![]() ![]() Isn't that what leaders are supposed to do? He dare not go into battle without seeking the Lord's favour. Saul was told only to wait for seven days. Six hundred men, "hiding in caves and quaking with fear" are all that remain against 10,000. Mere months earlier he was an obscure farm lad whose biggest concern in life was to find his father's errant donkeys.Īs he waits for Samuel to perform the ritual sacrifices, the meagre army he has assembled is melting away. Saul has not asked to be king and is thrust summarily into the role. The Philistines have massed their powerful army to put down this popular upstart. And no one understands this better than Samuel.Īt the time when Samuel delays his coming, Saul is barely 30, facing his first military crisis. But the emergence of royalty requires the extinction of the judges. ![]() So Samuel, having delivered his best dyspeptic diatribe on the evils of a monarchy, finds a shy but robust youth from the least of the tribes and anoints him as Israel's first king. But Samuel must still face the truth that the people have found his leadership to be inadequate. It is tempting to default quickly to the spiritual symbolism of their request-that Israel was doing nothing less than rejecting God as their king. They have turned aside for dishonest gain and perverted justice" (8:5). Their reason? "Because you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. The people however have a different idea. And when he grew old, he appointed his sons to take his place. He was revered as a wise, impartial judge, riding an established circuit at his own expense. For as long as Samuel lived, the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines (7:13). Samuel begins his own ministry with a military victory over the Philistines. It is a reference to Samuel, whose birth story and early days of temple service confirm his special status with God. And just so that the reader will not miss the hard truth about Eli, Samuel's first vision from God is to confirm the chilling verdict that Eli's failings as a father are beyond the pale of sacrificial atonement.Ī new and faithful priest is promised who will do what is in God's heart and whose household will be firmly established (2:35). The priestly household of Eli, the one remaining, quivering holy voice, was about to be forever extinguished-as ordered by God, no less-because the sons of Eli were wicked and he could not control them. Israel is so oppressed that even the Ark of Covenant has fallen into the hands of the Philistines. ![]() Yet his story starts with the familiar cadence of other stories from the time of the Judges. Samuel, best remembered as Israel's kingmaker, anointed both Saul and David. To climb above the disappointment of our own truncated dreams and still help others to succeed: It is a tall order to ask of anyone. Teeny’s Dad."Saul waited seven days, the time set by Samuel but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and Saul's men began to scatter… So Saul made the burnt offerings and just as he had finished, Samuel arrived. At this time, the trainees hadn’t revealed their names and were using nicknames: Mr. Pledis said the main reason they started SEVENTEEN TV was so that Pledis could see which boys the fans enjoyed seeing and those trainees would eventually make up SEVENTEEN. In January, Pledis explained that who we saw in 17TV weren’t official members and were still training to get into the group. In December, Pledis decided they would make a pre-debut show, SEVENTEEN TV, to help the members gain fans before their debut, but it was also a show that fans and watchers would sort of judge the members as well. Seventeen at the time was said to have 17 members who would be divided into 3 sub-units that would promote in Korea, China, Japan. Pledis Entertainment announced that they would debut a group called Seventeen in the early months of 2013. ![]()
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