1 Samuel 17:(1a, 4-11, 19-23), 32-49
Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
Mark 4:26-34
He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.
2 Corinthians 5:6-10, (11-13), 14-17
So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord- for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Ezekiel 17:22-24
Thus says the Lord God: I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of a cedar; I will set it out. I will break off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs; I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
1 Samuel 15:34 – 16:13
Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul. Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord was sorry that he had made Saul king over Israel.
Mark 3:20-35
When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.”
