It must have been difficult for Samuel to know that part of the reason the people rejected the Lord and demanded a king was because if the behavior of his sons. It must also have been difficult to watch as the man who was chosen to be king was worse in some ways than his sons had been.
While he lived long enough to anoint David as the next king he didn’t live long enough to see David take the throne not did he see the many years that David would lead righteously.
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