Bible History - Old Testament

- 28- First, as to the facts of the case. The "elders of Israel" having formally applied to Samuel: "Make us now a king to judge ...

- 29- land, with the bond of national unity almost dissolved, and in the total failure of that living realization of the constan ...

- 30- CHAPTER 5 : The Calling of Saul - Occasion of his Interview with Samuel -Samuel Communes with Saul - Saul is Anointed King ...

- 31- if need were, defenders of their national rights and of their national religion. Such, no doubt, was also the father of Ab ...

- 32- the stateliest and finest-looking man in all Israel, the same voice which had led him to expect, indicated that this was t ...

- 33- conferred on him, but of the thoughts which had been called up in Saul that day: of Israel's need, of Israel's sin, of Isr ...

- 34- Then "the Spirit of Jehovah" would "seize upon him," and he would "be turned into another man." The obvious import of this ...

- 35- are, however, not to understand the abiding and sanctifying Presence of the Holy Ghost dwelling in the heart as His temple ...

- 36- to connect with the visit to Samuel, he forbore to gratify a curiosity, probably not unmixed with worldly ambition and cal ...

- 37- CHAPTER 6 : Saul Chosen King at Mizpeh - His Comparative Privacy - Incursion of Nahash - Relief of Jabesh-gilead - Popular ...

- 38- presented to the people what the leadership of the Lord had been in the past, and what their choice of another leadership ...

- 39- marks of homage, but openly derided the new king as wanting in tribal influence and military means for his office. When we ...

- 40- to Gibeah. It was evening when Saul returned home "behind the oxen," with which he had been working,^111 to find Gibeah st ...

- 41- the enemy were left together. The revulsion of popular feeling toward Saul was complete. They would even have killed those ...

- 42- CHAPTER 7 : Saul Marches against the Philistines - Position of the two Camps - Jonathan's Feat of Arms - Saul Retreats to ...

- 43- Michmash and Mount Bethel to the north-east, north, and north-west, threatening their communications through the Wady-es-S ...

- 44- unto thee, do for thyself as thine hand shall find, for Elohim is with thee. And when thou goest down before me to Gilgal, ...

- 45- line, as unfit to be "captains" over "Jehovah's people" - such was the sentence which Samuel had to announce on that day. ...

- 46- 12:13); David the king after God's own heart, not because of his greater piety or goodness, but because, despite his faili ...

- 47- CHAPTER 8 : Camps of Israel and of the Philistines - Jonathan and his Armor-bearer - Panic among the Philistines, and Flig ...