“Y’honatan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as he did himself.” -1 Samuel 18:3 Honestly, I don’t think the Complete Jewish Bible translates verse 3 well. The problem is the CJB employs what’s called a dynamic translation. This refers to a method of translation that focuses on conveying the original text’s meaning […]

Today we begin 1st Samuel Chapter 18. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click HERE. For the King James Bible, click HERE. “By the time David had finished speaking to Sha’ul, Y’honatan found himself inwardly drawn by David’s character, so that Y’honatan loved him as he did himself.”-1 Samuel 18:1 Before we dive into our text […]

“When Sha’ul saw David go out to fight the P’lishti, he said to Avner, the army’s commander, ‘Avner, whose son is this boy?’ ‘By your life, O king,’ Avner replied, ‘I don’t know.’  The king said, ‘Find out whose son this boy is.’As David returned from killing the P’lishti, Avner took him and brought him […]

“David took the head of the P’lishti and brought it to Yerushalayim, but he put the armor of the P’lishti in his tent.”-1 Samuel 17:54 So why would David take Goliath’s head to Jerusalem? There’s a lot of debate about this. Some folks say it’s a problem because Jerusalem didn’t even exist during David’s time. […]

“Thus David defeated the P’lishti with a sling and a stone, striking the P’lishti and killing him; but David had no sword in his hand.  Then David ran and stood over the P’lishti, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, and finished killing him, cutting off his head with it.”-1 Samuel 17:50-51 One […]