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The bestselling Encountering the Old Testament has become the leading Old Testament survey text. In addition to first-rate scholarship, this textbook boasts focus boxes containing supplemental information, chapter summaries, study questions, an instructor’s manual and many other helpful features.

spared the best of the flocks and herds to sacrifice to the Lord. Again, Samuel confronted Saul, but all the prophet received from the king were excuses: • “The people spared the best of the sheep and oxen to sacrifice to the LORD your God; but the rest we have utterly destroyed” (15:15). • “I did obey the voice of the LORD, … but the people took some of the spoil” (15:20). Samuel’s stinging reply—“Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king” (15:23)—finally
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