“For you, Adonai, are my lamp; Adonai lights up my darkness. With you, I can run through a whole troop of men, With my God, I can leap a wall.” -2 Samuel 22:29-30 Verse 29 explains how the Lord repeatedly rescued David when he battled his enemies. We’re told the first step was deliverance from […]

As I’ve mentioned earlier, when it comes to interpreting David’s life and the claims he made in this Psalm here in 2nd Samuel Chapter 22, there’s a huge gap between Judaism and Christianity. The Rabbis insist that David’s claims to sinlessness are true. As hard as it is to believe, the Jewish sages uphold the […]

When David says… “I was pure-hearted toward him and kept myself from my sin. Hence Adonai repaid me for my uprightness, according to my purity in his view.” 2 Samuel 22:24-25 There are two interesting Hebrew words we should take a look at. David is claiming Adonai repaid him for his TZEDEKAH… And this was […]

So we’ve come a long way in examining the gap between David’s behavior and his claiming to be without sin in the following verses: “For I have kept the ways of Adonai, I have not done evil by leaving my God; for all his rulings were before me, I did not depart from his regulations. […]

I wanna continue yesterday’s discussion about why David stayed in God’s favor while Saul was rejected. This logically leads to the question of who exactly does God abandon? To answer that question, let’s take a look at these verses from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. “Don’t you know that unrighteous people will have no […]