{"id":5999,"date":"2015-06-24T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5999"},"modified":"2015-06-24T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:43:41","slug":"king-achish-and-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5999\/king-achish-and-david\/","title":{"rendered":"King Achish and David"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I\u00a0hope this note finds you well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have a question about David living with the Philistines.\u00a0 Why would King Achish allow him safe harbor, so to speak. We\u2019re they not enemies?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Patty<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Patty.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Thanks for the question.\u00a0 It is a good one.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> King Achish gave David safe haven because he knew that David was considered an outlaw in Israel, as were those hundreds of desperate men who had joined David in fleering from the authorities (1Sam. 22:2).\u00a0 David and his men could not go back into the territory of Israel where King Saul could get them, so Achish felt confident that they would permanently be a non-Israelites.\u00a0 Besides this, David acted wisely while in Philistia and won King Achish&#8217;s trust (1Sam. 29:9).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hope that helps.\u00a0 May God bless you until we meet again, which I hope won&#8217;t be long!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi John, I\u00a0hope this note finds you well. I have a question about David living with the Philistines.\u00a0 Why would King Achish allow him safe harbor, so to speak. We\u2019re they not enemies? Thanks, Patty =========== Hi Patty. Thanks for the question.\u00a0 It is a good one. King Achish gave David safe haven because he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}