Results for “Samuel”

• All
• Bible
• Encyclopedia 293

Articles 293, showing 20

• 1 Samuel 11Bible

  1 Samuel 11 recounts how Saul, recently chosen as king, wins his first victory by rescuing Jabesh-gilead from Nahash the Ammonite and is then made king again before all the people at Gilgal.

• 1 Samuel 12Bible

  First Samuel 12 records Samuel's farewell address before all Israel after Saul became king. Samuel has his integrity publicly affirmed, reviews Israel's history, reminds the people of their sin in asking for a king, and urges king and people alike to serve the LORD.

• 1 Samuel 9Bible

  1 Samuel 9 tells how Saul, the son of Kish the Benjamite, meets the seer Samuel while searching for lost donkeys and is designated, at the LORD's direction, as the leader of Israel.

• 1 Samuel 10Bible

  1 Samuel 10 recounts how Samuel privately anoints Saul and foretells three signs, after which Saul is publicly chosen as king before all the people at Mizpeh.

• 1 Samuel 15Bible

  1 Samuel 15 is the chapter in which King Saul, though commanded to utterly destroy the Amalekites, spares King Agag and the best of the livestock. Samuel rebukes him, declaring that "to obey is better than sacrifice," and announces his rejection as king.

• 1 Samuel 13Bible

  1 Samuel 13 is the chapter in which war with the Philistines begins early in Saul's reign. Failing to wait for Samuel at Gilgal, Saul offers the burnt offering himself, and Samuel declares that his kingdom will not continue.

• 1 Samuel 14Bible

  1 Samuel 14 recounts how Jonathan and his armor-bearer attack a Philistine garrison at Michmash, leading Israel to victory. It goes on to describe Saul's rash oath imposing a fast, which nearly costs Jonathan his life until the people rescue him, and closes with a record of Saul's wars and family.

• 1 Samuel 16Bible

  A chapter of 1 Samuel recounting how Samuel anoints David, the youngest son of Jesse, in Bethlehem, and how David comes to serve Saul, from whom the Spirit of the LORD has departed, by playing the harp.

• 1 Samuel 19Bible

  1 Samuel 19 recounts how Jonathan and Michal help David when Saul tries to kill him, and how the messengers Saul sends to seize David, who has fled to Samuel, and finally Saul himself, begin to prophesy.

• 1 Samuel 18Bible

  1 Samuel 18 recounts how Jonathan comes to love David after his victory over Goliath and makes a covenant with him; how Saul, seeing the people praise David, grows jealous and afraid of him and seeks to harm him; and how Saul ultimately gives his daughter Michal to David as his wife.

• 1 Samuel 17Bible

  1 Samuel 17 is the chapter in which Goliath, a Philistine champion, challenges Israel to single combat in the Valley of Elah, and the shepherd boy David strikes him down with a sling and a stone.

• 1 Samuel 20Bible

  1 Samuel 20 is the chapter in which Jonathan arranges an arrow signal to learn whether Saul intends to kill David and, once he learns Saul's intent, parts from David in tears.

• 1 Samuel 23Bible

  1 Samuel 23 is the chapter in which David, pursued by Saul, delivers Keilah from the Philistines, makes a covenant with Jonathan in the wilderness of Ziph, and narrowly escapes capture by Saul in the wilderness of Maon.

• 1 Samuel 22Bible

  1 Samuel 22 records how David, having fled from Saul, gathers a band of followers at the cave of Adullam, and how the priests of Nob, who had helped David, are killed at Saul's command by Doeg the Edomite.

• 1 Samuel 21Bible

  In this chapter David, fleeing from Saul, obtains the showbread and the sword of Goliath from Ahimelech the priest at Nob, then escapes danger by feigning madness before Achish, king of Gath.

• 1 Samuel 24Bible

  1 Samuel 24 tells how David, while being pursued by Saul, has an opportunity to kill Saul in a cave at En-gedi but instead cuts off only the skirt of his robe and lets him go. Saul acknowledges that David is more righteous than he.

• 1 Samuel 27Bible

  First Samuel 27 tells how David, fleeing Saul's pursuit, takes refuge with his six hundred men under Achish, the Philistine king of Gath. He receives Ziklag, stays in Philistine territory for a year and four months, raids the surrounding peoples, and deceives Achish.

• 1 Samuel 26Bible

  The chapter in which David, pursued by Saul, enters Saul's camp at night and has the opportunity to kill him, yet takes only the spear and the water jug and lets him live.

• 1 Samuel 25Bible

  1 Samuel 25 recounts the death of Samuel, the wealthy Nabal's insulting refusal of David's request, the intervention of Nabal's wife Abigail to avert David's vengeance, and Abigail's marriage to David after Nabal's death.

• 1 Samuel 28Bible

  1 Samuel 28 is the chapter in which Saul, receiving no answer from God before his decisive battle with the Philistines, seeks out the medium of Endor and asks her to bring up the dead Samuel, who foretells the deaths of Saul and his sons.