OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 23

Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

David was a little boy when he killed the giant Goliath.

I Samuel 16:18  –  I Samuel 17:34  –  I Samuel 17:38-39  –  I Samuel 17 all

Fact of the Day 

No!  And double no!   In the chapter before killing the giant, it says this about the “son of Jesse of Bethlehem” ~

  • NIV:  “… he is a brave man and a warrior…”
  • NLT:  “…he is a brave warrior, a man of war…”
  • ESV:  “…a man of valor, a man of war…
  • KJV:  “…a mighty valiant man, and a man of war…”
  • NAS:  “…a valiant mighty man, a warrior…”
  • ASV:  “… a mighty man of valor, and a man of war…”
  • ERV:  “…a mighty man of valour, and a man of war…”

Saul was probably around 7 feet tall.  Yet they put Saul’s tunic on David, then his armor, then his helmet, then his sword. 

  • It does not say he tripped over the bottom of Saul’s tunic.
  • It does not say Saul’s armor weigh him down so much he could not move.  
  • It does not say Saul’s helmit slipped over to one side and almost fell off because David’s head was so small.
  • It does not say that, with the additional weigh of the huge sword over the armor that David fell over to one side.

It says David walked around in it and said he was not used to it.  

Oh, and one other thing:  He sometimes killed a lion or a bear when they tried to carry off one of his father’s sheep for dinner.  Killed any lions or bears lately?

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 22

Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

Saul of Israel was always a bad king.

I Samuel 13:1  –  I Samuel 14:47-52

Fact of the Day 

No!  For over 40 years, King Saul fought all of Israel’s enemies valiantly.  Look it up.  Check it out. At the end, it was jealousy – of his imagined enemy – that destroyed him.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 21

Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

Only men from the tribe of Levi and direct descendants of Aaron (Moses’ brother) were allowed to be priests and high priests. 

Numbers 18:1-24  – I Samuel 1:1-2  –   I Samuel 1:11  –  I Samuel 1:25-28  –  I Samuel 2:12 & 17  –  I Samuel 2: 22-26 & 35  –  I Samuel 3:10-11  –  I Samuel 3:19-21  –  I Samuel 7:9  –  I Samuel 13:8 – 13a  –  I Chronicles 6:1, 25-38

Fact of the Day 

Yes and No!  God made this law, he can change it, and  he did – once.  God made one exception to his Only-Levite and Only-Descendant-of-Aaron rule.  Once again, that exception was a little boy.   

When High Priest Eli, a descendant of Aaron, could not control his thieving and adulterous priestly sons, God decided to destroy Eli’s entire family and make Samuel the next High Priest.  But, how could that be?  Samuel’s father was from the tribe of Ephriam, not the tribe of Levi.  And he certainly was not a descendant of Aaron.

Apparently, when Samuel’s mother, Hannah, took little Samuel around age two to four to the tabernacle for Eli to raise, Eli adopted Samuel.  And the night that God spoke directly to boy Samuel from the angel-wings cover of the Ark of the Covenant, that was Samuel’s initiation directly by God.  

Samuel’s later descendants are listed in Chronicles as Levites.  God himself qualified Samuel to be high priest.  Oh, and that’s how Samuel’s grandson became that famous Levitical singer in the temple decades later we talked about a few days ago.

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Scripture for Monday, July 3 (7/3)

The scripture for today, July 3 (7/3) is Acts 7:3 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

REV-Cover-Kindle” ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’ “

This is part of a speech by Christian Stephen soon after the church began. He was reminding the Jewish leaders how God told their ancestor Abraham to leave his religion, home and family, and move to where God had something special for him ~ to begin the Jewish nation and religion.

But when Stephen got to the part where now God wanted them to leave the Jewish religion and move on to a still better one ~ the Christian religion ~ they got mad. They were not like Abraham; they did not want to change. So, not liking the message, they killed the messenger. These religious leaders stoned Stephen to death.

It is hard to change. It takes a great big “leap of faith.” But when God does the recommending, we can know he has something special in mind for us. So, if you have been learning new things in the Bible you did not realize were there,  gear up and get ready for that leap!

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