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Samuel 19: 9-10

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As I read, I Samuel 19:9-10, I learned something interesting about Saul and God. In this text of the Bible, it is talking about an evil spirit from the Lord came over Saul. I thought to myself, the Lord would not do this. Then I realized, it says so in His Word, it must be true. My next question, why would He do this? First, I searched Biblegateway.com for some commentary information, it was just so, so. Instead, I pulled out my new MacArthur Bible Commentary to see what this all means. There in black and white was my answer. Earlier in chapter 15, Saul disobeyed God and tried to blame the people of Israel for his disobedience rather than being remorseful and beg forgiveness. In that moment, God removed the Spirit of the Lord and replaced it with an evil spirit that terrorized Saul (I Sam 16:15). That evil spirit showed up several times, it even mentions that the servants were aware of the presence of this evil spirit and they would call David to play the harp.
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