A Son to Me: An Exposition of 1 & 2 Samuel

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“There are three permanent Nazirites in the Bible: Samson, Samuel, and John the Baptist, and each of them was born to a barren woman. Samuel typifies the ministry of John: As Samuel prepared the people for the reign of David, so John turned the hearts of the fathers to the children and prepared a people for the coming of the Davidic King.” (Page 40)

“With respect to the current book, I am operating on the belief that to read Scripture typologically is to accept that the Bible’s interpretation of events provides a true and the most essential interpretation of the events it records.” (Page 12)

“David did not fight because his honor had been violated, but to vindicate the honor of the Lord.” (Page 97)

“Within these larger transitions, the main story has to do with the ‘crossing fates’ of Saul and David.⁵ Saul’s rise and fall is like an expanded retelling of the story of Adam, and if Saul was like the first Adam, David was a type of the Last Adam, called to replace the fallen king as the head of God’s people, persecuted without cause by his rival, waiting patiently until the Lord gave him the kingdom. This is not to say that David is perfect by any means, but David is a man after the Lord’s own heart, and foreshadows the work of his greater Son, Jesus.” (Page 27)

“Though Eli did not abuse the priestly office in the way that his sons did, he sinned by enjoying the fruit of his sons’ corruptions. He had become ‘very heavy’ from feasting on sacrificial food. ‘Heavy,’ interestingly, is from the same Hebrew word as ‘glory’ or ‘honor’ (‘heavy’ is kebed, and ‘glory’ is kabod). Eli is glorifying himself by fattening himself with the Lord’s food, instead of glorifying God by offering food to Him.” (Page 48)