1 and 2 Samuel: An Introduction and Commentary (Long) (Biblia.com)

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The stories of Samuel, Saul and David are among the most memorable in the Old Testament. Yet the lives of these individuals are bound up in the larger story of God’s purpose for his people. V. Philips Long explores the meaning of the biblical history of Israel’s vital transition from a confederation of tribes to nationhood under a king. He shows how attending to the books of Samuel repays its...

prayer or oracular enquiry, for instance)57 but proceed immediately to propose a plan of their own: Let us bring the ark of the LORD’s covenant from Shiloh (v. 3). On the character and significance of the ark, see comment at 3:3 and also below. 4–5. The people waste no time in bringing from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim (cf. Exod. 25:17–22; Num. 7:89). The ark carried powerful associations. At a much later period, Hebrews 9:4 states that

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