Author: lowen

There are many hidden gems and treasures in scripture, if we’ll just look for them. This week on the podcast, we explore Judges 10, which tells of the vexation of Israel by Ammon. This is the introduction; Judges 11 tells the story of the Judge Jephtah, who ed Israel to victory over Ammon.

While the beginnings for Moab and Ben-Ammi were not God-glorifying, the Lord still gave them land; in Deuteronomy Chapeter 2 we find where Moses relays God’s prohibitions against ‘meddling’ with the territory of the children of Esau, Moab, and Ammon, and that God has given them that land. So what was David doing battling Ammon?

Very few stories in the word of God are more disgusting than the story of the births of Moab and Ben-Ammi. The evil influence of Sodom and Gomorrah is writ large in this story, as Lot’s two surviving daughters conceive children with their own father, and give them names that make it sound like they…

Joab is often seen in the story of David as being hardnosed and not especially spiritual. But during the battle with Ammon in 2 Samuel 10, we find a very spiritual statement from this man, which boils down to the thought ‘Let’s see what the Lord will do.’ Job is yielded to the Lord’s will…

As we go to the next stage in David’s life, we find an instance where David was sincerely being kind to someone, but that someone then reacted in a spiteful, hateful, manner. This happens all too frequently in the Christian’s life as we try to live among worldly people while trying to be Christian in…

This week on the podcast, we explore the overall meaning of the situation with Mephibosheth as a type of the redeemed sinner.