It’s hard to forget the price David paid for his first wife, Michal: 200 Philistine foreskins. (Cue teenage girl saying, “Ewww! Gross!”). Now, there’s only one way a Philistine would part with his foreskin, and that’s if the whole man died. So David was giving Michal’s father, Saul, 200 dead soldiers. That meant Israel’s enemy…
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To Obey Is Better than Sacrifice (Or Is It?)
Drawing by Patrick Murphy: http://inspiredsketch.blogspot.com/ “To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams” (1 Sam. 15:22). This can be a confusing verse. Read one way, it seems God is saying it is better to obey than to sin and need forgiveness. This reading has a certain…