1 Samuel-Outline

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1 Samuel 1: Samuel Is Born to Hannah and Elkanah

  1. Elkanah, a Levite, having two wives, worships yearly at Shiloh
  2. He cherishes Hannah, though barren, and provoked by Peninnah
  3. Hannah in grief prays for a child
  4. Eli first rebuking her, afterwards blesses her
  5. Hannah, having born Samuel, stays at home till he is weaned
  6. She presents him, according to her vow, to the Lord

1 Samuel 2: Hannah’s Prayer; Eli’s Sons; Samuel’s Childhood

  1. Hannah’s song in thankfulness
  2. The sin of Eli’s sons
  3. Samuel’s ministry
  4. by Eli’s blessing Hannah is more fruitful
  5. Eli reproves his sons
  6. A prophecy against Eli’s house

1 Samuel 3: Samuel’s Vision of the Fall of Eli’s House

  1. How the word of the Lord was first revealed to Samuel
  2. God tells Samuel the destruction of Eli’s house
  3. Samuel, though loath, tells Eli the vision
  4. Samuel grows in credit

1 Samuel 4: Philistines Take the Ark; Death of Eli

  1. The Israelites are overcome by the Philistines at Ebenezer
  2. They fetch the ark unto the terror of the Philistines
  3. They are smitten again, the ark taken, and Hophni and Phinehas are slain
  4. Eli at the news, falling backward, breaks his neck
  5. Phinehas’s wife, discouraged in her travail with Ichabod, dies

1 Samuel 5: Philistines Smitten while Possessing the Ark

  1. The Philistines having brought the ark into Ashdod, set it in the house Dagon
  2. Dagon is smitten down and cut and cut in pieces,
  3. and they of Ashdod smitten with tumors
  4. So God deals with them of Gath, when it was brought thither
  5. and so with them of Ekron, when it was brought thither

1 Samuel 6: Philistines Return the Ark to Israel

  1. After seven months the Philistines take counsel how to send back the ark
  2. They bring it on a new cart with an offering unto Beth Shemesh
  3. The people are smitten for looking into the ark
  4. They send to them of Kiriath Jearim to fetch it

1 Samuel 7: Samuel Subdues the Philistines

  1. They of Kiriath Jearim bring the ark to Abinadab, and sanctify Eleazar as guard
  2. After twenty years,
  3. the Israelites, by Samuel’s means, solemnly repent at Mizpeh
  4. While Samuel prays and sacrifices,
  5. the Lord thwarts the Philistines by thunder at Ebenezer
  6. The Philistines are subdued
  7. Samuel judges Israel

1 Samuel 8: Israelites Disregard Samuel’s Warning and Demand a King

  1. By occasion of the ill government of Samuel’s sons, the Israelites ask a king
  2. Samuel praying in grief is comforted by God
  3. He tells the manner of a king
  4. God wills Samuel to yield unto the importunity of the people

1 Samuel 9: Saul Anointed by Samuel

  1. Saul despairing to find his father’s donkeys
  2. by the counsel of his servant
  3. and direction of young maidens
  4. according to God’s revelation
  5. comes to Samuel
  6. Samuel entertains Saul at the feast
  7. Samuel, after secret communication, brings Saul on his way

 

1 Samuel 10: Saul becomes King

  1. Samuel anoints Saul
  2. He confirms him by prediction of three signs
  3. Saul’s heart is changed, and he prophesies
  4. He conceals the matter of the kingdom from his uncle
  5. Saul is chosen at Mizpeh by lot
  6. The different affections of his subjects

1 Samuel 11: Saul Rescues Jabesh from the Ammonites; Saul Confirmed as King

  1. Nahash offers them of Jabesh Gilead a reproachful condition
  2. They send messengers, and are delivered by Saul
  3. Saul thereby is confirmed, and his kingdom renewed

1 Samuel 12: Samuel testifies to Israel; God sends Thunder and Israel Repents

  1. Samuel testifies his integrity
  2. He reproves the people of ingratitude
  3. He terrifies them with thunder in harvest time
  4. he comforts them in God’s mercy

1 Samuel 13: War with the Philistines

  1. Saul’s select band
  2. He calls the Hebrews to Gilgal against the Philistines
  3. The Philistines’ great army
  4. The distress of the Israelites
  5. Saul, weary of staying for Samuel, sacrifices
  6. Samuel reproves him
  7. The three raiding parties of the Philistines
  8. The policy of the Philistines, to allow no blacksmith in Israel

1 Samuel 14: Jonathan’s Miraculous Victory; Saul’s Foolish Order; Jonathan Disobeys

  1. Jonathan goes and miraculously smites the Philistine’s garrison
  2. A divine terror makes them beat themselves
  3. Saul, not staying the priest’s answer, sets on them
  4. The captivated Hebrews, and the hidden Israelites, join against them.
  5. Saul’s unadvised adjuration hinders the victory
  6. He restrains the people from eating blood
  7. He builds an altar
  8. Jonathan, taken by lot, is save by the people
  9. Saul’s victories, strength, and family

1 Samuel 15: Saul’s Disobedience and Samuel’s Rebuke

  1. Samuel sends Saul to destroy Amalek
  2. Saul favors the Kenites
  3. He spares Agag and the best of the spoil
  4. Samuel denounces unto Saul God’s rejection of him for his disobedience
  5. Saul’s humiliation
  6. Samuel kills Agag
  7. Samuel and Saul part

1 Samuel 16: Samuel Goes to Bethlehem and Anoints David

  1. Samuel sent by God, under pretense of a sacrifice, comes to Bethlehem
  2. His human judgment is reproved
  3. He anoints David
  4. Saul sends for David to quiet his evil spirit

1 Samuel 17: David and Goliath

  1. The armies of the Israelites and Philistines being ready to battle
  2. Goliath challenges a combat
  3. David, sent by his father to visit his brothers, takes the challenge
  4. Eliab chides him
  5. He is brought to Saul
  6. shows the reason of his confidence
  7. and slays the giant
  8. Saul takes notice of David

1 Samuel 18: Jonathan’s Friendship with David; Saul’s Jealousy

  1. Jonathan befriends David
  2. Saul envies his praise
  3. seeks to kill him in his fury
  4. fears him for his good success
  5. offers him his daughters for snare
  6. David persuaded to be the king’s son-in-law,
  7. gives two hundred foreskins of the Philistines for Michal’s dowry
  8. Saul’s hatred and David’s glory increase

1 Samuel 19: David Protected from Saul

  1. Elkanah, a Levite, having two wives, worships yearly at Shiloh
  2. He cherishes Hannah, though barren, and provoked by Peninnah
  3. Hannah in grief prays for a child
  4. Eli first rebuking her, afterwards blesses her
  5. Hannah, having born Samuel, stays at home till he is weaned
  6. She presents him, according to her vow, to the Lord

1 Samuel 20: David and Jonathan’s Covenant

  1. David consults with Jonathan for his safety
  2. Jonathan and David renew their covenant by oath
  3. Jonathan’s token to David
  4. Saul, missing David, seeks to kill Jonathan
  5. Jonathan affectionately takes his leave of David

1 Samuel 21: David Takes the Consecrated Bread

  1. David at Nob obtains Ahimelech’s hallowed bread
  2. Doeg is present
  3. David takes Goliath’s sword
  4. David at Gath feigns himself insane

1 Samuel 22: Saul Slays the Priests of Nob

  1. Companies resort unto David at Adullam
  2. At Mizpeh he commends his parents unto the king of Moab
  3. Admonished by Gad, he comes to Hareth,
  4. Saul going to pursue him, complains of his servants’ unfaithfulness
  5. Doeg accuses Ahimelech
  6. Saul commands to kill the priests
  7. The footmen refusing, Doeg executes it
  8. Abiathar escaping, brings David the news

1 Samuel 23: David Saves Keilah, Flees from Saul

  1. David, enquiring of the Lord by Abiathar, rescues Keilah
  2. God showing him the coming of Saul, and the treachery of the Keilites,
  3. he escapes from Keilah
  4. In Ziph Jonathan comes and comforts him
  5. The Ziphites discover him to Saul
  6. At Maon he is rescued from Saul by the invasion of the Philistines
  7. He dwells at En Gedi

1 Samuel 24: David Spares Saul’s Life

  1. David, in a cave at En Gedi, spares his life
  2. He shows thereby his innocence,
  3. Saul, acknowledging his fault, takes an oath of David, and departs.

1 Samuel 25: Samuel Dies; David Marries Abigail

  1. Samuel dies
  2. David in Paran sends to Nabal
  3. Provoked by Nabal’s rudeness, he minds to destroy him
  4. Abigail understanding thereof
  5. takes a present
  6. and by her wisdom
  7. pacifies David
  8. Nabal hearing thereof, dies
  9. David takes Abigail and Ahinoam to be his wives
  10. Michal is given to Phalti

1 Samuel 26: David Spares Saul a Second Time

  1. Saul, by the discovery of the Ziphites, comes to Hachilah against David
  2. David coming into the trench keeps Abishai from killing Saul,
  3. but takes his spear and jug
  4. David reproves Abner
  5. and exhorts Saul
  6. Saul acknowledges his sin

1 Samuel 27: David Flees to the Philistines

  1. Saul, hearing David to be in Gath, seeks no more for him
  2. David begs Ziklag of Achish
  3. He, invading other countries, persuades Achish he fought against Judah.

1 Samuel 28: Saul and the Witch of Endor

  1. Achish puts confidence in David
  2. Saul having destroyed the witches
  3. and now in his fear forsaken of God
  4. has recourse to a witch
  5. who, encouraged by Saul, raises up Samuel
  6. Saul hearing his ruin, faints
  7. The woman and his servants refresh him with meat

 

1 Samuel 29: Achish Sends David Away

  1. David marching with the Philistines
  2. is disallowed by their princes
  3. Achish dismisses him, with commendations of his fidelity

 

1 Samuel 30: David Destroys the Amalekites and Divides the Spoils

  1. The Amalekites raid Ziklag
  2. David asking counsel, is encouraged by God to pursue them
  3. By the means of a received Egyptian he is brought to the enemies,
  4. and recovers all the spoil
  5. David’s law to divide the spoil equally
  6. He sends presents to his friends

 

1 Samuel 31: Saul and His Sons Killed

  1. Saul, having lost his army, and his sons slain,
  2. he and his armor bearer kill themselves.
  3. The Philistines possess the forsaken towns of the Israelites
  4. They triumph over the dead bodies
  5. They of Jabesh Gilead recovering the dead bodies by night,
  6. burn them at Jabesh,
  7. and mournfully bury their bodies.
But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. (Hebrews 13:16)

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