What is it that you are gripping so tightly, that you couldn’t let go, even if you wanted to? Is it the gospel? If someone came along and tried to convince you that the Bible was full of errors, or that Christianity was intolerant – has the gospel got such a hold of you that you couldn’t give it up, […]

Eleazar struck down so many Philistines that after a while, he couldn’t have let go of his sword, even if he wanted to. Would you rather die with your hand clinging to your sword? Or with your sword rusty because it’s used so rarely? Would you rather they had to put the sword in the coffin with you because they […]

Eleazar is a pretty obscure Bible character. And yet God noticed and highlighted what he did. Some commentators think that what verses 9 and 10 are describing are the aftermath of David killing Goliath. The picture would be that the rest of the troops in his contingent gave up pursuing the Philistines. They left him pursuing them alone. But he […]