THE BELIEF that the Philistines were giants (or had giants among them) with six fingers and toes on their hands and feet comes from 2 Samuel 21. That’s not necessarily what those verses mean.Continue Reading
POLITICS IN David’s day was just brutal and bloody as it is today.Continue Reading
DAVID WAS NOT a good father. That’s obvious from the way his own children treated each other—and him.Continue Reading
DAVID’S KINGDOM expanded outward in all directions, possibly reaching as far as the Euphrates in northern Syria.Continue Reading
THE DEATH OF SAUL and his three eldest sons triggered a power struggle among the tribes of Israel, as you’d expect anytime humans and politics are involved.Continue Reading
THE REBELLION of Absalom has been quashed but a new one rises up in its place.Continue Reading