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And I'm Tyler.

This is Book of Mormon Central's Come Follow Me Insights. Today, the book of First Samuel.

Now last week we covered chapters one, two, and three, so that's not part of today's

lesson but the rest of the book is there.

And the curriculum you you'll notice,

focuses on certain chapters and leaves out many of them, and we're going to skip most of them

as well. We're going to follow roughly what is in the Come Follow Me Manual. So, Taylor, how would

you classify the book of First Samuel? What is the 30,000 foot overview?

Kingship. Who is the king? This book is focused on how did Israel get a king?

Now it's interesting, if we turn to 2nd Nephi chapter 10, verse 14, God says this, very plainly, I the Lord, the king of heaven,

will be their king, and I will be a light unto them forever that hear my words.

So Jacob is living from the Book of Mormon hundreds of years after the time period of 1st

Samuel. But he probably understands what's going on in 1st Samuel. living from the Book of Mormon hundreds of years after the time period of 1 Samuel,

but he probably understands what's going on in 1st Samuel of how we'll see the Israelites

want a king, so they can be like all the other nations. So the narrative is setting up,

how do we get to a point where the people rejected the judges, like Samuel, and why are they

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