The Bobbit Scandal...B.C. (David & Saul: Round One)

When we last left our young David, he had toppled a giant name Goliath with stone. The king of Israel, named Saul, had lost favor with God and was jealous of David’s walk.

So David was offered the hand of Merab, Saul’s daughter, in marriage…but David refuses. Big Daddy Saul starts to see David as more and more of a threat and was growing very jealous of his popularity with the ladies…I’ve always said you can be the ugliest guy on Earth and if you can play an instrument (David and his harp) you can get girls!! That and I suppose the whole shy farm boy (accent and all) that slew the giant went quite some distance around the mead tent!!

So Big Daddy Saul sends David out on these military campaigns in hopes of having him killed (Remember this later!!) and the boy is bullet proof…or spear proof!! He just won’t die!! So a new plan is devised…Mwuhahahaha….

Saul knew that David and his other daughter, Michal, were in love…so Saul blessed this union with the intent to snare David in a trap! He said to David with a grin: “Suuuuurree!! You can marry Michal!! Umm…all you have to do is go bring your king the foreskins of 100 uncircumcised Philistines….Simple.”

Saul replied, "Say to David, 'The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.' " Saul's plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines. – 1 Samuel 18:25

Hold the phone!! I’m pretty sure my animated response would have been: “Let me get this straight…you want me to go circumcise a hundred grown men in order to marry your daughter??? I mean…she’s hot and all, but really?? Thanks but no thanks!!”

But…the Bible says that David was excited!! He gathered his men and they rode out to start “gathering”!!

Sometime later, David returned and as he stood in front of Saul (much to Saul’s dismay I am sure!), he presented TWO HUNDRED foreskins to Saul!!

Now…take a moment and think of what a gruesome scene THAT was!! Ugh!!

Saul realized that David was in The Lord’s favor and hated him for the rest of his days…and the more and more the Philistines attacked, the more David won!!

Okay…this is a seemingly gruesome story with not much content, but here’s a few things I see:

1 – Saul was sly! He was jealous of David’s relationship with God. As a result, Saul relentlessly went after David…scheming against him constantly! Now…We know that David knew of Saul’s intent, but he continued to serve regardless and through The Lord’s favor and his own faith, he continued to be successful!! I seem to encounter more and more Christians that seem more concerned with serving a political agenda then serving The Lord recently! It ranges between simply disliking and wishing failure on Obama to full blown ignoring the Ten Commandments (or even more important in my eyes: The two commandments that Jesus gave) in military and political gatherings.

What would happen if we just trusted God and His Word? What would happen if we loved our neighbors as ourselves…even the Muslims, gays, abortionists, etc. instead of serving a political agenda that we see as wrong? The Bible is full of great men of God that served kings that they vehemently disagreed with: Daniel, David, Paul, even Jesus!!

I realize that everyone has things that they are passionate about…and debate can be good…but just imagine if all agendas were set aside and we made spreading the Word of God and telling people about the love of Jesus our ONLY agenda?? Wouldn’t all the other things you and I speak out about be covered under that umbrella in the process??

2 – David was asked to bring 100 foreskins to his king. He brought 200! Now most scholars say that this showed David’s zeal and he always served over and beyond. I can see that…BUT…I see this as David making a statement to Saul!! David served TWO kings…and Earthly king and a Heavenly King…therefore when asked to bring back 100 for his king…David needed 100 for EACH. (Just my thoughts)

3 – I think it’s cool that David was offered Saul’s first daughters hand in marriage and he passed. This showed that David was not in it for the greed. He waited and married for love!! HUGE!!

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