Naked Bible 456: 1 Samuel 11

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

1 Samuel 11 explores the inauguration of Saul’s reign as king of Israel. In the previous chapter, the prophet Samuel had given Saul several signs that his anointing was genuine and from the Lord. That validation ended with Samuel’s directive that Saul accompany him to Gilgal to renew the covenant. Saul failed to do this. In this chapter of 1 Samuel, we discover what Saul did instead of going to Gilgal. In one respect, the chapter records Saul’s lone real success as king with a victory over the Ammonites. But in another respect, it again sets the tone for Saul’s unfitness to be king. On a wider, more surprising note, this chapter also seems to reveal a connection back to the serpent of Genesis 3 as part of a motif that Israel’s kings were expected to be fulfillments of the promise of the seed of the woman overcoming the serpent.

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0:26.3	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast, episode 456, for Samuel 11, the layman, Trastrick
0:32.3	women, he's a scholar.
0:33.8	Dr. Michael Heiser, hey Mike, how are you?
0:37.0	Well, I think the better question is, how are you?
0:39.6	You had a pretty busy weekend, didn't you?
0:43.7	Yeah, a week ago.
0:45.0	I did.
0:46.0	My kids are playing basketball for their schools and we had eight games over three days.
0:51.4	So they both had two tournaments and regular season game followed by two tournaments.
0:56.8	So I've been busy, busy, busy playing basketball or watching basketball that is.
1:03.8	The good thing is my son, they won the consolation bracket.
1:08.1	They lost their first game, but they won the consolation.
1:11.6	And then my daughter, they won the championship and they're tournament.
1:15.0	So that was good.
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