The Day Of Israel The Kings Ruled By The Favor And Choice Of God

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.

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.

Saul was chosen by God to be the king, according to the scriptures (1 Sam 9:17). The Lord told Samuel, “Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall restrain my people” (1 Sam 9:17). When Samuel gathers the people together, he reiterates how Israel has rejected God and demanded a king by saying, “But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and

First, foreseeing the day that Israel would have a king, expressed in Deuteronomy are instructions for such a time. At this point it should be noted that the idea of Israel having a king, began in the mind of God. Contrary to what some believe about the idea of kinship and God’s supposed disdain for it, Howard mentions the fact that “God has spoken of kings to Abraham from the beginning (Gen. 17:6, 16; 35:11)”; furthermore, he noted that the problem with anointing a king was intention of the people to be like the nations

In 1020 BC, the Israelites appointed Samuel, who was a prophet and judge, to choose the first king. He chose Saul, who was a handsome and mighty warrior. Although Saul had won many battles against Israel’s enemies, he had displeased God and caused him to appoint David as the new king. King David ruled from 1000 to 970 BC and was widely known his bravery, as well as his friendship with King Saul’s son, Jonathan. Due to David’s rising popularity King Saul ordered him

However, Saul is soon abandoned by God because of his disobediences. Yet, Saul’s disobedience is controversial. Patricia K. Tull, the author of “1 and 2 Samuel” in Theological Bible Commentary, argues, “Saul’s exact offense is unclear, and commentators struggle to reconstruct it, augmenting the impression that he was given a test with no correct choices.” In contrast, Marvin Sweeney, the professor of the Hebrew Bible in Claremont School of Theology, asserts, “Although the narrative can hardly be considered anti-monarchic, it takes care to raise concerns about the character of kingship and its costs to the nation at large and it demands that proper kingship in Israel must be exercised in accordance with the divine will.” In this view, Saul has not been accorded with God’s will. Then, is this God’s intentional choice? If it is true, why he does this? If God did not choose Saul as the king, it would be possible that he is not deserted from God. Bible

Israel was surrounded by many nations, and all of those nations had a king. It is recorded in I Samuel 7-8 that the Israelites had requested a king. This was a rejection of God as their leader. They were warned of the consequences of their decision but they ignored all of Samuel’s warnings. For many years Israel lived under human rule beginning with the rule of Saul. Even though they had a few good kings, the many of them were evil. There were tree king who were especially vile. These three were King Ahab, Manasseh, and Amon.

However, why was Saul chosen, and, ultimately, why was he rejected? The book “The Essence of the Old

In 1 Samuel 28: 1-25 Yahweh guides Saul to his death because he has outright deceived and disobeyed God. This passage sets an example to obey Yahweh; otherwise he will inflict punishment

They were ruled by God and His laws until they chose Saul for a king in First Samuel.

The Lord commanded the prophet, Samuel, to go to the house of Jesse in Bethlehem and anoint one of his sons as Saul’s successor. When he arrived to Jesse’s house, he learned that Jesse had eight sons. Samuel asked Jesse to bring forth his sons so that he could consecrate them to the Lord. Jesse brought the oldest ones proudly, hoping that one of them was the one Samuel was seeking for. However, all of them were not chosen by the Lord, for the Lord did not look at the appearance of them, but gazed on the heart. As Samuel rejected all the sons that Jesse had brought forth, he asked Jesse if he had any additional sons. Jesse then summons up his youngest son, David, who was out tending to the sheep. When David stood before Samuel, the Lord instructed Samuel to anoint David as Israel’s succeeding king.

Saul was tall, good looking and a warrior, however, as Hindson and Yates put it, “The people seemed to focus on Saul’s outward appearance (9:2) rather than his heart (16:7)” (Hindson and Yates 2012, 164). Despite his early successes as king, Saul’s arrogance and pride caused him to start disobeying God. Samuel warned Saul repeatedly about his covenant disobedience. So when he offered priestly

God has placed David in the present of King Saul even through David has been anointed by Samuel as king of Israel; God still allows the people’s King as his own servants raise David above their King through

For Saul to be respected by the prophets and the people, he must have been a sociable and good natured man, otherwise, the fellow countrymen would not have elected him to rule over them. Nevertheless, when David gained the love and respect of the Israelites, Saul became a very suspicious and irritable man. He was consumed by this destructive desire that urged him to kill David, and his ruthlessness was observed when he intended to kill his own son after being asked and refusing to give David's whereabouts. I do not believe that Saul was stingy, to the contrary, he offered David his daughter and a very good sum of his treasure if the young fellow defeated the Philistines. Although he was generous to David, his jealousy devoured him until the point of unceasingly intending to destroy his son in law. Saul personality and the facts reported in the books of Samuel the prophet may shed a light upon Saul's character and his spiritual

Walking in obedience is far greater than sacrifice. God shows us in (I Samuel 15:23) “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.” Wow, did you know rebellion is witchcraft? You see, sin is the beginning of disobedience. We face the sin nature now as the result of Adam and Eve’s action toward God, since the inception of time. However, in this verse, God is commanding Saul to destroy the Amalekites, Out of fear Saul did not follow the instruction of the Lord, therefore, being rebellious and suffered the consequences. At this point, God rejected him from being King. Witchcraft is the work of the enemy to