Sunday School Lesson

Samuel: God’s Prophet And Judge1 Samuel 7:3-11, 15-17I. Turn Your Heart to God (1 Samuel 7:3-4)Theologian Thomas Constable provided some degree of rationale as to the writer’s emphasis on the ark of the covenant that begins here in the text.Critical scholars have long argued that 1 Samuel 4:1 to 1 Samuel 7:1 and 2 Samuel 6 are the only remaining fragments of an older and longer ark narrative, which was a source document for the writer here.

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