With regard to General Patton and the prayer for good weather,
there is a fine article by Channing Walker On the Ethics of Prayer in
the 31st January, 2000 Christian Science Sentinel. It
specifically mentions the prayer.
Oh dear! I have lost all that I wrote this morning.
More fighting in Chapter 13. Philistines: 30,000
chariots, 6,000 horsemen, people as the sand on the sea shore! One gets
the idea that there may have been some exaggeration. There were refugees
in those days too – some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and
Gilead.
Saul got himself into a pickle when Samuel didn’t come when things
were not going well for their side – he offered a burnt offering, a “no-no” it
seems. Samuel prophesied that there was to be a better man appointed to
the kingship. He probably had a character of the calibre of David in
thought.
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