We pick up First Samuel with the stories of the reign of King Saul.
It starts badly almost right from the beginning. Saul offers sacrifice to God in a way that is contrary to the laws of God. God then turns his back on Saul, but his son Jonathan manages to defeat them.
Saul makes rash oaths and catches his son in them and disobeys God and finally God rejects Saul as king and sends Samuel to Jesse's house to anoint a king from among Jesse's sons.
Samuel assumes that it must be the first son - or at least the second, but God picks the youngest who seems the least likely. Again God shows us that it is not human qualifications that he is interested in. He has his own ideas of who can serve him.
We get the well known story of David and Goliath and then the friendship between Jonathan and David and the strife between David and Saul.
The book ends with the death of Saul and Saul's sons and with that the way is set for the reign of King David.
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