1 Samuel 23:29

David hides from Saul in Engedi.

David's Camp at Engedi by William Brassey Hole.
undated colour lithograph.

1 Samuel 21:9

David is reunited with the sword which had slain Goliath.

"There is none like it; give it to me."

Arent de Gelder (1645–1727)
Ahimelech Giving the Sword of Goliath to David
Oil on canvas, 91.8 cm x 132.4 cm

1 Samuel 21:6

The bread of God sustains David.

So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.

Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante
The Priest Ahimelech Gives the Bread and the Sword to David, 1667-8.

1 Samuel 17:51

David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistines sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him; and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.

So don't you be afraid
Of giants in your way
With God, you know that anything's possible
So step into the fight
He's right there by your side
The stones inside your hand might be small
But watch the giants fall

Illustration 'David and Goliath' by Robert Leinweber (1845–1921).

Lyrics are from 'Giants Fall' by Francesca Battistelli.

1 Samuel 16:10-11

Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel,
but Samuel said to him, "The Lord has not chosen these."
So he asked Jesse, "Are these all the sons you have?"
"There is still the youngest," Jesse answered. "He is tending the sheep."

1 Samuel 13:13-14

And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

But now your kingdom shall not continue.

The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you."

1 Samuel 8:4-6

So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. "Look," they said, "you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations." But when they said, "Give us a king to judge us," their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord.

1 Samuel 4:6-7

And when they realised that the ark of the Lord had entered the camp, the Philistines were afraid. "The gods have entered their camp!" they said. "Woe to us, for nothing like this has happened before."

Illustration by James Tissot, 'The Ark Sent Away'.

1 Samuel 3:17-18

"What was the message He gave you?" Eli asked.
"Do not hide it from me.
May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you."
So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him.

"He is the Lord," replied Eli.
"Let Him do what is good in His eyes."

1 Samuel 3:7

Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord:
The word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.

1 Samuel 2:2

There is no one holy like the Lord;
there is no one besides you;
there is no Rock like our God.

For Israel.

Isaiah 40:1

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

Psalm 83:1-8

For Israel.

O God, do not remain silent;
do not turn a deaf ear,
do not stand aloof, O God.
See how your enemies growl,
how your foes rear their heads.
With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish.

"Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
so that Israel's name is remembered no more."

With one mind they plot together;
they form an alliance against you --
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
of Moab and the Hagrites,
Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
Even Assyria has joined them
to reinforce Lot's descendants.

For Israel.

Isaiah 41:10

So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

For Israel.

Psalm 17:6-9

I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me; hear my words.
Wondrously show your steadfast love,
O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand.

Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow of your wings,
from the wicked who do me violence,
my deadly enemies who surround me.

Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel (2017)
Two original oil paintings by Anastasiia Valiulina

1 Samuel 2:7-8

The Lord sends poverty and wealth;
he humbles and he exalts.
He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
he seats them with princes
and has them inherit a throne of honor.

Photographer: Niki Feijen

1 Samuel 1:10

In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly.

Judges 19:30

Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt.

The Levite of Ephraim, 1837
Alexandre-François Caminade (1789–1862)
(Le Lévite d’Ephraïm méditant de venger sa femme morte victime de la brutalité des Benjamites), oil on canvas, 60 x 81 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France.

Judges 18:27

Then they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and went on to Laish, against a people at peace and secure. They attacked them with the sword and burned down their city.

Micah confronts the Danites (Judges 18, 22 - 26). Wood engraving, published in 1886. My own colourisation.

Judges 16:12-13

"All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied."

Solomon Joseph Solomon - Samson, c. 1887.
Oil on canvas.

Judges 11:35

Jephthah's Foolish Vow.

Anton Robert Leinweber - Jephthah's daughter comes out to meet her father, from Hulbert's Story of the Bible published by The John Winston Company, 1932

Judges 9:53-54

"Draw your sword and kill me! Don't let it be said that a woman killed Abimelech!" So the young man ran him through with his sword, and he died.

The Death of Abimelek
Kevissimo, 2012
https://twitter.com/kevissimo
https://www.kevissimo.com/pr-judges/the-death-of-abimelech

I don't often post work by living artists, out of respect for their copyright and terms of use. But @kevissimo's work shows that Biblical art is live and well, and powerful as ever.

Judges 4:22

Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. "Come," she said, "I will show you the man you're looking for." So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple — dead.

Gustav Doré - Jael and Sisera, 1866, my own colourisation.

Joshua 24:23

"Now then," said Joshua, "throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel."

Joshua 23:14

Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed.
Every promise has been fulfilled;
not one has failed.