1 Samuel Overview

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1 Samuel Overview Key Chapters 15 16 Key
Words Prayed or Prayer
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Key Verses 1 Samuel 1313 And Samuel said to
Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept
the commandment of the LORD your God, which He
commanded you. For now the LORD would have
established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14
"But now your kingdom shall not continue. The
LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own
heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be
commander over His people, because you have not
kept what the LORD commanded you."
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1 Samuel 1522 Then Samuel said "Has the LORD
as great delight in burnt offerings and
sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to
heed than the fat of rams.
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Author and Date Samuel, Nathan, or Gad (900
1200 B.C.) 2 Peter 121 for prophecy never came
by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as
they were moved by the Holy Spirit. 2 Timothy
316 All Scripture is given by inspiration of
God
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1 Samuel 1025 Then Samuel explained to the
people the behavior of royalty, and wrote it in a
book and laid it up before the LORD. 1 Samuel
1920 Then Saul sent messengers to take David.
And when they saw the group of prophets
prophesying, and Samuel standing as leader over
them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers
of Saul, and they also prophesied. 1 Chronicles
2929 Now the acts of King David, first and last,
indeed they are written in the book of Samuel the
seer, in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in
the book of Gad the seer,
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Two fold message of this book 1. To obey God
and enjoy the blessing of victory over sin and
evil. 2. To recognize the power and the need
for prayer in all aspects of our life.
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Main Theme The goodness and severity of God.
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Romans 25 But in accordance with your hardness
and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up
for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and
revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6
who "will render to each one according to his
deeds" 7 eternal life to those who by patient
continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor,
and immortality 8 but to those who are
self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey
unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath, 9
tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who
does evil, of the Jew first and also of the
Greek 10 but glory, honor, and peace to
everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first
and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no
partiality with God.
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1 Samuel 92 And he had a choice and handsome son
whose name was Saul. There was not a more
handsome person than he among the children of
Israel. From his shoulders upward he was taller
than any of the people
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1 Samuel 1614 But the Spirit of the LORD
departed from Saul, and a distressing spirit from
the LORD troubled him.
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1 Samuel 166 So it was, when they came, that he
looked at Eliab and said, "Surely the LORD's
anointed is before Him." 7 But the LORD said to
Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the
height of his stature, because I have refused
him. For the Lord does not see as man sees for
man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD
looks at the heart."
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James 21 My brethren, do not hold the faith of
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with
partiality. 2 For if there should come into your
assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel,
and there should also come in a poor man in
filthy clothes, 3 and you pay attention to the
one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, "You
sit here in a good place," and say to the poor
man, "You stand there," or, "Sit here at my
footstool," 4 have you not shown partiality
among yourselves, and become judges with evil
thoughts?
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5 Listen, my beloved brethren Has God not chosen
the poor of this world to be rich in faith and
heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those
who love Him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor
man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you
into the courts? 7 Do they not blaspheme that
noble name by which you are called? 8 If you
really fulfill the royal law according to the
Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as
yourself," you do well 9 but if you show
partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by
the law as transgressors.
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1 Samuel 221 And the LORD visited Hannah, so
that she conceived and bore three sons and two
daughters.
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1 Samuel 212 Now the sons of Eli were corrupt
they did not know the LORD.
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1 Samuel 311 Then the LORD said to Samuel
"Behold, I will do something in Israel at which
both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.
12 "In that day I will perform against Eli all
that I have spoken concerning his house, from
beginning to end. 13 "For I have told him that I
will judge his house forever for the iniquity
which he knows, because his sons made themselves
vile, and he did not restrain them. 14 "And
therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that
the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned
for by sacrifice or offering forever."
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Acts 324 "Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel
and those who follow, as many as have spoken,
have also foretold these days. Acts 1320 "After
that He gave them judges for about four hundred
and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
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1 Samuel 1313 And Samuel said to Saul, "You have
done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment
of the LORD your God, which He commanded you. For
now the LORD would have established your kingdom
over Israel forever. 14 "But now your kingdom
shall not continue. The LORD has sought for
Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD
has commanded him to be commander over His
people, because you have not kept what the LORD
commanded you.
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• King Saul spares King Agag and the flocks in
  1 Sam. 15.
• He is full of envy and tries to kill David 1Sam.
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• The spirit of God is replaced with an evil
  spirit 1Sam. 1614.
• He goes to witch of Endor in 1Sam. 28
• He commits suicide 1Sam. 314.

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Acts 1322 He raised up for them David as king,
to whom also He gave testimony and said, 'I have
found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own
heart, who will do all My will.' 23 "From this
man's seed, according to the promise, God raised
up for Israel a Savior -- Jesus