Ep 375 | 1 Samuel 8-16, Come Follow Me 2026 (June 8-14)
Talking Scripture
Mike Day & Bryce Dunford
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
(00:00) Israel wants to have a king like everyone else. Saul is chosen.
(07:41) Forms of unrighteous dominion.
(11:14) Saul was chosen as Israel’s first king for his goodness, but falls into unrighteous dominion.
(24:18) Jonathan, King Saul’s son, is victorious in battle but disobeys his father.
(27:38) King Saul builds altars. He disobeys Samuel’s specific instructions. To obey is better than to sacrifice.
(39:55) The Lord tells Samuel to find Jesse, as he is the father of the future king of Israel. This shepherd’s son is David, founder of the “House of David.” Three traditions of David’s ascent to the throne are given.
(41:53) Samuel is told by the Lord to not look upon David’s outward appearance. God sees the intent of our hearts, not just our actions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Talking Scripture, a podcast where we illustrate relevance and application |
| 0:08.0 | of the scriptures in Come Follow Me. |
| 0:10.1 | We also dive into the history and cultures of the text. |
| 0:13.4 | Thanks for taking the time to share and subscribe to this podcast. |
| 0:16.9 | For show notes, head over to our website, TalkingScripture.org. |
| 0:24.5 | Welcome. For show notes, head over to our website, talkingscripture.org. Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike. |
| 0:26.3 | And I'm Bryce. |
| 0:27.1 | And today we're going to be covering 1st Samuel chapters 8 to 16. |
| 0:31.5 | It would be nice if we could renumber these books. |
| 0:33.9 | First Samuel should be the first king. |
| 0:36.5 | Second Samuel is really the second king. And then |
| 0:39.3 | First Kings is really the story of the third king and then beyond. But this whole book is the story of |
| 0:45.3 | Israel's first king, King Saul. And we're going to learn a lot from King Saul. There's some marvelous |
| 0:53.2 | episodes here that are very applicable. |
| 0:56.4 | So with that in mind, go to chapter 8 of 1st Samuel. |
| 1:01.3 | The sons of Samuel are walking in the same path that Eli's sons walked in. |
| 1:06.1 | And it seems like the author of Samuel is trying to communicate this idea that because the person who should |
| 1:11.8 | rise up and be a leader isn't, we've got a problem. We've got a power vacuum. And so the Israelites |
| 1:17.4 | come to Samuel and say, we want to have a king. And the problem with that isn't that they want to |
| 1:23.5 | have a king. We've read in the book of Mormon that if you could have righteous kings, kings would be a great form of government. But because you can't always have a righteous king, |
| 1:31.5 | that's why we shouldn't have kings. However, the real problem here is the reason why they want a king. |
| 1:38.4 | And this is worth pausing a little bit and saying, this applies so many ways to our lives. And this is the beginning of the downfall |
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