God makes a promise to kill Eli's family, when he came to Samuel one night. The Lord called to samuel two times, and Eli realized it was the Lord calling Samuel, so he told him "when you hear your name again, say Speak, your servant is here." And it was so. The Lord came telling Samuel that because of Eli and his not disciplining his sons, who were scoundrels and blaspheming God, that he would kill the entire line of Elis. Family. Hannah prayed to the Lord for a baby, and the Lord remembered one day, when Elkanah had laid with her, and brought for Samuel. Before going on the annual trip, Hannah waited for Samuel to be weaned, then left him there afterwards with Eli the priest. Samuel, woke up the next morning and remember what the Lord had said, and Eli calls Samuel to him. Eli says "The Lord strike you dead if you hold anything back from me", and Samuel told him that his family would be killed. Eli replies "Let him do what is best." During the war of the Philistines and the Israelites, 30,000 where slain, and the Philistines took the Ark of God, for themselves, placing it in Ashdod in the temple of Dagon, only to come in the next morning and seeing the statue on its face fallen over. The next morning after that, his hands were broken off near the temple door. Then plagues of tumors started coming upon the people and they had to get rid of the Ark. When Eli found out the ark had been taken, and heard the messenger from the battlefield had said his sons Hopni and Phinnas also had died. He fell over off of his chair on the gate next to him breaking his neck. The wife of one of the sons, heard the news of the her father, and her husband, she went in to childbirth right then, and named the child "Where is the Glory", as she passed away, Ichbod was his name, a baby boy.
Wild ride in Samuel. The choices of the people are amazing in this story, of history.
When capturing the ark of God, it was passed around to five towns before the Philistines decided, what will we do with this? Bring it back to Israel? They went to their people at the time (Advisors I guess); and they said send two calves that just had been born, make a cart, and make 5 gold tumors, and 5 gold rats, and if the cows go to Beth-mesha, we know that it was the hand of the Lord that caused these plagues. They followed the cows and it entered into to Beth-mesha, and the people rejoiced, however some of the people opened and looked into the Ark, and God struck 70 people dead then, and the people mourned.
At one point during another episode of war, Samuel prayed on behalf of the people, and God sent a thunderous voice which caused the israelites to be confused, and the Israel armies took over and gained some territory back for themselves. However, the people still desired to have a King, and when they consulted Samuel about this due, he told them they would have a bad king rule over them. He consulted God about this and said "they dont want me to be king over them, ever since they left egypt with my hand guiding the way, they want a king over them do as they say."
Wild ride in Samuel. The choices of the people are amazing in this story, of history.
When capturing the ark of God, it was passed around to five towns before the Philistines decided, what will we do with this? Bring it back to Israel? They went to their people at the time (Advisors I guess); and they said send two calves that just had been born, make a cart, and make 5 gold tumors, and 5 gold rats, and if the cows go to Beth-mesha, we know that it was the hand of the Lord that caused these plagues. They followed the cows and it entered into to Beth-mesha, and the people rejoiced, however some of the people opened and looked into the Ark, and God struck 70 people dead then, and the people mourned.
At one point during another episode of war, Samuel prayed on behalf of the people, and God sent a thunderous voice which caused the israelites to be confused, and the Israel armies took over and gained some territory back for themselves. However, the people still desired to have a King, and when they consulted Samuel about this due, he told them they would have a bad king rule over them. He consulted God about this and said "they dont want me to be king over them, ever since they left egypt with my hand guiding the way, they want a king over them do as they say."
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