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The Message of Samuel: Personalities, Potential, Politics and Power is unavailable, but you can change that!

The books of 1 and 2 Samuel witnesses the transition of Israel from tribal confederacy to established monarchy. And during such transition, questions of identity and power are unavoidable. In the aftermath of the decline of the judges, priests abuse their priestly privileges, a people covets the centralized authority of its impious neighbors, and a throne is won, forsaken, redeemed, lost, and...

There is no doubt that the writer is making a specific point in 11:1. In the fighting season kings go off to war … But David remained in Jerusalem. It seems that David was a man of huge but fairly short-lived enthusiasms, an excellent initiator of projects, but not quite so good in maintainance mode. He was a gifted soldier, but preferred it when there was an edge to the fight, when he
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