1 Samuel: An Overview – Looking for a Leader • Simon Chaplin

1 Samuel: An Overview
Looking for a Leader

Introduction

1) The need for a leader

context: Judges

beginning: Samuel

the crisis: Samuel’s sons

2) Request for a king

part of God’s plan -Deuteronomy 17

request is for the wrong reasons -1 Samuel 8:19-2

3) Saul: the king they asked for

1 Samuel 10:24

1 Samuel 12:13-15

4) Saul: The king who fails

1 Samuel 15:14

5) David: The king after God’s own heart

1 Samuel 13:14

1 Samuel 16:7

6) Saul and David: the pursuit of the king

1 Samuel 26:8-9

7) Saul: the king is dead

Conclusion