1 Samuel : looking on the heart

內容簡介

Part 1: A prophet from God's grace (1 Samuel 1-7) -- Cradle and kingdom (1:1-2:10) -- Judgment begins at the house of God (2:11-36) -- Prophets profit (3:1-4:1a) -- Rabbit-foot theology (4:1b-22) -- Arkeological discoveries (5:1-7:1) -- New mercies (7:2-17) -- Part 2: A king in God's place (1 Samuel 8-14) -- The king thing (8:1-22) -- Lost and found (9:1-10:16) -- A lost king? (10:17-27) -- A hopeful beginning (11:1-15) -- Covenant -- accusing and assuring (12:1-25) -- Tarnish on the crown (13:1-23) -- Sad success (14:1-52) Part 3: A man after God's heart (1 Samuel 15-31) -- Rejecting the chosen (15:1-35) -- Looking on the heart (16:1-23) -- Glory to God in the highest and on earth -- thud (17:1-58) -- The shadow of the Almighty (18:1-19:24) -- How do you spell security? (20:1-42) -- Desperation (21:1-22:5) -- Even now many Antichrists have come (22:6-23) -- The God who provides (23:1-29) -- This is the day! Or is it? (24:1-22) -- Preventive providence (25:1-44) -- The spear makes the point (26:1-25) -- What can a God-less text teach us? (27:1-28:2) -- And it was night (28:3-25) -- Accepting the Philistines as your personal savior (29:1-11) -- When the bottom drops out (30:1-31) -- The end? (31:1-13).