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1 and 2 Samuel: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The stories of Samuel, Saul and David are among the most memorable in the Old Testament. Yet the lives of these individuals are wound up in the larger story of God’s purpose for his people. Looking beyond the well-known surface of these stories Joyce Baldwin explores the meaning of the biblical history of Israel’s vital transition from a confederation of tribes to nationhood under a king. Bible...

1. Samuel was still the young apprentice, learning from Eli and subject to him. Nothing indicated that the Lord was about to inaugurate a new era; indeed the word of the Lord was rare (Heb. yāqār, ‘highly valued’); times of greater blessing had evidently been known, when people had more readily received guidance from the Lord. As it was, Samuel had not had opportunity to experience the receiving either of an oracle or of a vision. 2–4. At that time … the Lord called is the sense; the description
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