Old Testament
1 Samuel
First Samuel follows Israel from the last judges to its first king. Samuel learns to hear God, Saul rises and falls, and David is chosen while still a shepherd. The book tests what leadership is for and repeats a hard truth: God sees the heart, not the appearance that impresses everyone else.
1 Samuel 7
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- 1 Samuel 7:12
Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “The LORD helped us until now.”
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1 Samuel 13
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- 1 Samuel 13:19-22
Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”; but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own ploughshare, mattock, axe, and sickle. The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, ploughshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads. So it came to pass in the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
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1 Samuel 14
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- 1 Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.
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1 Samuel 16
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- 1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
Discussed in: - 1 Samuel 16:11
Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”
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1 Samuel 17
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- 1 Samuel 17:7
The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him.
Discussed in: - 1 Samuel 17:34-36
David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after him, struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, struck him, and killed him. Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”
Discussed in: - 1 Samuel 17:38-39
Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of bronze on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail. David strapped his sword on his clothing and he tried to move, for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, “I can’t go with these, for I have not tested them.” Then David took them off.
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1 Samuel 23
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- 1 Samuel 23:14
David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.
Discussed in: - 1 Samuel 23:16
Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.
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