Wednesday Bible Study: Job qualifications

1 Samuel 10 has Saul made the first King of Israel. I must tell you that apart from the book we are reading now, there is no evidence that a Kingdom of Israel even existed at the time of these purported events, let alone that there was a king named Saul. But if he did exist, the lack of his footprints in the sands of time is perhaps not so surprising since he does not go on to found a dynasty. God seems to have chosen him because he is exceptionally tall and good looking. God ' s judgment was evidently faulty however. He will turn out to be fairly ineffectual, although the reason he is finally deposed is an extremely bad one.Samuel ' s instructions to him and the strange, seemingly random experiences he is made to go through before his coronation perhaps have some allegorical or referential meaning, but I can ' t tell you what it is. I make a couple of comments along the way. BTW the footnote draws attention to an interpolation in the Septuagint. As I have said, this translation is based on the Masoretic text.10 Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul ’s head and kissed him, saying, “Has not theLord anointed you ruler over his inheritance?[a]2 When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel ’s tomb, at Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you set out to look for have been found. And now your father has stopped thinking about them and is worried about you. He is asking, “What shall I do about my...
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