June 8 – Before It Breaks

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in scripture and relevant
for today, June 8th, before it

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breaks, You’ve probably been
there.

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A small argument that started
over something ridiculous, Maybe

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a text that got misread, a
comment that was taken the wrong

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way, or a misunderstanding that
snowballed so fast you couldn’t

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even remember what it started
about.

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And suddenly what was a small
spark became a fire that burned

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everything around it.
Proverbs chapter 17 verse 14

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describes this so perfectly.
The beginning of strife is like

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letting out water.
So quit before the coral breaks

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out.
Think about a dam.

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You don’t need a massive
explosion to destroy a dam, you

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just need one small crack.
And once the water starts

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flowing through that crack, the
pressure builds until it’s

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unstoppable.
Conflict works the same way.

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When you let it flow unchecked,
it can destroy friendships,

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families, and trust that took
years to build.

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The wisdom here isn’t that you
never disagree with people.

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It’s that you recognize when a
disagreement is starting to

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crack the dam and you make the
choice to walk away, cool down,

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or speak peace before everything
floods.

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That’s not weakness.
That is emotional intelligence

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and spiritual maturity.
In Psalm 66, verse 16, the

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writer says Come and hear all
you who fear God, and I will

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tell what He has done for my
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That’s a beautiful contrast to
the conflict picture in

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Proverbs.
Instead of getting caught up in

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drama and arguments, this person
is focused on what God has done.

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Their energy isn’t going into
strife, it’s going into

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testimony.
When your focus is on what God

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has done for you, there’s less
room for pettiness and pride.

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And in first Samuel chapters 9
and 10 we see Saul being

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anointed as Israel’s first king.
First Samuel chapter 10 verse

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one records Samuel pouring oil
over his head and saying, has

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not the Lord anointed you to be
Prince over his people, Israel?

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Saul had a purpose.
He had a calling.

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He was set apart for something.
And that moment of anointing

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happened not because of his own
seeking.

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It happened because God moved.
Here’s the connection.

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You also have a purpose and a
calling.

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But living out that purpose
requires protecting the peace

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around you.
It requires choosing

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relationships over egos and
reconciliation over being right.

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Conflict that you could have
stopped but didn’t has a way of

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sidetracking you from the very
purpose God set you apart for.

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The most powerful thing you can
do today might be to walk away

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from a fight before it starts
and choose peace.

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Tell your story of what God has
done and live like someone who

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has a purpose worth protecting.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
calling us to live with peace

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and purpose.
Help us to recognize when

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conflict is about to break out
and give us the courage and

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humility to choose peace
instead.

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Let our energy go into sharing
what you’ve done in our lives

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rather than feeding drama.
Remind us that you have a plan

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for us and help us protect it in
Jesus name, Amen.

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Now I invite you to spend time
with God in today’s three-year

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Bible reading plan.
Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 14

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World English Bible The
beginning of strife is like

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breaching a dam.
Therefore, stop contention

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before quarreling breaks out.
Psalm Chapter 66 World English

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Bible Make a joyful shout to
God.

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All the earth sing to the glory
of his name.

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Offer glory and praise.
Tell God how awesome are your

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deeds.
Through the greatness of your

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power, your enemies submit
themselves to you.

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All the earth will worship you
and will sing to you.

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They will sing to your name.
Come and see God’s deeds.

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Awesome work on behalf of the
children of men.

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He turned the sea into dry land.
They went through the river on

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foot.
There we rejoiced in him.

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He rules by his might forever.
His eyes watch the nation’s.

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Don’t let the rebellious rise up
against him.

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Praise our God, you peoples make
the sound of his praise heard.

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Who preserves our life among the
living and doesn’t allow our

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feet to be moved for you.
God have tested us.

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You have refined us as silver is
refined.

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You brought us into prison.
You laid a burden on our backs.

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You allowed men to ride over our
heads.

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We went through fire and through
water, but you brought us to the

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place of abundance.
I will come into your temple

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with burnt offerings.
I will pay my vows to you, which

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my lips promised and my mouth
spoke when I was in distress.

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I will offer to you burnt
offerings of fat animals with

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the offering of Rams.
I will offer bulls with goats.

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Come and hear all you who fear
God.

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I will declare what He has done
for my soul.

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I cried to Him with my mouth.
He was extolled with my tongue.

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If I cherished sin in my heart,
the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

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But most certainly God has
listened.

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He has heard the voice of my
prayer.

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Blessed be God who has not
turned away my prayer nor His

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loving kindness from me.
First Samuel, chapters 9 to 10

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World English Bible Now there
was a man of Benjamin, whose

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name was.
Kish.

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The son of Abiel, the son of
Zerer, the son of Bicoret, the

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son of Aphia, the son of a
Benjamite, a mighty man of

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valor.
He had a son whose name was

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Saul, an impressive young man,
and there was not among the

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children of Israel a better
person than he.

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From his shoulders and upward he
was taller than any of the

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people.
The donkeys of Kish, Saul’s

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father, were lost.
Kish said to Saul his son.

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Now take one of the servants
with you and arise.

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Go look for the donkeys.
He passed through the Hill

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Country of Ephraim and passed
through the land of Shalisha,

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but they didn’t find them.
Then they passed through the

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land of Shalim, and they weren’t
there.

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Then he passed through the land
of the Benjamites, but they

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didn’t find them.
When they had come to the land

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of Zuff, Saul said to his
servant who was with him, Come,

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let’s return, lest my father
stop caring about the donkeys

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and be anxious for us.
The servant said to him, Behold,

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now there is a man of God in the
city, and he is a man who is

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held an honor.
All that he says surely happens.

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Now let’s go there, Perhaps you
can tell us which way to go.

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Then Saul said to his servant,
But behold, if we go, what

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should we bring the man?
For the bread is spent in our

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sacks, and there is not a
present to bring to the man of

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God.
What do we have?

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The servant answered Saul again,
and said, Behold, I have in my

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hand the 4th part of a shekel of
silver.

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I will give that to the man of
God to tell us our way.

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In earlier times in Israel, when
a man went to inquire of God, he

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said, Come, let’s go to the
seer, for he who is now called a

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prophet was before called a
seer.

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Then Saul said to his servant,
Well said, come, let’s go.

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So they went to the city where
the man of God was.

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As they went up the ascent to
the city, they found young

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maidens going out to draw water,
and said to them, Is the seer

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here?
They answered them and said.

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He is.
Behold, He is before you.

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Hurry now, for He has come today
into the city, for the people

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have a sacrifice today in the
high place.

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As soon as you have come into
the city, you will immediately

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find Him before He goes up to
the high place to eat.

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For the people will not eat
until He comes, because He

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blesses the sacrifice.
Afterwards, those who are

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invited eat.
Now.

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Therefore go up, for at this
time you will find Him.

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They went up to the city.
As they came within the city,

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behold, Samuel came out toward
them to go up to the high place.

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Now Yahweh had revealed to
Samuel a day before Saul came,

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saying, Tomorrow about this time
I will send you a man out of the

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land of Benjamin, and you shall
anoint him to be Prince over my

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people Israel.
He will save my people out of

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the hand of the Philistines, for
I have looked upon my people

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because their cry has come to
me.

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When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh
said to him, Behold the man of

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whom I spoke to you, he will
have authority over my people.

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Then Saul approached Samuel in
the gateway and said, Please

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tell me where the seer’s house
is.

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Samuel answered Saul and said, I
am the seer, Go up before me to

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the high place, for you are to
eat with me today.

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In the morning I will let you go
and will tell you all that is in

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your heart.
As for your donkeys who were

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lost three days ago, don’t set
your mind on them, for they have

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been found.
For whom is all that is

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desirable in Israel, Is it not
for you and for all your

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father’s house?
Saul answered, Am I not a

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Benjamite of the smallest of the
tribes of Israel, and my family

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the least of all the families of
the tribe of Benjamin?

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Why then do you speak to me like
this?

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Samuel took Saul and his servant
and brought them into the guest

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room, and made them sit in the
best place among those who were

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invited, who were about 30
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Samuel said to the cook, Bring
the portion which I gave you, of

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which I said to you, set it
aside.

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The cook took up the thigh and
that which was on it, and said

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it before Saul.
Samuel said, Behold, that which

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has been reserved, set it before
yourself and eat, because it has

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been kept for you for the
appointed time.

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For I said, I have invited the
people.

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So Saul ate with Samuel that
day.

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When they had come down from the
high place into the city, he

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talked with Saul on the House
stop.

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They arose early and about
Daybreak Samuel called to Saul

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on the House.
Stop saying Get up, that I may

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send you away.
Saul arose and they both went

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outside, he and Samuel together.
As they were going down at the

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end of the city, Samuel said to
Saul, Tell the servant to go on

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ahead of us.
He went ahead.

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Then Samuel said, But stand
still 1st, that I may cause you

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to hear God’s message.
Then Samuel took the vial of oil

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and poured it on his head and
kissed him and said, Hasn’t

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Yahweh anointed you to be Prince
over his inheritance?

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When you have departed from me
today?

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Then you will find two men by
Rachel’s tomb on the border of

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Benjamin at Zelzer.
They will tell you the donkeys

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which you went to look for have
been found.

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And behold, your father has
stopped caring about the donkeys

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and is anxious for you, saying,
What shall I do for my son?

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Then you will go on forward from
there, and you will come to the

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oak of Tabor.
Three men will meet you there,

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going up to God to Bethel, one
carrying three young goats and

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another carrying three loaves of
bread, and another carrying a

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container of wine.
They will greet you and give you

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2 loaves of bread, which you
shall receive from their hand.

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After that you will come to the
hill of God where the Garrison

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of the Philistines is, and it
will happen when you have come

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there to the city, that you will
meet a band of prophets coming

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down from the high place with a
loot, A tambourine, a pipe, and

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a harp before them, and they
will be prophesying.

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Then Yahweh’s Spirit will come
mightily on you, and you will

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prophecy with them, and will be
turned into another man.

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Let it be when these signs have
come to you, that you do what is

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appropriate for the occasion,
for God is with you.

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Go down ahead of me to Gilgal,
and behold, I will come down to

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you to offer burnt offerings and
to sacrifice sacrifices of peace

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offerings.
Wait seven days until I come to

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you and show you what you are to
do.

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It was so that when he had
turned his back to go from

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Samuel, God gave him another
heart.

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And all those signs happened
that day.

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When they came there to the
hill, behold, a band of prophets

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met him, and the Spirit of God
came mightily on him, and he

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prophesied among them.
When all who knew him before saw

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that, behold, he prophesied with
the prophets.

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Then the people said to one
another, What is this that has

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come to the son of Kish?
Is Saul also among the prophets?

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One of the same place answered,
Who is their father?

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Therefore it became a proverb,
Is Saul also among the prophets?

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When he had finished
prophesying, he came to the high

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place.
Saul’s uncle said to him and to

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his servant, Where did you go?
He said to seek the donkeys.

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When we saw that they were not
found, we came to Samuel.

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Saul’s uncle said, Please tell
me what Samuel said to you.

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Saul said to his uncle.
He told us plainly that the

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donkeys were found, But
concerning the matter of the

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Kingdom of which Samuel spoke,
he didn’t tell him.

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Samuel called the people
together to Yahweh, to Mizpah,

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and he said to the children of
Israel, Yahweh, the God of

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Israel says, I brought Israel up
out of Egypt, and I delivered

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you out of the hand of the
Egyptians and out of the hand of

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all the kingdoms that oppressed
you.

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But you have today rejected your
God, who himself saves you out

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of all your calamities and your
distresses, and you have said to

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him, No, set a king over us.
Now therefore present yourselves

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before Yahweh by your tribes and
by your thousands.

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So Samuel brought all the tribes
of Israel near, and the tribe of

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Benjamin was chosen.
He brought the tribe of Benjamin

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near by their families, and the
family of the match rights was

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chosen.
Then Saul the son of Kish was

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chosen.
But when they looked for him, he

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could not be found.
Therefore they asked of Yahweh

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Further, Is there yet a man to
come here?

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Yahweh answered, Behold, he has
hidden himself among the

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baggage.
They ran and got him there.

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When he stood among the people,
he was higher than any of the

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people from his shoulders and
upward.

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Samuel said to all the people,
Do you see him whom Yahweh has

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chosen, that there is no one
like him among all the people.

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All the people shouted and said,
Long live the king.

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Then Samuel told the people the
regulations of the Kingdom, and

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wrote it in a book and laid it
up before Yahweh.

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Samuel sent all the people away,
every man to his house.

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Saul also went to his house to
Jiba, and the army went with him

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whose hearts God had touched.
But certain worthless fellows

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said, How could this man save
us?

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They despised him and brought
him no present, but he held his

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peace.
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