#1 samuel

[fredericolimablog]

"O Senhor, contudo, disse a Samuel: "Não considere sua aparência nem sua altura, pois eu o rejeitei. O Senhor não vê como o homem: o homem vê a aparência, mas o Senhor vê o coração"."

1 Samuel 16:7

[godslove]

“For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

—‭1 Samuel 16:7b

[heart-for-god]

1 Samuel 3:10

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Thinking about nephesh being translated "soul" but meaning "being". Thinking about nephesh referring to someone's physical being. Thinking about the lover calling her beloved "The one my nephesh loves." Thinking about Jonathan loving David as his own nephesh. Thinking about Jonathan's nephesh being knit to the nephesh of David.

Now what the heck could that mean???

[hiddenplacx]

[rabbitprayer]

1 Samuel 24:12 | David Spares Saul, Horace Castrelli, 19th c | 1 Samuel 24:17 | Saul and David in the Cave of En-Gedi, Willem de Poorter, 17th c | 1 Samuel 25:33 | Abigail throws herself at David’s feet, Weltchronik, 14th c

[aspirant1598]

[versiculosbiblicos]

[booksofthebiblebracketpoll]

1 Samuel propaganda: none

Joshua propaganda: none

[fredericolimablog]

"Pois a rebeldia é como o pecado da feitiçaria; a arrogância, como o mal da idolatria. Assim como você rejeitou a palavra do Senhor, ele o rejeitou como rei."

1 Samuel 15:23

[godslove]

[heart-for-god]

1 Samuel 2:2

[craigtowens]

Just Knowing Or Really Knowing?

I wonder how well you know the word “know”? Let’s find out on this episode of The Podcast.

Listen to the podcast of this post by clicking on the player below, and you can also subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Audible.  https://craigtowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/just-knowing-or-really-knowing.mp3 I wonder how well you know the word “know”? Let’s find out. Check out this episode of The Podcast. Here are some helpful resources from this episode: The Scriptures I referenced are 1…

[biblebloodhound]

Fear or Faith? (1 Samuel 13:23-14:23)

The opposite of faith is not unbelief; it’s fear.

The pass at Micmash had meanwhile been secured by a contingent of the Philistine army. One day Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on, let’s go over to where the Philistines have their outpost.” But Jonathan did not tell his father what he was doing. Meanwhile, Saul and his 600 men were camped on the outskirts of Gibeah, around the pomegranate tree at Migron. Among Saul’s men was Ahijah…

[rabbitprayer]

> be me, a medium in endor

> mfw king saul outlaws all mediums and those who consult spirits of the dead in israel

> guy shows up at my house asking me to call up the spirit of a dead guy

> wtf.jpg

> I ask him if he's trying to get me killed

> he swears an oath in the name of the Lord that nothing bad will happen to me

> okayyyyy

> he asks me to call up samuel?? I do

> old guy wrapped in a robe comes out of the earth and he looks pissed

> I realize that the guy who asked me to call him is king saul in disguise

> WHATTHEHELL.jpg

> saul asks ghost samuel what to do since God has left him

> ghost samuel says that the Lord has torn the kingdom away from saul and given it to his rival, david. he will hand saul, his sons, and the army of israel over to the philistines tomorrow.

> Saul falls on the ground

> I try to get the guy to sit up, eat something, anything. get this guy out of my house already.

> his entourage comes in and see the situation.

> they get him off the floor and onto my couch at least. they're begging him to eat.

> I go outside and kill the calf that I've been fattening, cook the meat, then make some unleavened bread from scratch. when I bring the meal to saul and his goons, they eat it and leave without saying thank you or tipping.

what do I even do after that? advice?

[sag-dab-sar]

Deity Dagan

Originally a god of West Semitic speakers from the Levant, but worshipped widely throughout the Near East, including Mesopotamia.

Deity of grain, as well as its cultivation and storage. Indeed, the common word for "grain" in Ugaritic and Hebrew is dagan. According to one Sumerian tradition and to the much later Philo of Byblos, Dagan invented the plow. In the north, he was sometimes identified with Adad. Thus, he may have had some of the characteristics of a storm god. In one tradition his wife was Ishara, in another Salas, usually wife of Adad. Salas was originally a goddess of the Hurrians. Dagan also had netherworld connections. According to an Assyrian composition, he was a judge of the dead in the lower world, serving with Nergal and Misa-ru(m), the god of justice. A tradition going back at least to the fourth century BCE identified Dagan as a fish god, but it is almost certainly incorrect, presumably having been based upon a false etymology that interpreted the element "Dag" in Dagan as deriving from the Hebrew word dag "fish."

The earliest mentions of him come from texts that indicate that, in Early Dynastic times, Dagan was worshipped at Ebla. Dagan was taken into the Sumerian pantheon quite early as a minor god in the circle of Enlil at Nip-pur. Kings of the Old Akkadian peri-od, including Sargon and Narām-Sin, credited much of their success as conquerors to Dagan. Sargon recorded that he "prostrated (himself in prayer before Dagan in Tutul [sic]" (Oppen-heim, ANET: 268). At the same time, he gave to the god a large area of the country he had just conquered, including Mari, Ebla, and larmuti in western Syria. A number of letters from the Mari archives, dated mainly to the reign of Zimri-Lim, record that Dagãn was a source of divine revela-tion. The letters reported prophetic dreams, a number of which came from Dagan, conveyed by his prophets and ecstatics. In his law code, Hammu-rapi credits Dagan with helping him subdue settlements along the Euphrates.

The Assyrian king Samsi-Adad I commissioned a temple for him at Terqa, upstream from Mari, where funeral rites for the Mari Dynasty took place.

In the Old Babylonian period, kings of the Amorites erected temples for Dagan at Isin and Ur. In the Anzû(m) myth, Dagan was favorably coupled with Anu(m). At Ugarit Dagan was closely associated with, if not equated to, the supreme god El/I(u). Although he is mentioned in the mythic compositions of Ugarit as the father of the storm god Ba'lu/ Had(d)ad, Dagan plays only a very minor role. His popularity is indicated by his importance in offering and god lists, one of which places him third, after the two chief gods and before the active and powerful god Ba'lu/ Had(d)ad. Dagan is attested in Ugaritic theophoric names. In Ugaritic texts the god is often referred to as "Dagan of Tuttul." It might also be the case that one of the two major temples of the city of Ugarit was dedicated to him, and he might there have been identified with the chief god I(u) / El.

Festivals for Dagãn took place at Ter-ga and Tuttul, both of which were cult centers of the god. He was certainly worshipped at Ebla and also at Mari.

At Mari, in Old Babylonian times, he appears as fourth deity on a god list; that is, he was very important. He was venerated also at Emar. There a "Sacred Marriage" ritual between Dagan and the goddess Nin-kur was celebrated.

At the same city, a festival was held in honor of "Dagan-Lord-of-the-Cattle," at which the herds of cattle and prob. ably sheep were blessed.

According to the Hebrew Bible, Dagan was the national god of the Philistines. I Samuel:5-6 tells of the capture of the Ark of the Covenant by the Philistines. It was customary in the Ancient Near East for the conquerors to carry off the deity statues of the conquered to mark the surrender not only of the people, but also of their deities.

So the Philistines took the Ark, the symbol of the god of the Israelites, into the temple of Dagan at Ashdod. Since the Israelites had no statues of their deity, the much revered Ark was an obvious substitute. In this way, the Philistines marked the submission of the Israelite god to Dagan. However, on the next day, the people of Ashdod found the statue of Dagan lying face down in front of the Ark. The following day the same thing happened except that the head and hands of Dagan's statue lay broken on the temple threshold. This biblical account seems to be an etiology for a practice of the priests of the temple of Dagan at Ashdod, for it states that for this reason it is the custom of the priests of Dagan not to tread on the threshold as they enter the temple of Dagan. The best-known of the biblical stories that mention Dagan is in Judges 16, the tale of Samson and Delilah. After Delilah arranged for the Philistines of Gaza to capture Samson, they blinded him, shackled him, and made him a slave at a mill. During a festival to Dagan, the Philistines took Samson to be exhibited in Dagan's temple, where thou sands of Philistines had gathered for the celebrations. After praying to the Israelite god, the now long haired Samson got back his old strength. By pushing against two central pillars, he brought the temple crashing down on himself and on more Philistines than he had killed in his whole lifetime of killing Philistines.

— From a Handbook to Ancient Near Eastern Gods & Goddesses by Frayne & Stuckey page 67-69