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March 17, 2024Episodes 71-77 summary
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March 17, 2024Ep. 77. 1 Samuel 15-16 | David Anointed King
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Notice immediately the difference between this battle and the one highlighted for us in chapter 13. In the previous lesson, Saul took three thousand people with him to war, but here, in chapter fifteen, he has over two hundred thousand men with him. This helps us see the difference between the beginning of his kingdom and what he's like as his kingdom became established. God's command to Saul is clear and not dissimilar to the command God gave Joshua several centuries earlier, "Devote to destruction all they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey."
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March 16, 2024Ep. 76. 1 Samuel 13-14 | Saul and the Philistines
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Don't skip the footnotes in your Bible on 13:1. Some translations say that Saul was thirty and reigned for forty-two years. Others leave the numbers out. In the most reliable manuscripts, we aren't sure of the age at which Saul became king, and the only number we have for the year he reigned is "two." Stephen helps us out with the length of Saul's reign in Acts 13:21, where we read that Saul was king for 40 years. Another translation has been offered for the first verse, "Saul was [thirty] years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for two years over Israel." This reading of the first verse would tell us that the story we are about to read took place in the second year of his kingship. We know from the New Testament he was king for forty years. His age at the beginning does not reshape the text for us; neither is the timeline of this story so important to nail down that we are cheated if we can't discern where in his reign these two chapters took place...
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March 15, 2024Ep. 75. 1 Samuel 8-10 | Saul, The King
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Does it surprise us that the Israelites demanded a king so they could be like "all the nations?" They have been serving the nations' idols since they left Egypt, so it's not surprising that they would also want to be like the other nations in terms of their government. Sadly, the Israelites missed that God was already their King. Their demand for a king is not a rejection of Samuel as prophet and judge but of God as the Sovereign King. They have forsaken God and served idols "from the day [he] brought them out of Egypt even to this day." Again, the Old Testament shows us a few faithful people, but the bulk of the OT is the rebellion against God by the Israelites. (The prophets don't show up to tell everyone what a great job they're doing) We see that Samuel warns the people of how the king they want will take their crops, animals, sons and daughters, and their income. Moses had instructed them four centuries earlier about how the king they'd eventually appoint should write out a copy of the Law and study it daily. There will not be a single king who does that...
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March 14, 2024Ep. 74. 1 Samuel 5-7 | The Ark
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The imagery of 1 Samuel 5 is locked in my head forever. I love that the Philistines set up the Ark before their idol, Dagon. I do not know how big of an idol we are talking about here, but I imagine him to be sizeable. I've seen some pretty big ones on my trips to India, and I imagine a statue of Dagon towering 10-12 feet high with the Ark of God before it. The following morning, the Philistines went into their temple to find Dagon on his face before the Ark of the Covenant. So they set him up, as you do for your false god. The next morning, Dagon had fallen down again, but this time, his head and hands had broken off and landed on the threshold of the temple door. What a crazy site that must have been. It was so impactful on the Philistines that from that moment forward, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon "do not tread on the threshold." It's a specific act. They can't dare to step where the head and hands of their so-called god had fallen. But what is perhaps most interesting is that the Jews adopted this practice...
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March 13, 2024Ep. 73. 1 Samuel 3-4 | Samuel and The Philistines
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I'm going to jump straight to chapter 4 today. The first verse says Israel went to camp at Ebenezer. It is helpful to know that it has not been named "Ebenezer" yet. It will not receive that name until chapter seven, so why is it called Ebenezer in chapters four and five? The answer is quite simple; by the time the book of Samuel was being compiled, the place had already been named "Ebenezer." It doesn't matter what its former name was if people already knew it as Ebenezer. The same thing happens in Genesis. Bethel is a famous city mentioned several times prior to Genesis 28 but isn't named Bethel until chapter 28. How can this be? Again, Moses, who is considered the author of Genesis, was giving the history of the Hebrews with names they were familiar with. My grandmother used to own some land in Canada right along the Red Deer River. She named the property Pourquoi, meaning "why." But prior to my grandmother and her siblings' ownership, the land was a logging camp complete with an old dilapidated logger's cabin. If I were to write a book about the land for my family, I would call the land Pourquoi even when telling stories about the land hundreds of years before it received that moniker. I would do this so they could know immediately what place I was talking about. These things happen often in the Bible and shouldn't unseat us. But perhaps it's not even something that really matters to us at all, and now I've droned on about minor details. Let's revisit God's curse on Eli...
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March 12, 2024Ep. 72. 1 Samuel 1-2 | Birth of Samuel
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Let's start with the priesthood of Samuel. It bothered me that Samuel was allowed to work in and around the tent of meeting, seeing that he was "of Ephraim." But being "of Ephraim" and being of the tribe of Ephraim are two different things. In the genealogy of 1 Chronicles, yes, those nine boring chapters, we find that the genealogy of Samuel is traced back to the tribe of Levi and specifically to the line of Levi known as the Kohathites. The people of Kohath's line were in charge of carrying the holy things of God on their shoulders when they moved from place to place. Aside from the priests themselves, the Kohathites were arguably the second most important Levitical position. You may remember Korah and his famous rebellion in Numbers chapter 16. Korah was of Kohath.
So why, then, does it say that Samuel and his family were in the Ramah of Ephraim? Remember that the Levites were not given any land of their own and were instead given various cities to dwell in among the rest of the tribes of Israel. We see in Joshuah 21 that Ephraim gave some of their cities and pasture land to the people of Kohath. So then, Samuel is a descendant of the Kohathites of Levi and allowed to minister in the presence of the Lord, though he should have waited until he was significantly older than a weaned child...
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March 11, 2024Ep. 71. Judges 13-16 | Samson
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Samson provides us with a fascinating story here in the book of Judges. He's a childhood favorite, though it has to be for his show of strength and not for his moral fortitude.
God set Samson apart as a Nazarite from the womb. God intended to use Samson to "begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines." "Begin" is the key word. God would also use Samuel the prophet and Saul to a small degree, but ultimately, deliverance from the Philistines would come during the reign of David.
I believe there is probably some overlap between the lives of Samson and Samuel. It would not surprise me to find that the overlap is significant. We tend to think of these two men separated by years, partly because of the placement of the Samson narrative within the book of Judges and partly because we want to assume that the start of a new book like Samuel must also mean a change in the timeframe. As we will see in the prophets, this is not always the case...
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March 10, 2024Episodes 64-70 summary
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March 10, 2024Ep. 70. Judges 10-12 | Jephthah
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The best part, in my opinion, of the Jephthah narrative is that it gives us a reasonable anchor point for our timeline. Our brains look for patterns, even seeing some that aren't actually there. So when we find ourselves halfway through the book of Judges, the inclination is to think we've made it about halfway through the approximately 350 years of the book. But we already know that not to be the case since we understand that the last five chapters of the book should likely occur at the beginning of the book. Jephthah does us the great kindness of mentioning that it has been "300 years" since the Hebrew people took a claim on the land of the Ammonites. He brilliantly summarizes the journey from Egypt to the Red Sea and down to Kadesh. He recounts the troubles they faced from Edom, Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Balak, king of Moab. Jephthah boldly says, "Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess." ...

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