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What kind of leaders should we follow? What kind of leaders should we be? And what does God have to do with it? These are some of the questions inherent in 1 Samuel, with its portrait of divine response to ancient Israel’s leadership crisis. That crisis was met through three men—Samuel, Saul, and David—in ways that forever changed the character of Israel’s leadership and clarified what God...

Now the young man Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the LORD and also with man. (1 Samuel 2:26) Now the young man Samuel was ministering to the LORD under Eli. (1 Samuel 3:1a) In the very setting of the degeneracy of Hophni and Phinehas and the failing competence of Eli, Samuel progressed from being the lad who served the Lord under the direct supervision of Eli “the priest” in 1 Samuel 2:11, to taking on the priestly garment himself in 1 Samuel 2:18, to personal growth “with
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