• Part First. The Judgeship of Samuel. I. Sam. 1:1-12:25.
• Part Second. The Reign of Saul. I. Sam. 13:1-21:13.
• Review of First and Second Samuel.

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FIRST SAMUEL.

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PART FIRST.

THE JUDGESHIP OF SAMUEL.

i. 1-xii. 25.

§ I. THE BIRTH AND CONSECRATION OF SAMUEL. i. 1-ii. 11.

1. Elkanah and His Wives. i. 1-8.

• Meaning of Ramathaim-zophim. 1. [Ramathaim, dual of Ramah. Cf. 19. Zophim, people of Zuph.]
• Of what tribe and family? 1, cf. I. Chron. vi. 33-38.
• Why called an Ephraimite? 1.
• What kind of sacrifices? 4-7, cf. Lev. vii. 15-17.
• What effects of polygamy here seen? 5-8.
• Why go to Shiloh? 3, cf. Josh. xviii. 1.

2. Hannah Prays and Makes a Vow. 9-18.

• How give him to the Lord? 11.
• Why no razor? 11, cf. Num. vi. 18.
• Meaning of "daughter of Belial"? 16.
• Why "no more sad"? 18, cf. 17.
• Who was Eli? 3, 9; iv. 18.
• What "the temple of the Lord"? 9. [1]

3. The Child Born and Consecrated. 19-28.

• Meaning of the name? 20.
• Why only a yearly sacrifice? 21.
• Why three bullocks, and only one offered?
• Why the meal? and wine? 24, cf. Num. xxviii. 11-14.

4. Hannah's Hymn of Praise. ii. 1-11.

• Was she inspired?
• What king referred to in 10?
• What the child's age? and his ministry? 11, cf. ii. 18, 19, 24.
• What typical in Samuel?

§ II. WICKEDNESS OF ELI'S SONS. ii. 12-iv. 1.

1. Their Extortion. ii. 12-17.

• Why was the flesh seething? 13.
• What the point about the fat? 15, 16.
• Why abhor the offering? 17.

2. Elkanah and Hannah Rewarded. 18-21.

• Why an ephod? 18.

3. Eli Rebukes His Sons. 22-26.

• What women were these? 22, cf. Ex. xxxviii. 8.
• Distinction about sins? 25.
• Bearing of "because the Lord would slay them"?

4. Eli Rebuked for the Sins of His Sons. 27-36.

• Who meant by "man of God"? 27.
• Who the father? 27.
• Meaning of "kick ye at my sacrifice"? 29.
• How had he honored his sons above God? 29.
• Rule as to honoring men? 30.
• The penalty? 31, 34-36.

5. Eli Rebuked through Samuel. iii. 1-18. [2]

• In what sense "precious"? 1.
• What lamp, and what time of night? 3.
• Why sleep in the temple? 3.
• What doors of the house? 15.
• Character of Eli? 18.

6. Remarks About Samuel. iii. 19-iv. 1.

• How did all Israel learn that Samuel was to be a prophet? 20.
• Meaning of "from Dan ever to Beer-sheba"? 20.
• In what way did his word come to all Israel? iv. 1.

§ III. THE PHILISTINES DEFEAT ISRAEL AND CAPTURE THE
ARK. iv. 1-vii. 1.

1. The Battle and the Defeat. iv. 1-11.

• Where was Eben-ezer? 1, cf. vii. 12.
• Aphek? 1. [Aphek means, the fortress].
• Why attack the Philistines? 1, cf. Judg. xii. 1; xvi. 31.
• Why send for the ark? 3.
• Why the effect on the Philistines? 7.

2. The Effect on Eli. 12-18.

• Why such anxiety for the ark? 13, 18.
• Did his judgeship overlap that of Samson? 18, cf. Judg. xiii. 1; xvi. 31.
• Describe Shiloh. Lands of the Bible, 281.
• At what gate was Eli? 18, cf. 13, 14.

3. Effect on the Wife of Phinehas. 19-22.

• Meaning of Ichabod? 21.
• Its proverbial use?
• Lessons from Eli and his sons?

4. The Ark in the Temple of Dagon. v. 1-7.

• Why placed there?
• Who was Dagon?
• Why not tread the [3] threshold? 7, 4.

5. The Ark Plagues the Philistines. v. 8-12.

• Location of these cities?

6. The Ark Sent Back to Israel. vi. 1-16.

• How acquainted with the guilt offering? 3.
• Why the golden mice? 5, cf. 1, margin.
• Why a new cart? 7.
• Why heifers that were not broken? and why take their calves away? 7, cf. 9.
• What season of the year? 13.
• What kind of road from Ekron to Beth-shemesh? Lands of the Bible, 263.
• Who the Beth-shemites? Josh. xxi. 13-16.

7. Organization of the Philistines and Another Movement of
the Ark. vi. 17-vii. 1.

• What kind of government? 17, 18.
• Whence the fifty thousand men? 19.
• Why so great an offense? Num. i. 50, 51.
• Why to Kirjath-jearim? vii. 1.
• Lessons taught?

§ IV. THE PEOPLE REFORMED, AND THE PHILISTINES DRIVEN
OUT. vii. 2-17.

1. The Reformation. vii. 2-4.

• Connection of the twenty years? 2, cf. 3.
• Meaning of "lamented after the Lord"? 2.
• What the Baalim and Ashtaroth? 4.
• How did Samuel speak to all? 3.

2. A Penitent Assembly at Mizpah. 5, 6.

• Why pray for them? 5.
• Where was Mizpah? Lands of the Bible, 241.
• Why the water and the fasting? 6.
• In what way [4] did Samuel judge them there? 6.

3. The Philistines Attack and Are Routed. 7-14.

• Why the attack at that time? 7.
• Why depend so on Samuel? 8.
• Meaning of Eben-ezer? 12.
• Meaning of "hand of the Lord was against the Philistines"? 13.

4. Samuel's Circuit as Judge. 15-17.

• How old when he became judge? 2, cf. iii. 1.
• Why his home at Ramah? 17, cf. i. 19.
• Why not at Shiloh?
• Why an altar at Ramah? 17, cf. 2.

§ V. A KING IS DEMANDED AND SAUL IS ANOINTED. viii. 1-x. 16.

1. The Demand, and Its Cause. viii. 1-9.

• Why are Beer-sheba? 2.
• Why Samuel displeased? 6.
• Why was it rejecting God? 7.
• What is it to change God's church government?

2. The Evils of Monarchy Set Forth. 10-22.

• Why no reversal to be permitted? 18.
• What motive most prominent? 20.
• Why?

3. Saul Is Brought before Samuel. ix. 1-14.

• Where the land of Zuph? 5, cf. i. 1; vii. 17.
• Describe Ramah. Lands of the Bible, 238.
• Why propose to pay the man of God? 7, 8.

4. Saul Is Honored before the Elders. 15-24.

• Why had the feast been prepared? 16, 22.
• What of the question about the asses? 20.
• What Saul's estimate of himself? 21.
• Point about the reserved thigh? 23, 24.
• Samuel's design in [5] all this?

5. Saul Is Secretly Anointed. ix. 25-x. 1.

• Why the secrecy?

6. Saul Is Assured by Signs. x. 2-13.

• Where was Rachel's tomb? 2.
• Why going up to God at Beth-el? 3, cf. iv. 4.
• How yet a garrison of Philistines? 5, cf. vii. 13.
• Why go to Gilgal? and when? 8, cf. xiii. 4-14.
• Who the company of prophets? 5, 10.
• How the proverb applied? 12.

7. The Secret Kept. 14-16.

• Who was this uncle? xiv. 50.
• Why keep the secret from him?

§ VI. THE KINGDOM FULLY ESTABLISHED. x. 17-xii. 25.

1. Saul Is Publicly Chosen. x. 17-27.

• Why at Mizpah? 17.
• What the method? and why?
• Why did Saul hide? 22, cf. ix. 21.
• What the form of salutation? 24.
• What "the manner of the kingdom"? 25, cf. Deut. xvii. 14-20.
• How did he lay the book "up before the Lord"? 25.
• Where was Gibeah? Lands of the Bible, 237.
• Wisdom of holding his peace? 27.

2. Jabesh-gilead Rescued by Saul. xi. 1-13.

• Who "the Ammonite"? 1.
• How would it be a reproach on Israel? 2.
• Relation of Benjamin to Jabesh-gilead? 4, cf. Judg. xxi. 8-15.
• Why was Saul yet with his oxen? 5.
• Connection of the spirit of God with Saul's anger? 6.
• Why the pieces of oxen? [6] 7, cf. Judg. xix. 29, 30.
• Why the message to Nahash? 10.
• Why the victory so easy? 11.
• Saul's wisdom again. 12, 13.

3. The Kingdom Renewed. 14, 15.

• Why to Gilgal? and which way was it?
• In what sense renewed?
• Why sacrifices there? 15.

4. Samuel's Farewell Address. xii. 1-25.

• Samuel's personal appearance? 2; i. 11.
• His integrity as a judge? 3-5.
• What his argument in 9-12.
• Condition of future prosperity? 14, 15.
• Why the storm? and why its effect? 16-19.
• Why a sin to cease praying for them? 23.
• Can you trace in ix-xii two separate and conflicting accounts of Saul's being made king?

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PART SECOND.

THE REIGN OF SAUL.

xiii. 1-xxi. 13.

§ I. VICTORIES OVER THE PHILISTINES AND OTHER ENEMIES.
xiii. 1-xiv. 52.

1. War Provoked and the Cowardice of Israel. xiii. 1-7.

• What of Saul's age? 1, cf. margin.
• Purpose of the three thousand. 2.
• Why Jonathan's attack? 3.
• Why the people so alarmed? 6, 7, cf. 5.
• Why retreat to Gilgal? 7.

2. Saul Commits Sacrilege. 8-14.

• When the seven days appointed? 8, cf. x. 8.
• Purpose of the offering? 12.
• Why was it such a sin?
• Meaning of "man [7] after his own heart"? 14.

3. Saul at Geba, and the Country Ravaged by the Philistines. 15-22.

• Why did Samuel go to Gibeah? 15.
• Why did Saul return with so few? 15.
• What had become of the smiths? 19, cf. 17.
• How were Saul's men armed? 22.

4. A Bold Attack by Jonathan. xiv. 1-15.

• Why was Ahijah not at Shiloh? 3.
• What the advantage of the two crags to the two armies?
• Describe the place. Lands of the Bible, 236.
• What was Jonathan's reliance? 6.
• Why had he not told his father? 7.
• Why say "Come up," etc.? 12.
• Meaning of 14?
• Why the trembling and flight? 15, 16.

5. The Philistines Routed and Pursued. 16-31.

• Why call for the ark? 18, cf. margin. 3.
• Why say "Withdraw thine hand"? 19.
• Who the Hebrews with the Philistines? 21.
• Where was Beth-aven? 23, cf. Josh. vii. 2.
• Purpose of the curse? 24.
• Meaning of "eyes were enlightened"? 27, 29.
• Where was Aijalon? 31.
• Why the people so faint? 31.

6. The People Sin in Eating. 32-35.

• Why the stone? 33.
• Purpose of building the altar? 35.

7. Jonathan in Danger, but Saved by the People. 36-46.

• Why think that some one had sinned? 38, cf. 37.
• Why willing to slay Jonathan? 39, 44, cf. 24.
• How did the people rescue him? 45. [8]

8. Saul's Other Victories. 47, 48.

• Where are these countries?

9. Saul's Family. 49-51.

• Had he more than one wife?

10. Hostility of Philistines and Promotions by Saul. 52.

§ II. THE SLAUGHTER OF THE AMALEKITES. xv. 1-35.

1. Saul's Commission. 1-3.

• Whose quarrel to be avenged? 2.
• Propriety of such a command?

2. How the Commission Was Executed. 4-9.

• Who the Kenites? 6, cf. Judg. i. 16.
• Where Havilah and Shur? 7.

3. Samuel Sent to Rebuke Saul. 10-23.

• Why was Samuel so grieved? 11.
• Why the monument, and where Carmel? 12.
• Why to Gilgal? 12, cf. 21.
• What change in Saul?
• Why say he had obeyed God? 13, 20.
• What the exact nature of his sin?

4. Saul Repents. 24-31.

• His excuse? 24.
• Why say, "the Strength of Israel"? 29.

5. Samuel Slays Agag and Departs. 32-35.

• Meaning of Agag's remark? 32.
• Why kill him? 33.
• Why did Samuel visit Saul no more? 35.
• Why say, "the Lord repented"? 35, cf. 29. [9]

§ III. DAVID IS ANOINTED AND BROUGHT TO SAUL. xvi. 1-23.

1. Samuel Sent to Anoint a King. xvi. 1-5.

• Why afraid of Saul. 2.
• Why the elders alarmed? 4.
• How did they sanctify themselves? 5.

2. David Selected and Anointed. 6-13.

• Why was David absent? 11.
• To what sitting down is reference made? 11, cf. 5.
• In what way, the Spirit on David? 13.

3. Saul's Evil Spirit and David's Harp. 14-23.

• Meaning of the remark about the spirits?
• Was the evil spirit jealousy? 14.
• Why propose music as the remedy? 16.
• David's reputation? 18.
• How known as a man of valour and of war? 18, cf. xvii. 34, 35.
• Why the bread, wine and kid? 20.
• When did he become an armourbearer? 21, cf. xviii. 5.

§ IV. DAVID'S COMBAT WITH GOLIATH. xvii. 1-xviii. 5.

1. Positions of the Armies, and Goliath's Challenge. xvii. 1-11.

• Where the places named? 1-3; Lands of the Bible, 259.
• Goliath's height in feet? 4.
• Weight of his mail in pounds? 5. [A sheckel is a half-ounce.]
• Weight of the head of the spear? 7.

2. Further Account of David and the Family. 12-16.

• Why Jesse call an Ephrathite? 12, cf. Ruth, i. 2; Gen. xxv. 19.
• What need of this account? Cf. xvi. 5-12.
• Where was David living? 15.

3. David Is Sent into the Camp. 17-22.

• Why the corn, bread and cheese? 17, 18.
• Meaning of "place [10] of the wagons"? 20.
• Why the battle in array? 21.

4. He Accepts Goliath's Challenge. 23-27.

• How make his father's house free? 25.
• Why Eliab's rebuke? 28.
• Why David's words reported to Saul? 31.
• Why did Saul at last consent? 33-37.

5. Goliath Slain and the Philistines Routed. 38-54.

• Meaning of "have not proved them"? 39.
• Where was the brook? 40.
• Why ask "am I a dog"? 43.
• David's reliance and motive? 46, 47.
• Why did David run? 48.
• How far the pursuit? 52.
• When the head brought to Jerusalem? and in what tent the armour? 54.
• Correspondence of this account with the place? Lands of the Bible, 383.

6. Saul Inquires as to the Father of David. 55-58.

• Why he and Abner so ignorant of David? Cf. xvi. 16-19, 21.
• Could this be, if he had yet become Saul's armourbearer?

7. Jonathan's Love and David's Promotion. xviii. 1-5.

• Significance of the presents? 4.
• Why this effect on Jonathan?
• When did David remain permanently with Saul? 2, cf. xvii. 15.
• When did he become armourbearer? 5.
• Who meant by "Saul's servants"? 5.

§ V. SAUL'S JEALOUSY AND DAVID'S FLIGHT. xviii. 6-xx. 42.

1. Beginning of the Jealousy. xviii. 6-11.

• Point in the allusion to the kingdom? 8, cf. xv. 28.
• Meaning of "eyed David"? 9.
• How Did David escape the spear? 11. [11]

2. David's First Promotion. 12-16.

• Motive of this appointment? 13.
• Meaning of "went out and came in before them"? 16, cf. Num. xxvii. 17; II. Chron. i. 10.

3. Saul Lays Plots for the Death of David. 17-30.

• Why the promise not kept? 19.
• Why demand the foreskins? 25.
• General effect of these plots? 27, 30.

4. Jonathan Intercedes for David. xix. 1-7.

• Why did Saul yield so readily? 6.

5. Third Attempt to Kill David. 8-17.

• Why the spear in hand? 9.
• What the teraphim? 13.
• Was Michal's answer true? 17.
• Of what were pillows made then? 13.

6. David Protected by Samuel. 18-24.

• What was Naioth of Ramah? 19.
• What caused the prophesying? 20, 21, 23.
• Who the company of prophets? 20, cf. x. 5, 6, 10.
• In what sense naked? 24.
• Why the proverb twice? 24, cf. x. 12.

7. David Appeals to Jonathan. xx. 1-11.

• Why Jonathan's denial? 2, cf. xix. 6.
• Why should David be present at the new moon? 5.
• Was the statement about the family feast true? 6.

8. An Oath of Friendship and a Sign Agreed Upon. 12-23.

• Why go out in the field? 11.
• What Jonathan's expectation? and why? 14, 15.
• Meaning of "The Lord do so to Jonathan, and more also"? 13.

9. The Scene at the Feast. 24-34. [12]

• Why did Jonathan stand up? 25, cf. 34.
• Why think David unclean? 26.
• Why expect him at all when in such danger?
• Why Jonathan's fierce anger? 34.

10. The Signs Given, and the Friends Part. 35-42.

• Why did David show himself? 41.
• Show the superiority of Jonathan's friendship?

§ VI. DAVID OUTLAWED, AND HIS FRIENDS PERSECUTED.
xxi. 1-xxii. 23.

1. David Obtains Bread and a Sword from the Priest. xxi. 1-9.

• Where the tabernacle now? 1.
• Why say, "no man with thee"? 1, 4.
• Was it right for them to eat the bread? See Lev. xxiv. 9, cf. Matt. xii. 4.
• How excuse David's falsehood? 2.

2. He Seeks Refuge in Gath. 10-15.

• Why go to the old enemy?
• What was his danger? 12.
• Why call him "king of the land"? 11.

3. He Flees to Cave and Becomes Captain of a Band. xxii. 1, 2.

• Where was Adullam? 1; Lands of the Bible, 222.
• Why did his family come to him? 1.
• Why the debtors? 2, cf. Lev. xxv. 39, 47, 48; II. Ki. iv. 1.

4. He Provides for His Parents. 3-5.

• Why to the king of Moab? 3, 4, cf. Ruth, iv. 10-17.
• Why the prophet Gad with David? 5.
• An incident of this period. I. Chron. xi. 15-19.

5. Doeg Betrays and Kills the Priests. 6-23. [13]

• How was David discovered? 6.
• How in Gibeah, and in Ramah? 6.
• Why say, "ye Benjamites"? 7.
• Why charge them with treachery? 8.
• What was false in Doeg's charge? 10.
• Why an Edomite with Saul? 9, cf. xxi. 7.
• Why the refusal of the soldiers? 17.
• Of whose kindred were these eighty-five priests? 18, cf. ii. 31-34.
• How know that Doeg would tell? 22, cf. Ps. lii. 1-9.

§ VII. SAUL'S ATTEMPTS TO CAPTURE DAVID. xxiii. 1-xxvii. 12.

1. David Rescues Keilah from the Philistines. xxiii. 1-5.

• David's motive?
• Where was Keilah? See Josh. xv. 20-44.

2. Saul's First Attempt. 6-13.

• Was the oracle true?
• Why the increase of David's men? 13, cf. xxii. 2; xxiv. 22.

3. Jonathan and David Renew Their Covenant. 14-18.

• Why this?

4. The Ziphites Betray David, and Saul's Second Attempt. 19-29.

• Where is Ziph? Lands of the Bible, 255.
• Where was Maon? and what the Arabah? 24.
• Where is En-gedi? and what the strong holds? 29, Lands of the Bible, 252-254.
• David's poem on the Ziphites Ps. liv. 1-7.

5. Saul's Third Attempt. xxiv. 1-22.

• Meaning of "rocks of the wild goats"? 2.
• Why David caught in the cave? 3.
• Why was Saul spared? 6, 10.
• How did David dare to show himself? 8.
• Why say, "after a dead dog, after a [14] flea"? 14.
• Why did Saul weep? 16.
• Why conclude that David would be king? 20.
• Why the oath exacted? 21, 22.

6. The Death of Samuel. xxv. 1.

• Why all Israel together?
• Why buried in his house?

7. David is Insulted by Nabal. 2-13.

• Where Carmel and Maon? 2.
• Ground of the request? 5-8, cf. 15, 16.
• Point in the remark about servants? 10.
• What David's purpose? 13.

8. Abigail Is Warned, and Intercedes. 14-31.

• Why think that evil was determined? 17.
• Meaning of allusion to "the bundle of life" and to the sling? 29.

9. The Results to all Parties. 32-44.

• Why David so thankful? 33.
• Why Abigail so willing? 41.
• When did he take Ahinoam? 43.
• Why Michal given to another? 44.

10. Saul's Fourth Attempt. xxvi. 1-25.

• Why did David send spies this time? 4.
• Meaning of "place of the wagons"? 5.
• Why propose to go into the camp? 6.
• Why venture to talk? 8, 9, cf. 12.
• Why the rebuke of Abner? 15, 16.
• Why David's proposal? 19.

11. David Goes again to Achish. xxvii. 1-7.

• Why safer among the Philistines? 1, cf. 4.
• Why ask for a town? 5.
• Bearing of 6 on the date of this book?

12. A Raid upon Heathen Tribes. 8-12.

• His purpose?
• Why the deception? [15]

§ VIII. SAUL'S LAST WAR. xxviii. 1-xxxi. 13.

1. The Philistines Invade the Land. xxviii. 1-4.

• What the understanding between Achish and David? 1, 2.
• Point in the remark about Samuel and the wizards? 3.
• Where Shunem and Gilboa? 4, cf. Lands of the Bible, 300, 302.

2. Saul Resorts to a Witch. 5-25.

• Why was Saul so alarmed? 5, cf. 4.
• What God's ways of answering? 6.
• Why inquire for such a woman? 7.
• Where is En-dor? and how related to the two camps? 7, cf. Lands of the Bible, 300-304.
• Why disguise himself? 8.
• Why the woman's suspicion? 9, cf. Ex. xxii. 18; Deut. xviii. 10-12.
• How did she learn that it was Saul? 12.
• How know that it was Samuel? 14.
• In what sense disquieted? 15.
• Why name David as the successor? 17.
• How would Saul be with Samuel? 19.
• Why Saul's fast? 20.
• Why did Samuel appear?

3. Previous March of the Philistines, and Rejection of David. xxix. 1-11.

• Who was right in the dispute?

4. A Disaster at Ziklag. xxx. 1-6.

• Why this? Cf. xxvii. 8-12.
• Why blame David? 6.

5. Those Making the Raid Overtaken and Routed. 7-29.

• Why the two hundred so faint? 10, cf. xxix. 11, 4.

6. The Spoil Distributed. 21-31.

• When made a statute and ordinance? 25.
• Why some of the spoil sent to the elders of cities? 26-31, cf. 31. [16] 

7. The Battle, and the Death of Saul. xxxi. 1-7.

• Why wish the armourbearer to slay him? 4.
• General result of the battle? 7.
• Who was Abinadab? 2, cf. xiv. 49.

8. Disposal of the Bodies of Saul and His Sons. 8-13.

• Where was Beth-shan? xxxi. 10, cf. Lands of the Bible, 301.
• Why did the men of Jabesh-gilead rescue the bodies? 11, 12.
• Why burn them? 12 . [17]

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