what is 1 samuel about in the bible?
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Samuel begins with the prophet Samuel's birth and God's call to him as a boy. The story of the Ark of the Covenant that follows tells of Israel's oppression by the Philistines, which brought about Samuel's anointing of Saul as Israel's first king. ... God then promised David and his successors an everlasting dynasty.
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The books of 1 and 2 Kings were written to show what happens when God is forgotten. Because David had a heart for the Lord, his son Solomon, was able to lead Israel into a glorious season. His reign was marked by wealth, prosperity, and wisdom. ... As a king, he should have read and meditated in God's Word.
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It comes from a Hebrew phrase that means “stone of help.” The name appears in the Biblical story told in the Book of 1 Samuel, in which the Hebrew prophet Samuel sets up a stone to commemorate the help that God had given the Israelites. ... Like many names found in the Bible, Ebenezer came to be used as a proper name.
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Jesus is first mentioned in the Bible in Matthew 1:1 and the Genealogy of Jesus is Matthew 1:1-17.
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After Samuel tells Saul that God has rejected him as king, David, a son of Jesse, from the tribe of Judah, enters the story: from this point on Saul's story is largely the account of his increasingly troubled relationship with David.
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Psalm 34 attributes its own authorship to David. The Psalm's sub-title, A Psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed, derives from when David was living with the Philistines, but the account of this event in 1 Samuel 21 refers to the king as Achish, not Abimelech.
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It appears in the Books of Samuel in two narratives: In the first narrative (1 Samuel 4:1-11), the Philistines defeat the Israelites, even though the Israelites brought the Ark of the Covenant onto the battlefield in hope of it bringing them a divinely assured victory.
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The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures. The Bible is generally considered to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans by Christians, Jews, Samaritans, Rastafari and others.
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['Joshua.', 'Judges.', 'Ruth.', 'Samuel, split in two in Christian Bibles: I Samuel. II Samuel.', 'Kings, split in two in Christian Bibles: I Kings. II Kings.', 'Chronicles, split in two in Christian Bibles: I Chronicles. II Chronicles.', 'Ezra (1 Esdras)', 'Nehemiah (2 Esdras)']
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The account of Saul's life comes from the Old Testament book of I Samuel. The son of Kish, a well-to-do member of the tribe of Benjamin, he was made king by the league of 12 Israelite tribes in a desperate effort to strengthen Hebrew resistance to the growing Philistine threat.
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Joab, (flourished 1000 bc), in the Old Testament (2 Samuel), a Jewish military commander under King David, who was his mother's brother. He led the commando party that captured Jerusalem for David and as a reward was appointed commander in chief of the army.
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Bible Gateway 1 Samuel 18 :: NIV. After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself. From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father's house. And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
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The woman of Tekoa is an unnamed figure in the Hebrew Bible. She appears in 2 Samuel 14, after Absalom has been banished following his murder of Amnon. ... Joab tells the woman to pretend to be mourning, and she tells a story to David to elicit his sympathy and obtain his favourable judgement.
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So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came upon David in power. Samuel then went to Ramah.
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The Philistine captivity of the Ark was an episode described in the biblical history of the Israelites, in which the Ark of the covenant was in the possession of the Philistines, who had captured it after defeating the Israelites in a battle at a location between Eben-ezer, where the Israelites encamped, and Aphek ( ...
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['Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.', 'Historical books: Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees.']
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David is first mentioned in 1 Samuel 16 and his story runs through to the end of 1 Chronicles 29. Some of his life will be covered twice, once in Kings and once in Chronicles.