When Saul offers David the hand of his daughter Merab in marriage, it looks like the hostility from Saul is easing. That is until Saul gives Merab to another man at the last minute.
When Saul's other daughter, Michal, falls for David, Saul offers him her hand as well.
David unable to pay the expected bride price for a princess is given an alternative...kill one hundred Philistines!
Is this Saul being kind to David, or does he have another motive in mind?
While Saul moves in duplicity, and David is put through an emotional wringer, where is God?
On one level we seek to understand what is happening in the natural realm, but then we need to look beyond this to what God is doing in the spiritual realm.
There we unearth an ancient road to brokenness is being laid out before David...
The twenty-fourth teaching in a series studying through the first book of Samuel in the Bible.
Study delivered on Sunday 20th August 2023 by Pastor Matthew Hobbs.
