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[[File:Saultearsamuel2.jpg|right|thumb|Samuel was there when the people rejected God and desired to have a [[ruler]]. He warned them in [[1 Samuel 8]] how this would [[degenerate]] society into something God would not [[hear]].  If we understand [[Deuteronomy 17]] we may see clearly where Saul went wrong. [[Samuel]] rebukes [[Saul]] because he engage in the [[sacrifice of fools]], which was the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] which was the [[covetous practices]] that is [[idolatry]]<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref> which provides the [[dainties]]<Ref name="massesnf">{{massesnf}}</Ref> that destroys [[liberty]] <Ref name="desliberty">{{desliberty}}</Ref> and degenerates<Ref name="leavenp">{{leavenp}}</Ref> the people into the [[bondage of Egypt]].]]
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Samuel is a figure in the Hebrew Bible who plays a key role in the narrative, in the transition from the period of the biblical judges to the institution of a kingdom under [[Saul]], and again in the transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In addition to his role in the Hebrew Scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in the New Testament, and in rabbinical literature. He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, written in the first century CE (AD).
 
Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah was a Leite who lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. According to [[1 Samuel 1]]:20, Hannah named Samuel to commemorate her prayer to God for a child. On one occasion Hannah went to the sanctuary and prayed for a child. In tears, she vowed that were she granted a child, she would dedicate him to God as a [[Nazirite]].
 
Eli, who was sitting at the foot of the doorpost in the sanctuary at Shiloh. Eli was the priest of Shiloh, and one of the last Israelite Judges after Samson. Eli blessed her and she returned home. Subsequently, Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to Samuel.
 
After the child was weaned, she left him in Eli's care where he began his training. From time to time she would come to visit her son. Samuel was eleven years old when he was "established as a prophet of the Lord" and "all Israel from Dan to Beersheba" became aware of his prophetic calling.
 
The Philistines were allowed to conquer the Israelites and oppress them for 20 years until Samuel led them to victory. Later the people asked him to appoint them a king in [[1 Samuel 8]].


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Samuel was there when the people rejected God and desired to have a ruler. He warned them in 1 Samuel 8 how this would degenerate society into something God would not hear. If we understand Deuteronomy 17 we may see clearly where Saul went wrong. Samuel rebukes Saul because he engage in the sacrifice of fools, which was the Corban of the Pharisees which was the covetous practices that is idolatry[1] which provides the dainties[2] that destroys liberty [3] and degenerates[4] the people into the bondage of Egypt.

Samuel

Samuel is a figure in the Hebrew Bible who plays a key role in the narrative, in the transition from the period of the biblical judges to the institution of a kingdom under Saul, and again in the transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In addition to his role in the Hebrew Scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in the New Testament, and in rabbinical literature. He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, written in the first century CE (AD).

Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah was a Leite who lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. According to 1 Samuel 1:20, Hannah named Samuel to commemorate her prayer to God for a child. On one occasion, Hannah went to the sanctuary and prayed for a child. In tears, she vowed that were she granted a child, she would dedicate him to God as a Nazirite.

Eli, who was sitting at the foot of the doorpost in the sanctuary at Shiloh. Eli was the priest of Shiloh, and one of the last Israelite Judges after Samson. Eli blessed her and she returned home. Subsequently, Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to Samuel.

After the child was weaned, she left him in Eli's care, where he began his training. From time to time she would come to visit her son. Samuel was eleven years old when he was "established as a prophet of the Lord" and "all Israel from Dan to Beersheba" became aware of his prophetic calling.

The Philistines were allowed to conquer the Israelites and oppress them for 20 years until Samuel led them to victory. Later, the people asked him to appoint them a king in 1 Samuel 8.

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  1. ↑ Covetousness is idolatry
    Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
    Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
    1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
  2. ↑ "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." Polybius 150 years before Christ.
  3. ↑ Destroyers of liberty
    "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) This would include Julius Caesar and eventually Augustus Caesar which is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” This was a major theme of the Bible:
    There were tables of welfare which were both snares and a traps as David and Paul stated and Peter warned would make us merchandise and curse children. Proverbs 23 told us not to not eat the "dainties" offered at those tables of Rulers and Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10 we cannot eat of those tables and the table of the Lord. We are not to consent to their covetous systems of One purse or Corban which makes the word of God to none effect.
    We know when the masses become accustomed to those benefits of legal charity which are the rewards of unrighteousness provided by benefactors who exercise authority and the Fathers of the earth through the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and curse children as a surety for debt.
  4. ↑ Bread of oppression
    Matthew 16:6 "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees... 11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake [it] not to you concerning daily bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how that he bade [them] not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
    Mark 8:15 "And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and [of] the leaven of Herod."
    Matthew 16:11 "How is it that ye do not understand that I spake [it] not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?"
    Mark 8:15 "And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod."
    Luke 12:1 "In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."
    Jesus and John the Baptist opposed the leaven of Herod, the Pharisees and of the Sadducees because they misinterpreted the way of Moses and the LORD. They collected the resources for their tables of welfare, their social safety net of free bread and care for the needy of society through forced offerings. Peter, Paul, David, and the prophets have been warned us that such covetous practices were setting a snare and a trap. Herod and the Pharisees had set up a system of legal charity rather than fervent charity which always makes the word of God to none effect so that Christ would say the kingdom of God shall be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits. We should know that their system "degenerates" the "masses" until they become "perfect savages". Legal charity and its benefits and dainties provided through men who exercise authority are the wages of unrighteousness and the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and will curse children.
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