by David Keesling | Oct 20, 2025 | Daily Devotional
John 8:3-5 “And the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the midst, they said to him, ‘Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women; now what do...
by David Keesling | Oct 19, 2025 | Daily Devotional
1 Samuel 1:22 “But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, ‘I will not go up until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord and stay there forever.’” Observation: Hannah was one of two wives of Elkhanah. The Lord had...
by David Keesling | Oct 18, 2025 | Daily Devotional
2 Samuel 10:6 “Now when the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David….” Observation: Years earlier, when David had been a refugee from Saul, the Ammonite king had been kind to him. Now, the king had died and was succeeded on the throne by his son Hanun....
by David Keesling | Oct 17, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Judges 16:20 “And she said, ‘The Philistines are upon you, Samson!’ And he awoke from his sleep and said, ‘I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.’ But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.” Observation: As a Nazirite, Samson had vowed to...
by David Keesling | Oct 16, 2025 | Daily Devotional
2 Samuel 19:1-4 “It was told Joab, ‘Behold the king is weeping for Absalom…The king is grieved for his son…and the king covered his face and cried out with a loud voice, ‘O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!” Observation: A full seven chapters of 2 Samuel have...
by David Keesling | Oct 15, 2025 | Daily Devotional
2 Samuel 17:3 “Then all the people shall be at peace.” Observation: David’s traitorous son Absalom is seeking counsel from one of Absalom’s most trusted advisors, Ahithophel. Absalom had proclaimed himself king, causing his father David to flee Jerusalem with a cohort...
