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Lesson 9 · November 29, 1890

Desiring a King

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  1. 1.What did Samuel do when he was old? .
  2. 2.What kind of judges were his sons? .
  3. 3.What did this give the elders of Israel an excuse for doing? .
  4. 4.How did Samuel feel about the matter? .
  5. 5.What did the Lord tell Samuel to do? .
  6. 6.Whom did he say the people were rejecting?—
  7. 7.With whom did Samuel have the honor of sharing reproach? .
  8. 8.In yielding to the request of the elders, what was Samuel to do? .
  9. 9.What did he say their king would do to them? .
  10. 10.Did this recital deter the people from their purpose? .
  11. 11.What reason did they give for desiring a king? .
  12. 12.Was it in accordance with God's design that they should be like the nations around them? .
  13. 13.Was it to their detriment that the Lord wished them to be a peculiar people? ; .
  14. 14.What was to make them so high above other nations that the nations themselves would notice it? .
  15. 15.Then in desiring to be like the nations around them, what were they doing? Ans. Depriving themselves of their source of superior greatness, and putting themselves on a level with those nations.
  16. 16.Against what do the Scriptures give warning? .
  17. 17.What is better than putting confidence in princes? .
  18. 18.Upon whom is a curse pronounced? .
  19. 19.What blessing is pronounced upon the one who trusts in the Lord? .

Notes

The strength of Israel lay in that which made them different from other nations. When they became dissatisfied, and wanted to be "like other people," they were simply expressing a wish to be put on a level with them. But that was to make them much inferior to the nations around them; for the Israelites were but few in comparison with the other nations, and in a contest depending only on human strength, numbers would of course gain the victory. If it had not been that God did not cast off his people when they rejected him, the nation of Israel would soon have been blotted from existence.

Bible texts in this lesson

1 Samuel 8:1 · 1 Samuel 8:3 · 1 Samuel 8:4 · 1 Samuel 8:5 · 1 Samuel 8:6 · 1 Samuel 8:7 · 1 Samuel 8:8 · 1 Samuel 8:9 · 1 Samuel 8:10-18 · 1 Samuel 8:19 · 1 Samuel 8:20 · Deuteronomy 14:2 · Exodus 19:5 · Exodus 19:6 · Deuteronomy 26:18 · Deuteronomy 26:19 · Deuteronomy 4:5 · Deuteronomy 4:6 · Psalms 146:3 · Psalms 118:8 · Psalms 118:9 · Jeremiah 17:5 · Jeremiah 17:6 · Jeremiah 17:7 · Jeremiah 17:8

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