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Old Testament Kings A prophet is an orator or an orifice for God. A prophet communicates a direct message that God gives to him to the people that God has sent him to. Some prophets had written messages while some were just spoken. A king is a leader of a kingdom, who governs a kingdom’s people. The old testament of the holy bible majorly speaks of the kingdom of Israel and its history, kingship and prophesies. It speaks of different prophets a different periods in the books of 1st and 2nd Samuel and 1st and 2nd Kings. The leadership in Israel lands in the hands of Kings and prophets. The Old Testament sites a number of these prophets and kings, with scriptural evidence of their roles and relationships. The Old Testament depicts Samuel as a prophet and priest who is born to answer a prayer and fulfills a promise. He fulfills a promise as he is offered to serve God. Samuel brings Unity in Israel, when the people were leaving in segregation. The book of 1st Samuel 3: 19, 2:35 and 7:2-17 explains that he was a prophet, a priest and a judge that is chosen by God Himself. In 2nd Kings 2:3-7, God also chooses Samuel to ensure that kings serve according to God’s will, and later on, gives him the role of anointing Israel’s kings, the first two. Israel is also led by kings. God Chooses Saul to be the 1st king of Israel after the people of Israel demand for a king. They were impatient, and did not wait for God’s time, wanting a leader like other neighboring nations. Samuel plays his role as instructed by god and anoints Saul as first King of Israel, who rules for four decades. People accept and approve of him after he saves Jabesh Gilead, a city of Israel (9th, 10th, 11th chapters of 1st Samuel). Saul refuses to comply with God’s instructions; he spares a king, Agag, and property during war when god instructs total destruction. God denounces him as king. David is chosen by God as the second king of Israel to rule His people as a very young boy. Samuel anoints him
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