The Sunday School Lesson Destiny of Kings Established by David McGee
Sep 20, 2020
Destiny of Kings Established (29:28)
Referenced Scriptures: 1 Samuel 8:4-22; 1 Samuel 9:1-27; 1 Samuel 10:1-25; 1 Samuel 16:1-13; 1 Chronicles 17:1-15; 2 Chronicles 1:1-6; 2 Chronicles 6:1-11; 2 Chronicles 9:1-8
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1 Samuel 8:4-22
4) Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;
5) and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don‘t walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
6) But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
7) Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
8) According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.
9) Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.
10) Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.
11) He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;
12) and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
13) He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14) He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
15) He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16) He will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
17) He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
18) You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
19) But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No: but we will have a king over us,
20) that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
21) Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
22) Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go you every man to his city.
1 Samuel 9:1-27
1) Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.
2) He had a son, whose name was Saul, a young man and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
3) The donkeys of Kish, Saul‘s father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys.
4) He passed through the hill-country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn‘t find them: then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they weren‘t there: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn‘t find them.
5) When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.
6) He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.
7) Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
8) The servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
9) (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he who is now called a Prophet was before called a Seer.)
10) Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.
11) As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?
12) They answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he is come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place:
13) as soon as you are come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he does bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat who are invited. Now therefore get you up; for at this time you shall find him.
14) They went up to the city; [and] as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.
15) Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,
16) Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked on my people, because their cry is come to me.
17) When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people.
18) Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, Please, where the seer‘s house is.
19) Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer; go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today: and in the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart.
20) As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don‘t set your mind on them; for they are found. For whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and for all your father‘s house?
21) Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you to me after this manner?
22) Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the guest-chamber, and made them sit in the best place among those who were invited, who were about thirty persons.
23) Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, Set it by you.
24) The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. [Samuel] said, Behold, that which has been reserved! set it before you and eat; because to the appointed time has it been kept for you, for I said, I have invited the people. So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
25) When they were come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
26) They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may send you away. Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
27) As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.
1 Samuel 10:1-25
1) Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, Isn‘t it that Yahweh has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?
2) When you are departed from me today, then you shall find two men by Rachel‘s tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will tell you, The donkeys which you went to seek are found; and, behold, your father has left off caring for the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
3) Then shall you go on forward from there, and you shall come to the oak of Tabor; and there shall meet you there three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
4) and they will Greet you, and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive of their hand.
5) After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall happen, when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:
6) and the Spirit of Yahweh will come mightily on you, and you shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man.
7) Let it be, when these signs are come to you, that you do as occasion shall serve you; for God is with you.
8) You shall go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings: seven days shall you wait, until I come to you, and show you what you shall do.
9) It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs happened that day.
10) When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them.
11) It happened, when all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
12) One of the same place answered, Who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?
13) When he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
14) Saul‘s uncle said to him and to his servant, Where went you? He said, To seek the donkeys; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.
15) Saul‘s uncle said, Tell me, Please, what Samuel said to you.
16) Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spoke, he didn‘t tell him.
17) Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;
18) and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
19) but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, [No], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.
20) So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
21) He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was taken: but when they sought him, he could not be found.
22) Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, Is there yet a man to come here? Yahweh answered, Behold, he has hid himself among the baggage.
23) They ran and fetched him there; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
24) Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king.
25) Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
1 Samuel 16:1-13
1) Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
2) Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh.
3) Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.
4) Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Come you peaceably?
5) He said, Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
6) It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, Surely Yahweh‘s anointed is before him.
7) But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don‘t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
8) Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
9) Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
10) Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.
11) Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he come here.
12) He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.
13) Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
1 Chronicles 17:1-15
1) It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [dwells] under curtains.
2) Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.
3) It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4) Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall not build me a house to dwell in:
5) for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tent [to another].
6) In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
7) Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel:
8) and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
9) I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first,
10) and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
11) It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12) He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
13) I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
14) but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever.
15) According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
2 Chronicles 1:1-6
1) Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
2) Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers‘ [houses].
3) So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in the wilderness.
4) But the ark of God had David brought up from Kiriath-jearim to [the place] that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
5) Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tent of Yahweh: and Solomon and the assembly sought to it.
6) Solomon went up there to the brazen altar before Yahweh, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.
2 Chronicles 6:1-11
1) Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
2) But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever.
3) The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.
4) He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,
5) Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:
6) but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
7) Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
8) But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:
9) nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
10) Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
11) There have I set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 9:1-8
1) When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was in her heart.
2) Solomon told her all her questions; and there was not anything hid from Solomon which he didn‘t tell her.
3) When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
4) and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, his cup bearers also, and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.
5) She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
6) However I didn‘t believe their words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me: you exceed the fame that I heard.
7) Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.
8) Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God: because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.
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