The families of the sons of Israel are numbered by name. This astonishing record of people, 601,730, is a testament to God of how He knows and holds people in his heart, by name. "I have called you by name, you are mine" and also it is a marvel that such a record should be taken and kept: I know of no other from such a period of history, that has preserved records so precisely taken from such a large body of people. Surely God is awesome.

David's song, having been delivered from the danger he was in with Achish King of Gath with whom he had sought refuge from King Saul but who had begun to suspect that David was not with him but against him and is about to act against David is witness to God's reality, that God is the only living, powerful and listening God and only He can deliver us from disaster even that brought on by ourselves an ...