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People demand a king
1 Samuel 8
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EXO 19:5-6
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DEUT 17:14-15
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JDG 8:22-23
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PSA 44:4
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PSA 47:6-9
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ISA 43:15
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An Application
Samuel is perhaps the most famous, and therefore most sad, but certainly not the only Bible character whose children failed to live up to their parent's example. This is one of the saddest chapters in the Bible (of those not involving physical destruction/violence). Their rejection of God was quite explicit and bold. It's a testimony of God's patience (ROM 5:8). May we do better to be grateful.
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Compare Lot's daughters (GE 19:36), Esau's wives (GE 26:35), Eli's sons (1SA 2:12). / Later we'll read in 1SA 12:12 that the motivation behind the people in this chapter wasn't random, wasn't just that they had simple pride and wanted to self-govern apart from God, it was that there was a foreign invader on his way and the people didn't have any faith that God could or would rescue them. How quickly they forgot EX 14:14, 23:23, DT 1:30, 3:22, which is why DT 6:6-9 & 11:2 were there as warnings.
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