2009-10-06T16:41:07-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/saul/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2026:16-18&version=NIV 2009-10-06T16:41:07-05:00 Paul is related to King Agrippa his experience on the road to Damascus in this passage. He quotes Jesus in these verses who told him to go to the Gentiles and open their eyes to the light of God. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2013:14&version=NIV 2009-09-18T13:49:27-05:00 King Saul did not obey God as he should have. As a result, God found a new leader to take his place--somebody with a heart patterned after God's own. That ruler was the famous king David. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2024&version=NIV 2009-08-26T16:31:24-05:00 Despite the fact that Saul was trying to have him killed, David spared Saul's life when Saul was at his mercy. This is the story of Saul seeking refuge in a cave where David and his men were already hiding. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2020:1-42&version=NIV 2009-08-06T15:54:26-05:00 David's closest friend was Jonathan, the son of his frequent enemy Saul. Jonathan often supported David even when his father was most determined to have David killed. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts.9.1-19&version=NIV 2009-07-20T13:27:46-05:00 It is one of the wonderful ironies of the New Testament that the early church's greatest evangelist started out as its greatest enemy. This is the story of Saul--later renamed Paul--and the encounter with Jesus that led him to stop persecuting the church... and join it. http://bibleforchildren.org/PDFs/russian/David%20the%20King%20Part%201%20Russian.pdf 2009-04-20T14:56:13-05:00 Russian: David has 400 men as he runs from King Saul. Saul comes into a cave where David and his men are hiding, but David will not kill the Lord's anointed. Saul asks a witch to call up Samuel who had died. Saul and Jonathan are killed in a battle with the Philistines and David becomes king. http://bibleforchildren.org/PDFs/russian/The%20Handsome%20Foolish%20King%20Russian.pdf 2009-03-18T11:07:38-05:00 Russian: Samuel was old & his sons wicked. The people wanted a king. God gave them Saul the son of Kish. Saul rescued Israel from the Ammonites, but he did not fully obey God. He kept King Agag of Amalek alive & offered a sacrifice to God which only the priest could do. God rejected him as king. http://bibleforchildren.org/PDFs/hebrew/David%20the%20King%20Part%201%20Hebrew.pdf 2009-02-27T15:51:14-05:00 Hebrew: David has 400 men as he runs from King Saul. Saul comes into a cave where David and his men are hiding, but David will not kill the Lord's anointed. Saul asks a witch to call up Samuel who had died. Saul and Jonathan are killed in a battle with the Philistines and David becomes king. http://bibleforchildren.org/PDFs/hebrew/The%20Handsome%20Foolish%20King%20Hebrew.pdf 2009-02-27T15:02:33-05:00 Hebrew: Samuel was old & his sons wicked. The people wanted a king. God gave them Saul the son of Kish. Saul rescued Israel from the Ammonites, but he did not fully obey God. He kept King Agag of Amalek alive & offered a sacrifice to God which only the priest could do. God rejected him as king. http://bibleforchildren.org/PDFs/chinese_traditional/David%20the%20King%20Part%201%20ChineseT.pdf 2009-02-27T14:21:29-05:00 ChineseT: David has 400 men as he runs from King Saul. Saul comes into a cave where David and his men are hiding, but David will not kill the Lord's anointed. Saul asks a witch to call up Samuel who had died. Saul and Jonathan are killed in a battle with the Philistines and David becomes king.