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Son of saul bible9/24/2023 ![]() ![]() We meet the first king of Israel in today’s passage: Saul, son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin (9:1–2). Nevertheless, the Lord decided to give His people what they wanted, telling Samuel to appoint the one whom God would reveal (1 Sam. They were, in effect, rejecting the kingship of God Himself. They wanted a king modeled after the kings of the other nations, one who would glory in his own strength. When the Israelites came to Samuel and demanded a king, they were not looking for the kind of godly monarch that they were supposed to prize according to Deuteronomy 17:14–20.
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