’s enemy
    • Romans 12:12-21 David could have responded in kind to Saul
    • David still honors Saul as Israel’s anointed king
  • David stayed true to Saul
    • He didn’t become bitter (destroy self and his calling)
    • He refused to take vengeance (Psalm 59 rescued in morning)
    • David continued to do what was right
    • David turned Saul and situation over to Lord (his way and time)