1 Samuel
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Session 1 · 1 Samuel 1–5
A barren woman sings, and the glory departs.
- Hannah vows a son to the LORD at Shiloh, Samuel is born, and she lends the weaned child to the house of God.
- Hannah sings of the LORD who casts down and lifts up, while Hophni and Phinehas despise the offering and a prophet sentences Eli's house.
- The LORD calls Samuel in the night, the boy answers that he is listening, and the word against Eli is not hidden from him.
- Israel carries the ark into battle, the Philistines capture it, Eli's sons die, Eli breaks his neck, and the child is named Ichabod.
- The ark is set in Dagon's house, the idol falls and breaks, and tumors and panic follow it through the Philistine cities.
Session 2 · 1 Samuel 6–10
The ark returns, and Israel asks for a king.
- The ark comes home on a cart drawn by milk cows, and men of Beth-shemesh die because they look into it.
- Samuel gathers Israel at Mizpah, the LORD thunders against the Philistines, and a stone is named Ebenezer.
- Samuel's sons take bribes, and the elders demand a king like the nations, which the LORD calls a rejection of himself.
- Saul, hunting lost donkeys, is told by Samuel that Israel's desire is for him and for his father's house.
- Samuel anoints Saul, the Spirit rushes on him, the lot finds him among the baggage, and the people cry out that the king live.
Session 3 · 1 Samuel 11–15
Saul saves Jabesh, then loses the kingdom.
- The Spirit rushes on Saul, he cuts a yoke of oxen, and Jabesh-gilead is rescued from Nahash of Ammon.
- Samuel calls thunder and rain in the wheat harvest so Israel will know that asking for a king was evil, and he promises still to pray.
- Saul offers the burnt offering at Gilgal when Samuel delays, and Samuel says the LORD has sought a man after his own heart.
- Jonathan and his armor-bearer climb to the Philistine garrison, Saul's oath starves the people, and the army refuses to let Jonathan die for tasting honey.
- Saul spares Agag and the best of Amalek's flocks, Samuel says obedience is better than sacrifice, and the torn robe means a torn kingdom.
Session 4 · 1 Samuel 16–20
A shepherd is anointed, and a giant falls.
- Samuel anoints David at Bethlehem while Saul still reigns, the Spirit comes on the shepherd, and David is brought to soothe the king with the lyre.
- David kills Goliath in the Valley of Elah with a sling and the giant's own sword, and he says the battle belongs to the LORD.
- Jonathan covenants with David, the women sing of ten thousands, and Saul's jealousy tries to pin David to the wall.
- Michal lets David down through a window, and at Naioth the Spirit throws Saul down among the prophets.
- Jonathan and David swear before the LORD, Saul hurls a spear at his son, and the arrows tell David to flee.
Session 5 · 1 Samuel 21–25
Holy bread, a murdered priesthood, and a spared king.
- Ahimelech gives David the bread of the Presence and Goliath's sword at Nob, and David feigns madness before Achish of Gath.
- Doeg reports the visit, Saul orders the priests killed, Doeg strikes Nob, and Abiathar escapes to David with the ephod.
- David saves Keilah, learns the city will betray him, and is strengthened by Jonathan in the wilderness of Ziph.
- In the cave at En-gedi David cuts Saul's robe and then refuses to strike the LORD's anointed.
- Samuel dies, Abigail stops David from shedding Nabal's blood, and the LORD himself strikes the fool.
Session 6 · 1 Samuel 26–30
A spared spear, a medium, and a burned town.
- David and Abishai take Saul's spear and water jar by night and again refuse to touch the LORD's anointed.
- David settles at Ziklag under Achish, raids Israel's old enemies, and lies to the Philistine king about where he has struck.
- Saul, unanswered by the LORD, goes to the medium at En-dor, and Samuel announces that Saul and his sons will fall tomorrow.
- The Philistine lords reject David from the march to Jezreel, and Achish sends him back to Ziklag.
- Amalekites burn Ziklag and take the families, David inquires and recovers all, and he rules that the baggage guard shares the spoil.
Session 7 · 1 Samuel 31
Saul falls on his own sword at Gilboa.
- Saul and his sons die on Mount Gilboa, the Philistines hang his body at Beth-shan, and the men of Jabesh-gilead take him down and fast.