“He said, ‘Here is the kind of rulings your king will make: he will draft your sons and assign them to take care of his chariots, be his horsemen and be bodyguards running ahead of his chariots.  He will appoint them to serve him as officers in charge of a thousand or of fifty, plowing […]

“They are doing to you exactly what they have been doing to me, from the day I brought them out of Egypt until today, by abandoning me and serving other gods.  So do what they say, but give them a sober warning, telling them what kinds of rulings their king will make.”1 Samuel 8:8-9 We’re […]

Let’s examine a bit deeper what God really meant when He told Samuel… ‘Listen to the people, to everything they say to you; for it is not you they are rejecting; they are rejecting me; they don’t want me to be king over them.” So here’s the thing. Samuel was a God-appointed SHOPHET or Judge. […]

“Adonai said to Sh’mu’el, ‘Listen to the people, to everything they say to you; for it is not you they are rejecting; they are rejecting me; they don’t want me to be king over them.’”-1 Samuel 8:7 Alrighty, let’s get our bearings of where we’re at in our study of 1 Samuel. The situation is […]

There’s one other reason Israel desired a king that I haven’t mentioned yet. It’s the fact that God created mankind to want a king. That’s right. I’m saying it’s in our human nature to want to be ruled over and cared for by one all-powerful person. Without a king, men have a vacuum in their […]