The Big Idea

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The Big Idea

• Of the
• Old Testament

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Samuel
Saul

• Tribe of Benjamin
• City of Gibeah
• Anointed as King

• Judge
• Prophet
• Priest

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And he took a yoke of oxen and cut them in
pieces, and sent them throughout the territory of
Israel by the hand of messengers, saying,
Whoever does not come out after Saul and after
Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. (1
Samuel 117)
AMMON
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1 Samuel 151-3

• 1 Then Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to
  anoint you as king over His people, over Israel
  now therefore, listen to the words of the LORD.
• 2 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I will punish
  Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set
  himself against him on the way while he was
  coming up from Egypt. 3 Now go and strike Amalek
  and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not
  spare him but put to death both man and woman,
  child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and
  donkey.'"

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Israel

• Amalekites

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1 Samuel 1522

• And Samuel said,
• Has the LORD as much 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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1 Samuel 1523

• "For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
• And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.
• Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
• He has also rejected you from being king."

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1 Samuel 1527-28

• 27 And as Samuel turned to go, Saul seized the
  edge of his robe, and it tore.
• 28 So Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the
  kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given
  it to your neighbor who is better than you.

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Davids Rise to Power
The Goliath Incident
Growing Popularity
Fugitive
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So the Philistines gathered together and came
and camped in Shunem and Saul gathered all
Israel together and they camped in Gilboa. (1
Samuel 285).
Shunem
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Mount Gilboa
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Endor
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Philistines
Armies of Israel
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1 Samuel 2811-12

• Then the woman said, Whom shall I bring up for
  you? And he said, Bring up Samuel for me.
• When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a
  loud voice and the woman spoke to Saul, saying,
  Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul.

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1 Samuel 2813-14

• And the king said to her, Do not be afraid but
  what do you see? And the woman said to Saul, I
  see a divine being Elohim coming up out of the
  earth.
• And he said to her, What is his form? And she
  said, An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped
  with a robe. And Saul knew that it was Samuel,
  and he bowed with his face to the ground and did
  homage.

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1 Samuel 2818-19

• As you did not obey the Lord and did not
  execute His fierce wrath of Amalek, so the Lord
  has done this thing to you this day.
• Moreover the Lord will also give over Israel
  along with you into the hands of the Philistines,
  therefore tomorrow you and your sons will be with
  me. Indeed the Lord will give over the army of
  Israel into the hands of the Philistines!

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David as King

• King over Judah
• King over Israel
• Capital in Jerusalem

Jerusalem
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Hebron
JUDAH
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ASSYRIA
Solomons Kingdom
EGYPT
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1 Kings 425
Dan ?

• So Judah and Israel lived in safety, every man
  under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to
  Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

? Beersheba
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And it came about when the priests came from the
holy place, that the cloud filled the house of
the LORD, 11 so that the priests could not stand
to minister because of the cloud, for the glory
of the LORD filled the house of the LORD. (1
Kings 811-12).
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1 Kings 111-2

• Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along
  with the daughter of Pharaoh Moabite, Ammonite,
  Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2 from the
  nations concerning which the LORD had said to the
  sons of Israel, "You shall not associate with
  them, neither shall they associate with you, for
  they will surely turn your heart away after their
  gods." Solomon held fast to these in love.

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1 Kings 113-4

• And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and
  three hundred concubines, and his wives turned
  his heart away. 4 For it came about when Solomon
  was old, his wives turned his heart away after
  other gods and his heart was not wholly devoted
  to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his
  father had been.

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1 Kings 1130-31

• Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was
  on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.
• And he said to Jeroboam, Take for yourself ten
  pieces for thus says the Lord, the God of
  Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of
  the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes.

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1 Samuel 15

• Samuel Saul
• Saul tears Samuels robe and it is used as a
  picture of the kingdom being torn from Saul

1 Kings 11
Ahijah Jeroboam Ahijah tears his robe and gives
10 pieces to Jeroboam to illustrate how the
kingdom will be torn apart
Matthew 27Mark 15Luke 23
Jesus on the Cross The veil of the temple is torn
from top to bottom to show the way to the kingdom
of God has been opened
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