SAMUEL DAVID

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SAMUEL - DAVID

• The Tribes Become A Nation
• ca 1100 971 BC
• I Samuel II Samuel 211

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From Judges to Kings

• The Period of Time from Shortly after the Time of
  Samson to the Reign of Solomon is Bridged by the
  Lives of Three Men
• Samuel
• Saul
• David

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SAMUEL

• Last judge and first prophet
• Elkanah, Peninah, and Hannah at Shiloh
• Samuel (Heard of God)
• Hannahs Poem Basis of Magnificat
• Eli and sons and Samuel
• Recognition as a Prophet
• Loss of the Ark Death of Eli

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Samuel takes over

• Gathers army at Mizpah
• Philistines also arrive
• Burnt offering and prayer
• Mighty thunderstorm scatters Philistines
• Philistine aggression halts
• Samuel rules from 4 centers Bethel, Gilgal,
  Mizpah and Ramah

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People Demand a King

• Samuel was old
• his sons unworthy leaders
• People want a king like other nations
• A provision also in Deut. 1714-20
• God revealed to Samuel who to look for
• Saul came to Ramah looking for mules
• Samuel anointed Saul

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SAUL TAKES OVER

• First very humble
• Convinced by prophesied signs
• Hid himself at Mizpah inauguration
• Returned to farming at Gibeah
• Immediately tested by Ammonites
• Met initial defeat by Philistines
• Usurped Samuels role and was rejected
• by God

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To obey is better than sacrifice

• Samuel instructs Saul to destroy the Amalekites
• Saul returns with best of spoil and Agag
• Samuel goes to Bethlehem and anoints a boy to be
  the next king

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David the Harpist

• Saul troubled by an evil spirit
• A young skilled musician played for him
• The youth became his armor-bearer
• David returned to Bethlehem for a time

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David the Giant Killer

• Standoff between armies
• Challenge by a nine-foot warrior
• David arrives and slays the giant
• David returns again to Saul at Gibeah
• Becomes good friend of Jonathan
• Admired by the people

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Davids Exile

• Sauls servants sent to kill become friends
• Saul himself immobilized in Spirit at Naioth
• David escapes to wilderness
• Moves his family to Moab
• Hides in Adullam and En-Gedi
• Eventually relocates to Ziklag

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David the King

• Village of Ziklag raided in his absence
• His men blame him and pick up stones
• David encouraged himself I Sam. 306
• Recovers all
• Saul is removed
• Judah anoints David king at Hebron
• Ishbosheth rules all other tribes
• Civil war between David and Ishbosheth

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David Consolidates Israel

• Abner seeks a treaty
• Ishbosheth and Abner are killed
• David is invited to rule all the tribes
• They reminded him of the prophecy
• given at his anointing by Samuel
• (2 Sam. 52)

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Three Major Accomplishmentsbrought Consolidation
and Strength

• Selection of a neutral capital
• Introduction of Iron Technology
• Establishment of Religious Center

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Enlargement of Kingdom

• Moab
• Zobah
• Damascus
• Edom
• Ammon
• Territory Euphrates to Negev
• Mediterranean to Great Desert

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Davids Decline

• Sin with Uriahs wife
• Death of child
• Nathans parable
• Davids repentance
• Davids consequences
• Tamars rape and Ammons murder
• Absaloms rebellion and death
• Adonijahs attempted coup

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Davids Altar

• Davids selfish and prideful census
• Great plague and 70,000 deaths
• Threshing floor of Araunah
• Davids altar and sacrifice ca 1000 BC
• Location of Abrahams sacrifice 2000 BC
• The place Gods son was sacrificed 33 AD

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