'And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of theLord'(v.6)
This led the Lord to chastise them. 'And the anger of theLordwas hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon(v.7). God having overlooked their erring way warns them: 'Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more(v.13). The Lord however cannot deny His divine nature. When they sought Him earnestly we read in vv.15-16 that his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. 'Deliver us only, we pray thee, this day./And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served theLord: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
He grieved for Israel in a manner of speaking brought to His mind his Son 'slain before the foundation of the world.' We shall examine the role of soul.
Jesus the Lover of my Soul (1 Sa.20:17)
The Spirit speaks of the soul of God grieving for Israel, which recalls the manner Jonathan grieved for David because of his Father. "For he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame(1 Sa.20:34)." The Spirit uses the number tag 3 to refer the Son, The mystery of the three arrows explains the nature of Love in the FatherSon relationship. It goes beyond what body of a carnal man (as in the case of Israel) is capable of. The love God correspondingly had for the world, explains it in the verse . John 3:16 "But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter(1 Sa.20:39)".While we speak of the number 3 let us consider the significance of Thirty (3x10) in these verses, vv.3-4
"And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years./ And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. Thirty ass colts invite us to set him in frame of reference with the Son who rode to the city of David.
'And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of theLord'(v.6)
This led the Lord to chastise them. 'And the anger of theLordwas hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon(v.7). God having overlooked their erring way warns them: 'Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more(v.13). The Lord however cannot deny His divine nature. When they sought Him earnestly we read in vv.15-16 that his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. 'Deliver us only, we pray thee, this day./And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served theLord: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
He grieved for Israel in a manner of speaking brought to His mind his Son 'slain before the foundation of the world.' We shall examine the role of soul.
Jesus the Lover of my Soul (1 Sa.20:17)
The Spirit speaks of the soul of God grieving for Israel, which recalls the manner Jonathan grieved for David because of his Father. "For he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame(1 Sa.20:34)." The Spirit uses the number tag 3 to refer the Son, The mystery of the three arrows explains the nature of Love in the FatherSon relationship. It goes beyond what body of a carnal man (as in the case of Israel) is capable of. The love God correspondingly had for the world, explains it in the verse . John 3:16 "But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter(1 Sa.20:39)".While we speak of the number 3 let us consider the significance of Thirty (3x10) in these verses, vv.3-4
"And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years./ And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. Thirty ass colts invite us to set him in frame of reference with the Son who rode to the city of David.
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