Craig Tucker
The Old Testament books of 1 and 2 Samuel are best understood together. The story moves from Israel worshipping God in a tent at Shiloh, to the temple promised and all but built; from Israel virtually a vassal of the Philistines and under threat from other nations, to the stability of the Davidic Empire; and from the unstable rule of the Judges, to the monarchy and the promise of an everlasting house. In short, the two books taken together move from apostasy, to the golden era of the Old Testament.
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