12 Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul. 13 So he sent David away from him and gave him command over a thousand men, and David led the troops in their campaigns. 14 In everything he did he had great success, because the LORD was with him.
Why did Saul fear this combat? Goliath was trained in the art of warfare since his youth (17:33). Saul feared his skill and training, not his size. The implied criticism is that Saul failed to place his trust in God for both protection and assistance.
And instead of listening to the word of the Lord, Saul took things into his own hands, performing the offerings without Samuel, and then, when he was confronted, he refused to repent and ask for forgiveness. Saul's first sin is directly against God and his word.
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How did Saul fail to obey God?
Saul again disobeyed the Lord by not fulfilling His command to destroy the Amalekites and all of their animals, and the Lord rejected Saul as the king of Israel.
His pride, jealousy, and fear displaced the faith he once had in his heart for God. Saul became spiritually hardhearted and blind to God and to his own sinful acts. Saul led the nation as king for about 42 years, but Saul did not fully obey the Lord, and thereby sinned against God.
In essence, Saul's root character flaw is self-exaltation and self-deception. He thinks he knows better than everyone else, including God. The biggest tragedy is that he's not even aware of it. The story shows he is completely blind to his arrogance and always believes he's in the right.
Our medicine people would call me a seer. But I was in the thrall of a power I never understood. It left me years ago, and the loss of that gift has been my greatest sorrow.
Saul's doubt of God's plan through Jesus Christ made him an instrument of persecution in the early church. But God had a plan to change that doubt to faith, and thereby to make Saul an instrument of a different kind playing in God's symphony of grace.
Og's destruction is told in Psalms 135:11 and 136:20 as one of many great victories for the nation of Israel, and the Book of Amos 2:9 may refer to Og as "the Amorite" whose height was like the height of the cedars and whose strength was like that of the oaks.
This looks like one of those unanswerable questions, but it turns out that the Mormons – and the leaders of the American "Prosperity Gospel" movement – believe they know the answer: God is about 6' 2" tall. (He doesn't use the metric system).
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Chuck evidently suffers from a condition called electromagnetic hypersensitivity. A rare condition in which exposure to electronic devices causes a range of unpleasant physical symptoms. Importantly, it's generally accepted that this is a purely psychosomatic illness.
Because of the rivalry between Gus and Hector, Lalo becomes dedicated to disrupting Gus' legitimate restaurant business Los Pollos Hermanos and Lavandería Brillante, as well as his reputation with the cartel. Unlike his other rivals such as Walter White, Gus was highly fearful of Lalo due to his cunning and resilience.
During his reign, Saul had his greatest successes when he obeyed God. His greatest failures resulted from acting on his own. Saul had the raw materials to be a good leader - appearance, courage, and action. Even his weaknesses could have been used by God if Saul had recognized them and left them in God's hands.
Saul was sexually abused by Father Leboutilier, the person who Saul that had love for him. He loses innocence and a connection with someone whom he looked up too. This too affected his trust and made him feel different around others. He stays too himself a lot, with nobody close with him to even knew he had a brother.
For Saul, disobedience in not following God's instructions had severe consequences. In 1 Samuel 31 many fell dead, all the Israelites were forced to flee, and Saul's army along with his sons were killed. Because of Saul's disobedience, he no longer had the Lord's protection and Philistine arrows found him.
He only obeyed part of God's instructions. King Saul took some of the best animals from the Amalekites and took them home with him. Maybe King Saul thought no one would notice. But God knows everything that people do.
It is suggested by some scholars that Saul suffered from 'depression' or 'heaviness of heart' as a result of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and many other reasons. Others describe Saul's behaviour as it manifests in 1 Samuel 19:23, 24, as epileptic-like fits, possibly exacerbated by the enemy herem principle.
Right before Saul's battle against the Philistines, Saul does not wait for Samuel as he is instructed. Instead, Saul disobeys and offers a sacrifice by himself (1 Samuel 13:9). Because Saul refuses to listen to God, Samuel says he has forfeited the hope of an eternal dynasty in Israel (1 Samuel 13:13).