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Looking for Samuel

1) Samuel - comparing faithfulness to Yah.weh

- When the story of Samuel starts in the book of Samuel, Samuel doesn’t exist yet!
- We are told about his family!
- We are told about his father Elkanah and his two wives: Hanʹnah and Pe·ninʹnah!
- Pe·ninʹnah has children but Hanʹnah is childless!
- They are rival wives!
- Elkanah loves Hanʹnah but Pe·ninʹna has children!
- And they always fight!
- And as usual, Elkanah doesn’t understand anything!
- He is a stranger in his own house!
- But Yah.weh has always taught men about that but they never listen!
 
2) Samuel - comparing faithfulness to Yah.weh

- Hanʹnah gives Samuel to serve in Yah.weh’s house and Yah.weh will give her more children!
-Thus Samuel won’t live long with his own family!
- He goes directly to Yah.weh’s house to serve Yah.weh!
- He is the only one we are told about as a child!
- And that’s a big difference!
- Here we can see the importance to develop a strong relationship to Yah.weh!
- Samuel is the best example of that!
- There is no time to lose!
- But being in Yah.weh’s house wasn’t secure at all!
- Yah.weh had left Israel!
- Eli’s two sons were very bad examples of what not to do!
- Samuel could have followed them!
- But Yah.weh was there to protect and teach and speak to him!
- Thus Samuel’s situation or context was not better!
 
3) Samuel - comparing faithfulness to Yah.weh

- Now is it different with Samuel!
- Not at all!
- Because the connection is his mother Hannah!
- 1 SAMUEL 1:10
In her bitter distress,
מָ֣רַת (mā·raṯ)
Adjective - feminine singular construct
Strong's 4751: Bitter, bitterness, bitterly

Hannah prayed
וַתִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל (wat·tiṯ·pal·lêl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 6419: To judge, to intercede, pray

to
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

and wept
וּבָכֹ֥ה (ū·ḇā·ḵōh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 1058: To weep, to bemoan

with many tears.
תִבְכֶּֽה׃ (ṯiḇ·keh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1058: To weep, to bemoan

  • Hannah prayed to Yah.weh and wept with many tears!

  • 1 SAMUEL 1:11

And she made
וַתִּדֹּ֨ר (wat·tid·dōr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5087: To promise

a vow,
נֶ֜דֶר (ne·ḏer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5088: A promise, a thing promised

pleading,
וַתֹּאמַ֗ר (wat·tō·mar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“O LORD
יְהוָ֨ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

of Hosts,
צְבָא֜וֹת (ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ)
Noun - common plural
Strong's 6635: A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign

if
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

only
רָאֹ֥ה (rā·’ōh)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 7200: To see

You will look
תִרְאֶ֣ה ׀ (ṯir·’eh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

upon the affliction
בָּעֳנִ֣י (bā·‘o·nî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6040: Affliction, poverty

of Your maidservant
אֲמָתֶ֗ךָ (’ă·mā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 519: A maidservant, female slave

and remember me,
וּזְכַרְתַּ֙נִי֙ (ū·zə·ḵar·ta·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

not
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

forgetting [Your maidservant]
תִשְׁכַּ֣ח (ṯiš·kaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

but giving
וְנָתַתָּ֥ה (wə·nā·ṯat·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

[her]
אֲמָתֶ֔ךָ (’ă·mā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 519: A maidservant, female slave

a son,
זֶ֣רַע (ze·ra‘)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

then I will dedicate him
וּנְתַתִּ֤יו (ū·nə·ṯat·tîw)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

to the LORD
לַֽיהוָה֙ (Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the days
יְמֵ֣י (yə·mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of his life,
חַיָּ֔יו (ḥay·yāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

and no
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

razor
וּמוֹרָ֖ה (ū·mō·w·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4177: A razor

shall ever come
יַעֲלֶ֥ה (ya·‘ă·leh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

over
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

his head.�
רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃ (rō·šōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7218: The head

  • I will dedicate him to Yah.weh ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE!
  • AND NO RAZOR SHALL EVER COME OVER HIS HEAD!
  • 1 SAMUEL 1:13

Hannah
וְחַנָּ֗ה (wə·ḥan·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2584: Hannah -- mother of Samuel

was praying
מְדַבֶּ֣רֶת (mə·ḏab·be·reṯ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

in
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

her heart,
לִבָּ֔הּ (lib·bāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

and though
רַ֚ק (raq)
Adverb
Strong's 7535: But, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless

her lips
שְׂפָתֶ֣יהָ (śə·p̄ā·ṯe·hā)
Noun - fdc | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin

were moving,
נָּע֔וֹת (nā·‘ō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 5128: To quiver, wave, waver, tremble, totter

her voice
וְקוֹלָ֖הּ (wə·qō·w·lāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

could not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

be heard.
יִשָּׁמֵ֑עַ (yiš·šā·mê·a‘)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

So Eli
עֵלִ֖י (‘ê·lî)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5941: Eli -- a priest at Shiloh

thought
וַיַּחְשְׁבֶ֥הָ (way·yaḥ·šə·ḇe·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 2803: To think, account

she was drunk
לְשִׁכֹּרָֽה׃ (lə·šik·kō·rāh)
Preposition-l | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7910: Intoxicated, as a, state, a habit

  • YES, you have well heard!
  • Hannah was praying in her heart!
  • And Eli thought she was drunk!
  • BUT ONCE AGAIN we can say that FAITHFULNESS IS CONNECTED TO MORAL AND SPIRITUAL PURITY!
  • HERE ARE HIGH STANDARDS!
  • THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE WORLD MODERN STANDARDS!
  • ON THE CONTRARY, THEY ARE COMPLETELY OPPOSITE!
 
98) God and Samuel / Samuel and God

chap 22


- Saul now said: “Listen, please, you son of A·hiʹtub!” to which he replied: “Here I am, my lord.” Saul said to him: “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, by giving him bread and a sword and by making an inquiry of God for him? He opposes me and waits in ambush, as is now the case.” At this Ahimelech answered the king: “Who among all your servants is as trustworthy as David? He is the king’s son-in-law and a chief over your bodyguard and honored in your house. Was today the first time I inquired of God for him? What you are saying is unthinkable on my part! Do not let the king hold anything against his servant and against my father’s entire house, for your servant did not know a single thing about any of this.”


- Ahimelech tells Saul about everything but Saul doesn’t want to listen!


- We can see how Saul progressively goes away from God and from doing what is right!


- He is the king so he thinks nobody can oppose his will!


- Now he speaks against God’s priests!


- Once again Samuel’s words were too true!


- Saul lives in his own world away from reality!


- And it happens the same way with other kings when they don’t want to listen to anybody!


- You don’t care about your mistakes!


- You don’t learn from them!


- You make more mistakes and you go to a dead end!
 
99) God and Samuel / Samuel and God

chap 22


- But the king said: “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you along with all your father’s house.” With that the king said to the guards stationed around him: “Turn and kill the priests of Yah.weh, because they have sided with David! They knew that he was a runaway, and they did not inform me!” But the king’s servants did not want to lift their hands to assault the priests of Yah.weh.


- Saul is completely blind!


- He doesn’t care about God anymore!


- He fights against him!


- He wants to kill Yah.weh’s priests!


- But his servants are not crazy like him, they refuse to kill them!


- He acts like a stupid child!


- He doesn’t think about the high price he will have to pay!


- That is he and all his house are going to receive the same treatment that is death and not a peaceful one!
 
100) God and Samuel / Samuel and God

chap 22


- Then the king said to Doeg: “You turn and assault the priests!” Immediately Doeg the Edomite went and assaulted the priests himself. He killed on that day 85 men wearing the linen ephod. He also struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the sword; man as well as woman, child as well as infant, bull, donkey, and sheep, he put to the sword. However, one son of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, whose name was Abiathar, escaped and ran away to follow David. Abiathar told David: “Saul has killed the priests of God.” At this David said to Abiathar: “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would be sure to tell Saul. I am personally responsible for the death of everyone in your father’s house. Stay with me. Do not be afraid, for whoever seeks your life seeks my life; you are under my protection.”


- Thus 85 men are killed but also the women and the children!


- What an abomination!


- But God is patient!


- And he will strike Saul and all his house in due time!


- It was so different each time the Israelites opposed God!


- Then he wanted to destroy them completely and without waiting!


- Only Moses could prevent him from doing it!


- Let’s remember all these facts!


- And keep them in our mind!


- There is always a price to pay!
 
101) God and Samuel / Samuel and God

chap 23


- According to God, David fights against the philistines who went against the city of Keilah!


- He does everything according to God’s will!


- And Saul goes after David!


- But David leaves Keilah!


- David and Jonathan make a covenant!


- Saul is about to capture David!


- But he has to leave him alone to go after the Philistines!


- Thus David listens to God and God helps him!


- But he will become king!


- And things will change as usual and as Samuel said!
 
102) God and Samuel / Samuel and God

chap 24


- Saul goes to look for David!


- And David has the possibility to kill Saul!


- But he doesn’t do it because he is the anointed of God!


- When Saul realizes that David could have killed him, he goes back home!


- Thus David keeps being faithful to God!


- But things will change when he becomes king!


- It is as Samuel told the Israelites but they didn’t listen to him!


- And they paid the price!
 
4) Samuel - comparing faithfulness to Yah.weh

- Samuel is younger than Daniel!
- But like Job and Daniel, he doesn’t need refinement!
- Yah.weh will give him the road map directly!
- And Samuel will always follow it!
- He will know what to do in any situation!
- Every time, it will be as clear as crystal!
- He will be raised in Yah.weh’s house!
- He will be raised among Eli’s sons’ corruption!
- But he will keep being faithful!
- Here we get three incredible examples of faithfulness!
- Why Israel?
- Why Mankind?
- It is much more than just free will!
- It means getting the right road map and sticking to it day and night!
- And staying away from man’s tradition!
 
103) God and Samuel / Samuel and God

chap 25


- Nabal is a rich man!


- David sends some of his men to Nabal to ask for some food because he protected Nabal’s men!


- But Nabal doesn’t care!


- So David wants to kill him!


- But Abigail, Nabal’s wife, hearing about it, decides to take food for David and his men!


- And because of Abigail’s attitude he decides not to kill Nabal!


- But God strikes him and he dies!


- And David decides to take Abigail as his wife!


- Once again David shows himself as a man of God!


- But he is not yet king!
 
104) God and Samuel / Samuel and God

chap 26


- Once again Saul goes after David!


- Once again David has the possibility to kill Saul but he doesn’t do it!


- When Saul hears about it, he returns to his place!


- So once again David shows himself as a man of God!


- But he is not yet king!
 
5) Samuel - comparing faithfulness to Yah.weh

- First they get their roadmap engraved in their hearts!
- Second, they constantly act to stay on the road!
- Third, they keep away from man’s corruption and spiritual prostitution!
- Fourth, they get a constant connection to Yah.weh!
- Thanks to Hannah, Samuel is sent to Yah.weh’s house!
- There he can get his roadmap engraved in his heart directly from Yah.weh!
- There he learns to keep away from man’s corruption and spiritual prostitution from Yah.weh!
- But it is a personal choice: he could have chosen Eli’s sons’ bad choice!
- There he get a constant connection to Yah.weh!
 
105) God and Samuel / Samuel and God

chap 27


- Finally David decides to escape to the land of the Philistines because he thinks Saul will kill him!


- And he raids the Philistines and kill everybody to leave no evidence!


- And he tells Achish the Philistine king that he has raided the south of Judah!


- Whatever David does he does it according to God’s will!


But he is not yet king!
 
6) Samuel - comparing faithfulness to Yah.weh

- ISRAEL is CORRUPTION!
- As a consequence, Yah.weh has left ISRAEL!
- Through Hannah, FAITHFULNESS will be reintroduced into ISRAEL!
- Yah.weh will start again from scratch!
- Think about:
- Even Yah.weh’s house is corrupted because of Eli and his two sons!
- And SAMUEL will be FAITHFUL all his life!
- FAITHFULNESS VS CORRUPTION!
- And SAMUEL’s sons will also be corrupted!
- YAH.WEH’s kingdom will put an end to CORRUPTION by cleaning the earth and human society!
- WE CAN IMAGINE THERE WILL BE A LOT TO DO!
- AND WE MUST PREPARE OURSELVES WHEN IT IS STILL TIME!
- NOT WHEN IT IS TOO LATE!
 
106) God and Samuel / Samuel and God

chap 28


- Time has come for the philistines and the Israelites to fight!


- Saul is afraid because God never answers him!


- So he asks his servants for a medium!


- Then Saul disguises himself and goes to see her!


- He wants to speak to Samuel!


- Then the woman realizes he is Saul who put to death mediums according to God’s will!


- She thinks he wants to kill her!


- But Saul tells her not to be afraid!


- As a matter of fact, Saul keeps walking against God!


- First, he offered a sacrifice without waiting for Samuel!


- Second, he saved a king and possessions he was supposed to destroy!


- And he was rejected by God!


- Then Samuel never entered in contact with him till his death!


- Then he goes to see a medium whereas he shouldn’t do it because it is against God’s will!


- And he wants to speak to Samuel after his death whereas Samuel never did it when he was rejected by God!


- So of course, He could speak with a spirit but it could be Samuel!


- A spirit appearing like Samuel!


- And this spirit tells him that he will die and loses the battle and David will get his kingdom!


- And in fact the medium speaks of the spirit as one like a god coming up out of the earth!


- What a lesson!


- Saul opposes God and he thinks he will escape!


- It is ridiculous!


- May we remember this lesson!


- We must look for God’s word and not man’s tradition!


- We must look for God’s will, not man’s will!


- Otherwise we will pay the price!


- But apparently the majority doesn’t care!


- They do like Saul and will get his fate!


- We should listen to Samuel who was faithful to God from the beginning to the end of his life!


- There is no secret, it is simple!
 
107) God and Samuel / Samuel and God

chap 29


- The princes of the Philistines don’t want David to fight with them against the Israelites!


- And David leaves them


Chap 30


- When David comes back to Ziklag, the Amalekites have burnt it and taken captive all the inhabitants and the possessions!


- And he asks God what to do!


- God tells him to chase the Amalekites!


- And David strikes the Amalekites and gets everything back!


- And he comes back to Ziklag!


- Thus here we have two attitudes: David keeps obeying god and is blessed and Saul doesn’t and keeps being rejected by God and will end badly!


- David should have kept that way but he will becomes king!


- Let’s not forget it!
 
108) God and Samuel / Samuel and God

chap 31


- The Israelites are defeated by the Philistines!


- Saul and his three sons die!


- The philistines cut Saul’s head!


2 Samuel


- David becomes king!


- Later he will commit adultery with Bath-Sheba!


- He has Bath-Sheba’s husband, Uriah, killed!


- Then he takes Bath-Sheba as wife!


- David will get into trouble for the rest of his life for what he has done!


- David will organize a census of the people against God’s will!


- The price: pestilence kills 70,000 Israelites!


- Just as Samuel said, human kings would bring big troubles without exception!


- And it wasn’t different from Solomon with all his wisdom!
 
109)

- Saul and his three sons died in a battle as a consequence of God rejecting Saul: DETERIORATION!


- David was a faithful servant of God before becoming king but he got into trouble as a consequence of really bad deeds: DETERIORATION!


- Solomon received wisdom from God but he started to collect women and ended badly serving false God: DETERIORATION!


- Abraham was a faithful servant of God!


- His son Isaac was a faithful servant of god!


- Jacob was a faithful servant of God!


- Then Dinah was raped and his sons killed men because of the deeds of one man: deterioration!
 
110)

1) - First key: Samuel’s mother!

- If she hadn’t been barren she wouldn’t have done a vow to God!

- She wouldn’t have sent his son to serve God at God’s house!

- Samuel wouldn’t have existed or would have lived a different life!

- He wouldn’t have become a high priest and prophet and judge!

- God would have chosen somebody else!

- Imagine a road with more judges instead of kings!

- It wouldn’t have changed because Israel acted according to its judges!

- Sometimes following God but mostly away from God!

- At the end of the road, Jesus had to come and God’s word had to spread all around the world!

- But we would have lost an incredible source of faithfulness and it has no price to guide us to a basic relationship to God or to a stronger one!

- That’s a big difference!
 
111)

2) - Second key: Eli!

- Eli could have educated his two sons in a better way!

- Or he could have prevented them from doing what they did!

- Or he could have taken away their position as priest!

- Samuel could have had better examples!

- God could have not spoken to Samuel!

- He could have become just a priest but not a judge and prophet!

- At the end of the road, Jesus had to come and God’s word had to spread all around the world!

- But we would have lost an incredible source of faithfulness and it has no price to guide us to a basic relationship to God or to a stronger one!

- That’s a big difference!
 
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