Hey, this is Shelby and CJ.

We are journeying through the entire Bible in a year.

We're in 1st Samuel chapters 13 through 15.

So we just saw right before this that Samuel gave Israel and the kings of Israel an ultimatum.

He said, fear the Lord and things will go well, or don't feel fear the Lord and things will not go well.

And this is similar to some things we've seen throughout our time in the Old Testament so far.

What's going to happen after this, CJ?

Well, Saul started out good. So we probably can expect

things to go south a little bit, staying with the form of the Bible, and that's exactly what

happens. So immediately after Samuel gives this ultimatum, the Philistines threaten Israel.

But Samuel instructs Saul to wait for him, and he will come to him. Okay? And at that point,

Samuel will offer burnt offerings to God. But Saul becomes fearful and antsy and he decides to offer

the burnt offerings. So he goes directly against what Samuel instructs him to do because he is fearful. He's not trusting of the Lord. So this isn't fearing God. This is fearing man, right? This would be the opposite of what we would want to do. Yeah. So he basically goes, I mean, he doesn't uphold this ultimatum is what happens. Exactly. Exactly right. So Samuel essentially says you're a fool. You could have been king and things would have gone really well for you, but now I'm going to tear it from you. And this is our first key that, okay, Saul isn't always going to be around if this is our first time reading Samuel. And we can anticipate someone else who's going to come along. It's been given to a man after God's own heart, which as we'll see is referring to David, right?

Okay, so what happens next?

Because we're about to be introduced to some new people in this narrative.

Yep, exactly.

So we're battling the Philistines, and this guy named Jonathan comes in, and this is Saul's son.

And Jonathan becomes an important character because he ends up siding with David, his friend,

rather than Saul, his father, the king.

And Jonathan ends up helping secure a victory for Israel because he's a good warrior.

And the battle was raging, and Saul makes a rash vow, which as we know, when we think

rash vow, we should probably think Jephtha, who made a silly vow and ended up having to give up

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