Hello and welcome to Bible Stories. I'm your host Matt. Your other host Todd

well he's out to date and for a very good reason Todd and Hannah just welcomed their third

child into the world. I'll let Todd share with us next week all the fun details. Baby's name

engendered all those those great things but in the meantime rest assured that the baby is happy

and healthy and Hannah is doing great and the Havens family is in a wonderful place so we're so

excited for them congratulations Todd and Hannah and be praying for them be praying for this baby

that the baby would come to know Jesus really early and we're just so excited for the Havens

family. Well we are coming into the second part of our story about Israel's first king. You

will recall from last week that this is during the the very very very very end of the time of the

judges and this was a unique season in Israel's history because Israel didn't have a king they

didn't have a monarchy they had a theocracy meaning that God was in charge of what was happening in

Israel. Now he did use men and women to lead and to make decisions and what would happen is Israel

would be disobedient God would allow for oppressors to come in and cause trouble for the Jewish

people they would cry out they'd repent of their sinful ways God would hear their cries for help

and he would send them a judge this man or woman would lead they would make decisions they would

be a representative they would be an instrument of God's hand by which he would help the people.

Today's events the choosing of a king will this marks the the end of the season of the judges.

Why? Well Israel has asked for a king and God's going to choose someone. Now remember that we

got here the people are crying out for an actual king because the sons of the judge Samuel

and Samuel actually he instituted his sons as judges as well. These boys were being partial they

were seeking to advance their financial status and they were doing that through super corrupt

practice in the service of the Lord they were cheating people out of money they were favoring

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