Now that Samuel’s dead, the Philistines are going to come square off against Saul and his army. Achish, the king where David’s staying, makes David his personal bodyguard for life.
Without Samuel to talk to God for him, Saul is really nervous about this fight. Even though he had expelled all the media from the land, he sets his men to work finding one for him. That’s medium like someone who talks to the dead that he’s looking for, not like music and movies.
They find a medium on the forest moon of Endor, I mean in the town of Endor, and she summons Samuel for Saul to question. Samuel says that Saul is an idiot for even asking, and his nation will be taken from him and given to David.
Once Achish meets up with the other Philistine leaders, they all kind of flip out about David and his men being there. They insist that Achish send them back home because they might turn on them in the battle. It’s a good thing they did too because David returned home just in time to find the whole place plundered and burned to the ground. Some Amalikite raiders had come through and taken all the goods and the women. Fortunately they left an ephod, which David was able to use to consult with the Lord. God told him to pursue the raiders and they got all of their gold and livestock and wives and other valuables back. They also killed all but a couple hundred of the Amalekites.
Meanwhile, back at the war, Israel was losing badly. Saul’s three sons were all killed and on that same day Saul jumped on his own sword when his armor-bearer refused to kill him. He was hoping to escape the abuse of the Philistines when they caught him. Once they found his body they took it back to Beth Shan and hung it on a wall. Some soldiers mounted an expedition to go retrieve it later on, but, more importantly, the Philistines occupied a big chunk of Israel now.
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