Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Samuel+009 Chapter Nine (ESV)   15 Now the day before Saul came, the Lord had revealed to Samuel: 16 “Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Samuel+008   Chapter Eight (ESV)   1 When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. 2 The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. 3 Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Samuel+007   Chapter Seven (ESV)   5 Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.” 6 So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord and fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Samuel+006   Chapter Six (ESV)   19 And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the Lord. He struck seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great blow. 20 Then the men of […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Samuel+005   Chapter Five (ESV)   1 When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 2 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. 3 And when the people of […]