Essay on Saul's Tragedy

Samuel is getting too old, and he wants to appoint one of his sons to look over Israel. However, his sons are selfish and not appropriate to become kings, so the people urges Samuel to appoint someone else as king. God is displeased, but he tells Samuel to choose Saul as the new king. Saul becomes king, but eventually he defies God’s order. God chooses a new king, David. David becomes a hero when he defeats Goliath when the Philistines attack Israel.

In the beginning of saul 's life,he had many problems.Some of them he could fix and others he couldn’t.Saul tried to make best

God granted Israel’s request for a king, but His commandments and requirements remained the same. Saul was ultimately rejected because he was disobedient to God’s word. He showed his disobedience in 1 Samuel 13:8-12 by offering up a sacrifice to God himself without waiting for Samuel. In 1 Samuel 14, Saul made a vow without thinking of the implications. His men were too tired to fight, they were so hungry that they ate meat that contained blood, which was against the Law. In addition, he also almost killed his son Jonathan. In 1 Samuel 15, God told Saul to destroy all Amalek, sparing nothing. However, Saul did not obey God’s command as he and his men stole money, sheep and the best cattle and did not kill King Agag. When

He has fought, wrestled long and hard to get to this place as his last few days of his life are now coming to an end. Tired of wrestling with in his self as sleepless nights take their toll on him, on the run he has to end of this madness. General’s today, one can look at various battles and from a battle plan. They know what it takes to end them, who to send where men, targets to bomb, etc. So it was with Saul he finally came to the point that he has to talk to God. He knows the battle plan for this pending battle this quickly approaching. The armies were all ready there waiting to go and destroy Saul and his armies. When all else falls go back to square one and Saul square on like so many today is to go here from God.

He shows he is weak and not ready to lead. (1 Samuel 9:21). Saul even hides when he is supposed to show himself to the Israelites as the chosen King (1 Samuel 11: 22). Although Saul knows that he cannot lead, he has no choice, he has to follow the Lord’s order. At last, God realizes that Saul was indeed not a leader-type person and chooses another person. God must have known that people are not forced to be leaders, but they themselves should be aware of the ability to be leaders.

Hassan and Sohrab. Saul speaks to David and says, “You are not able to go against this Philistine

The Philistine Army prepared for the upcoming war against the Israelites. On opposite sides of a steep valley, both armies camped facing each other. Goliath, a formidable giant who plumbed over nine feet tall and kept on a full suit of armor, emerged out for 40 days, consecutively. Everyone was terrified of him, but only one was not, David, one of Jesse’s sons. In the story of David and Goliath, the text states, “So David volunteered to fight Goliath” (paragraph 4).

the sword to him he was being brave because he knew he could of died and he stlll fault.

Both Saul and David were men of war. Each led armies against the enemies of Israel. They were both politically perceptive and operated prophetically. The difference between these two

The attitudes that was brought into war is different between the Hebrews and Greeks, where Hebrews enter with uncertainty about their success and turnouts, while Greeks proceed with passion and excitement for honor. After Lord’s forsaken, Saul desperately “inquired of the Lord, but the Lord did not answer him” (I Samuel 28:6) when he saw Philistine’s force. This led him to resort to consulting Samuel’s ghost, which is a practice of necromancy, something

Saul had previously wiped out all of the mediums and wizards from the land because they were evil in the eyes of Yahweh. Because of his realized hypocrisy, he disguised himself and visited the medium his servants had sought out in Endor. He told the medium to call upon Samuel and so she immediately suspected that he is Saul. She knew that her work was extremely illegal by Saul's court, so she became afraid until he reassured her that he was permitting the act in that occasion. She then called upon Samuel. Samuel apparently took over the medium's body or appears in some other way to Saul. So Saul did what he came there for and asked for advise on his latest predicament. The irritated and disturbed Samuel explained that Yahweh is taking away his kingdom and giving it to David because of his disobedience of not carrying out the Lord's punishment against the Amalekites (according to Mc Carter the dead had some way of knowing God's plans and had access to them). So, Saul fell to the ground in anguish from the news and lack of energy caused by fasting. The medium quickly attended to him and forced him to eat. Saul and his servants then left. And there the chapter ends.

Now, Saul didn’t come to the throne as the results of a hard-fought political campaign. In fact, he wasn’t even running for the office. I don’t suppose that he had ever thought of becoming a king. The day Saul left home looking for his father’s live-stock he had no idea that something was going to happen that would change his whole life.

Saul, which means, ‘asked for’ or ‘prayed for’, was the son of Kish, a Benjamite. Saul was the most handsome man in Israel—head and shoulders taller than anyone else. God told Samuel he had looked down on his people in mercy and he heard their cry for their own king. Therefore, Samuel had to anoint Saul as leader of Israel. This new king

On a brief side note this is an incredible testimony to the conversion and character of Saul. He would do everything one hundred percent and never give up until the Lord moved him and we see that every time he goes through a difficult situation (which was quite often) in his ministry.

So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance. He did not seek guidance from the Lord. Therefore the Lord put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse (1 Chron. 10:13-14).