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1 Samuel

1 Samuel opens with “A Barren Woman and a Boy Who Hears” and carries its history toward “Two Chances, and a Night at Endor.” Hannah prays so hard the priest thinks she is drunk, and the son she is given she gives back. Twice David has Saul at the end of a blade, once in a cave and once asleep in his own camp, and both times he takes a piece of cloth or a spear instead of a life.

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1 Samuel 1–7
A Barren Woman and a Boy Who Hears
Hannah prays so hard the priest thinks she is drunk, and the son she is given she gives back. Samuel grows up in a house where Eli’s sons steal from the offerings and sleep with the women at the door. A voice calls the boy three times in the night, and the word of the LORD, which had been rare, stops being rare.
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Poured Out Before the LORD
Speak, for Thy Servant Heareth
No God Can Stand Before the Ark
Hitherto Hath the LORD Helped Us
1 Samuel, The Shepherd Is Chosen
David Recovered All
The Prayer of Hannah
The Witch of Endor
Hannah's Song
Speak, Lord
Dagon Fell
Better Than Sacrifice
The Shepherd Anointed
The Giant Fell
I Will Not Touch the Lord's Anointed
The Last Night of Saul
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Every Idol Falls David Recovered All Saul Seeks the Medium of Endor The Book of 1 Samuel in Song
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1 Samuel 8–12
Give Us a King
Israel asks for a king so it can be like the other nations, and Samuel is told the request is not a rejection of him. He reads out what a king will take: sons, daughters, fields, a tenth of everything. They say give us one anyway, and Saul is found looking for lost donkeys.
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Hitherto Hath the LORD Helped Us
Hidden Among the Baggage
Fear the LORD and Serve Him
1 Samuel, The Shepherd Is Chosen
Give Us a King
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1 Samuel 13–15
Obedience Is Better Than Sacrifice
Saul cannot wait the seven days and offers the sacrifice himself, then spares a king and the best of the livestock and calls it worship. Samuel answers that obedience is better than sacrifice, tears his robe on the way out, and does not see Saul again.
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There Is No Restraint to the LORD
To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice
1 Samuel, The Shepherd Is Chosen
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1 Samuel 16–20
The Shepherd, the Giant, and the Spear
The youngest son is called in from the sheep and anointed in front of his brothers. He carries bread to the front line, hears the giant, and goes out with five stones. Afterwards the women sing a song with the wrong arithmetic in it, and a spear comes at him twice.
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The LORD Looketh on the Heart
Who Is This Uncircumcised Philistine?Knit to the Soul of David
1 Samuel, The Shepherd Is Chosen
Run at the Giant
Covenant of Brothers
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1 Samuel 21–27
On the Run with Six Hundred Men
David eats the bread of the Presence, pretends to be mad in front of a foreign king, and gathers everyone in debt or distress into a fighting company. A priest’s whole town is killed for feeding him, and one survivor reaches him with the news.
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Bread, Sword, and the Cave
I Will Not Stretch Forth My Hand
Blessed Be Thy Advice
1 Samuel, The Shepherd Is Chosen
Covenant of Brothers
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1 Samuel 28–31
Two Chances, and a Night at Endor
Twice David has Saul at the end of a blade, once in a cave and once asleep in his own camp, and both times he takes a piece of cloth or a spear instead of a life. He hides among the Philistines, loses his town and family at Ziklag and takes them back. Saul, with Samuel dead and heaven silent, goes to a medium at Endor, and dies the next day on Gilboa with his sons.
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The Glory of Israel upon Gilboa
1 Samuel, The Shepherd Is Chosen

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Better Than Sacrifice
1 Samuel 13; 15
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Hannah's Song
1 Samuel 1-2
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I Will Not Touch the Lord's Anointed
1 Samuel 24; 26
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Give Us a King
1 Samuel 8-10
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Covenant of Brothers
1 Samuel 18-23
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Speak, Lord
1 Samuel 3
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The Giant Fell
1 Samuel 17
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The Shepherd Anointed
1 Samuel 16
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The Last Night of Saul
1 Samuel 28; 31
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The Prayer of Hannah
1 Samuel 1-2
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Run at the Giant
1 Samuel 17:40-49
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The Witch of Endor
1 Samuel 28
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David Recovered All
1 Samuel 30
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1 Samuel, The Shepherd Is Chosen
1 Samuel 1:1-31:13
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Every Idol Falls
1 Samuel 5:1-12
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Fear the LORD and Serve Him
1 Samuel 11:1-12:25
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Hidden Among the Baggage
1 Samuel 9:1-10:27
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Hitherto Hath the LORD Helped Us
1 Samuel 7:2-8:22
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I Will Not Stretch Forth My Hand
1 Samuel 23:1-24:22
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Knit to the Soul of David
1 Samuel 18:1-20:42
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No God Can Stand Before the Ark
1 Samuel 4:1-7:1
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Speak, for Thy Servant Heareth
1 Samuel 2:12-3:21
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The LORD Looketh on the Heart
1 Samuel 16:1-23
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There Is No Restraint to the LORD
1 Samuel 13:1-14:52
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Who Is This Uncircumcised Philistine
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Poured Out Before the LORD
1 Samuel 1:1-2:11
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To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice
1 Samuel 15:1-35
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Bread, Sword, and the Cave
1 Samuel 21:1-22:23
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Blessed Be Thy Advice
1 Samuel 25:1-27:12
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The Glory of Israel upon Gilboa
1 Samuel 28:1-31:13
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Who Is This Uncircumcised Philistine?
1 Samuel 17:1-58
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