1 SAMUEL WE have seen that the Book of Ruth occupies, in its purport, an intermediate place between the end of the period in which Israel was governed by God Himself, who interposed from time to time by means of judges, and the setting up of the king whom He selected for them. This period, alas, came to an end through the people’s failure, and their inability to make a right use, by faith, of their privileges. The contents of the Books of Samuel The Books of Samuel contain the account of the cessation
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