Shammah: David’s mighty warrior who stood his ground
Shammah is one of my favorite heroes from the Old Testament. He was a member of a group of men who followed David to the cave of Adullam. At this point, David was a young adult fleeing for his life from an unstable King Saul. David had years earlier killed his giants, lions, bears and under Saul, many Philistines. And even though the prophet Samuel had declared David to be the next king, he was running for his life from the ‘old guard’ in Israel. The warriors who had gathered with David were part of his 3-D club. They were in distress, in debt and discontented: David therefore departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. So when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. 2 And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was[a]discontented gathered to him. So he became captain over them. And there were about four hundred men with him. (1 Samuel 22:1-2 NKJV) There were originally …