person to identify himself by faith with past generations who experienced the Lord’s deliverance; the saving deeds of the Lord were firstly for you and secondly for your fathers. Each new generation entered into the covenant commitment, with its obligations and privileges, but every act of obedience, and every act of apostasy, had repercussions that influenced the future. In order to understand their own situation in relation to their covenant God, those of Saul’s generation needed to see how they