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The Story of the Hunt for David—
David Joins Israel's Enemies

January 8, 2023Bible storiesbetrayal, caves, david, deception, destruction, escape, failure, foolishness, forgiveness, god, insanity, israelites, massacres, morality, philistines, pointlessness, prophecy, reputation, revenge, saul, secrets, sleep, theft, warR. A. Absalom

David went to the Philistine city of Gath to escape from Saul. But the people there thought they recognized him as a notorious Philistine slaughterer. So David pretended he was insane,¹ and then he ran away and hid in a cave.

Then he went into a city and fought the Philistines who were attacking it. But God told him that Saul was coming, and that the people of the city would hand him over to Saul to keep him from destroying their city. So David left the city, and what God predicted didn’t happen.

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The Story of Sodom and Gomorrah—
Lot's Family's Mostly Unsuccessful Attempt to Avoid Being Raped and Killed

July 15, 2020Bible storiesangels, anomalous weather, blindness, caves, death, destruction, disasters, escape, evil, failure, family, fire, god, homosexuality, incest, lot, massacres, misunderstanding, morality, overreaction, punishment, rape, rescue, sodom and gomorrah, transformation, violence, wineR. A. Absalom

Abraham’s nephew Lot was a righteous man. He lived in the city of Sodom, where nearly everyone was so wicked that God decided to kill them all.² So God sent two angels (who looked like men) to Sodom. Lot met them and convinced them to spend the night at his house.

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