1st Sirmuel 11
11: Saol sent his DSS men to Dave’s house to arrest him, or better still, kill him in the morning. But Michelle, Dave’s wife told him, ‘Sweetheart, if you do not leave the country tonight, tomorrow, you will be assassinated.’
12: So Dave sneaked out through one of the rear doors of their mansion and he escaped. And had an Uber drive him to the airport.
13: And Michelle took a mannequin and put it on their bed and laid a coat made of fur and covered it with the duvet.
14-15: And when Saol sent the DSS to take Dave, she said, ‘He has malaria.’ But Saol sent the men again. This time he asked them to bring him to Abuja dead or alive.
16-17: But when the men of the DSS came back to Dave’s house, it was a mannequin they found on the bed. And Saol said to Michelle, ‘Why did you deceive me?’ Michelle replied, ‘He’s the love of my life. It’s over my dead body that I would let you kill him.’
18: So Dave fled and went into exile and sought political asylum at Sirmuel’s Ramah and told him everything Saol had done. And Sirmuel said Saol had mental issues and he and Sirmuel travelled in a private jet to Naioth.
19-20: And they told Saol that Dave had escaped to Naioth, he sent his men to take him. And smuggle him back into the country like they did to a certain Dikko. But when they saw the company of Interpol around him, they mellowed.
1st Sirmuel 20
27-29: Saol noticed that Dave was absent from the get together he hosted at the State House so he asked his son, Jona why Dave didn’t come to the buffet. Jona replied that Dave informed him that he needed to visit his family in the village and also attend Shiloh since it was that time of the year.
30: ‘You mutherfucking bastard!’, Saol shouted. ‘Your father!’ Then he remembered that he was his father, so he said something else. ‘Why are you teaming up with that idiot over your father’s government? Is this how I raised you? So all the money I spent to send you to Harvard and all the great schools was all a waste?’
31: ‘For as long as that traitor is alive, you have no chance of winning our party’s primaries.’
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This is the 3rd in the 21st Century Bible Reading. You can read the first and second readings.
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