Tag: 1 Samuel

1 Samuel 14I’m not quite sure what to think here. Was Saul aware that if the people ate of the spoil they were likely to do it in haste and break the commandments by eating it with the blood? Is it right that Jonathan should be charged with the sin of the people because he…

1 Samuel 12 – 13The people acknowledge that Samuel has done right for them all his life. He promises that even with their king they will do well only if they follow the Lord with all their hearts. As a sign he announces that he will ask the Lord to send thunder and rain that…

1 Samuel 10 – 11It sounds like Saul, although a good man, was not known as a spiritually attuned person. That may well be one of the reasons that once he got on the wrong path he was more likely to try to bully his way through than back out in humble repentance. It sounds…

1 Samuel 9The story of Saul always amazes me. He was a good man before he was chosen king but he grew worse over time by compounding one error with another, never reversing course when he made a mistake. That was the difference between him and David.

1 Samuel 7 – 8Samuel had a circuit of four locations that he would go to annually to judge Israel. What a life he must have had. When the people finally abanadoned their other gods then the Lord began to fight their battles for them. I was tempted to think of Samuel’s sons similar to…

1 Samuel 6The spiritual advisers of the Philistines said that they should send back golden images of their emrods and mice as a trespass offering and then said that they should let two cows pull a cart with the ark and the offering and if the cows pulled the card to the land of Israel…

1 Samuel 5If there was any doubt about whether the Lord had power to take care of that which is sacred or righteous unto Him this should clear it up. He chose not to help Israel and to allow the ark of the covenant to be taken by the Philistines but then Hemade the Philistine…

1 Samuel 4This use of the ark of the covenant was not a result of following the Lord and having His power with them but was instead a result of a mistaken belief that they could command God by taking the Ark of His Covenant to the battle. For some it may even have been…

1 Samuel 3It is interesting how the Lord can and will, when necessary, use someone who has lost his place (or will be) through unrighteousness. In Eli’s case his unrighteousness was his unwillingness to curb his sons in their wicked behavior or remove them from their places. Eli had already been warned that his house…

1 Samuel 2Hannah asked the Lord for one child promising that if He gave her a male child she would give him to serve before the Lord all his life. I had forgotten that after she kept her promise Eli blessed Elkanah and Hannah that they would have other children in payment for the one…