Witch of Endor Kills the Fat Calf

 As you are reading the Bible do you ever run across verses where you just scratch your head and ask yourself, “what did this look like?”

In the story of Saul and the witch of Endor, Saul asks that she bring up Samuel from the dead.  At the end of the story she asks Saul and the two men with him if they want something to eat because Saul was weak and just got news he would die tomorrow.  They agree to eat something and then we get this verse.  She didn’t go to the fridge and pull out sandwich meat.  Nope!  She went and killed a calf, skinned it, bled it, cut off some meat and then while the meat was roasting she made some bread from scratch.  How long do you suppose that took?  Did the men just sit there for hours in the night while they watched this woman kill, butcher and bake for them?  The verse take 3 seconds to read but hours to accomplish.  When Jesus comes it will be really interesting to go back and watch the video tape of these amazing stories from history.  Let me know if you have any insight on this.

1 Samuel 28:24 The woman had a fattened calf at the house, which she butchered at once. She took some flour, kneaded it and baked bread without yeast.