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<div2 id="iSam.i" n="i" next="iSam.ii" prev="iSam" progress="24.37%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="iSam.i-p0.1">First Samuel</h2>
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<hr/>
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<div class="Center" id="iSam.i-p0.3">
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<p id="iSam.i-p1"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="iSam.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="iSam.i-p1.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="iSam.i-p1.3">OF THE FIRST BOOK OF</h5>
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<h2 id="iSam.i-p1.4">S A M U E L.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="iSam.i-p2">This book, and that which follows it, bear
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the name of <i>Samuel</i> in the title, not because he was the
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penman of them (except of so much of them as fell within his own
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time, to the twenty-fifth chapter of the first book, in which we
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have an account of his death), but because the first book begins
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with a large account of him, his birth and childhood, his life and
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government; and the rest of these two volumes that are denominated
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from him contains the history of the reigns of <i>Saul</i> and
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<i>David,</i> who were both anointed by him. And, because the
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history of these two kings takes up the greatest part of these
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books, the Vulgar Latin calls them the <i>First</i> and <i>Second
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Books of the Kings,</i> and the two that follow the <i>Third</i>
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and <i>Fourth,</i> which the titles in our English Bibles take
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notice of with an <i>alias: otherwise called the First Book of the
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Kings,</i> &c. The LXX. calls them the first and second Book
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<i>of the Kingdoms.</i> It is needless to contend about it, but
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there is no occasion to vary from the Hebrew verity. These two
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books contain the history of the last two of the judges, <i>Eli</i>
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and <i>Samuel,</i> who were not, as the rest, men of war, but
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priests (and so much of them is an appendix to the book of Judges),
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and of the first two of the kings, <i>Saul</i> and <i>David,</i>
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and so much of them is an entrance upon the history of the kings.
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They contain a considerable part of the sacred history, are
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sometimes referred to in the New Testament, and often in the titles
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of David's Psalms, which, if placed in their order, would fall in
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these books. It is uncertain who was the penman of them; it is
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probable that Samuel wrote the history of his own time, and that,
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after him, some of the prophets that were with David (Nathan as
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likely as any) continued it. This first book gives us a full
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account of Eli's fall and Samuel's rise and good government,
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<scripRef id="iSam.i-p2.1" osisRef="Bible:1Sam.1.1-1Sam.8.22" parsed="|1Sam|1|1|8|22" passage="1Sa 1:1-8:22"><i>ch.</i> i.-viii.</scripRef> Of
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Samuel's resignation of the government and Saul's advancement and
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mal-administration, <scripRef id="iSam.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:1Sam.9.1-1Sam.15.35" parsed="|1Sam|9|1|15|35" passage="1Sa 9:1-15:35"><i>ch.</i>
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ix.-xv.</scripRef> The choice of David, his struggles with Saul,
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Saul's ruin at last, and the opening of the way for David to the
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throne, <scripRef id="iSam.i-p2.3" osisRef="Bible:1Sam.16.1-1Sam.31.13" parsed="|1Sam|16|1|31|13" passage="1Sa 16:1-31:13"><i>ch.</i>
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xvi.-xxxi.</scripRef> And these things are written for our
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learning.</p>
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</div2>
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