Saul
Who anointed Saul as king?
Samuel
Jesse
What did he build for God?
The Temple
The northern kingdom was called...
This man was initially afraid to become king.
Saul
How long did Saul reign as king?
40 years.
Promised this type of kingdom
An eternal kingdom/one that would last forever
This is what he asked for when God said he could have anything.
Wisdom to govern the people
Rehoboam
This empire conquered the Northern Kingdom
Assyria
The women said, "Saul has slain his thousands and David his tens of thousands."
He was called, "a man..."
"...after God's own heart."
He wrote over 3,000 of these.
Proverbs
This group eventually conquered the southern kingdom
Babylonians
3 Prophets who ministered to the Southern Kingdom
Obadiah, Joel, Micah, Isaiah, Nahum, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Habakkuk
Why did Samuel tell Saul, "Obedience is greater than sacrifice"?
Saul kept the animals to offer as a sacrifice instead of destroying everything in the town.
To celebrate the bringing back of this to Jerusalem, David dances before the Lord in clothes that were viewed as undergarments
The Ark of the Covenant
This is what happened because of his sins.
The kingdom split.
All of the kings of Israel did...
...evil in the sight of the Lord.
3 Prophets who ministered to the Northern Kingdom
This was one of Saul's major sins--he visited one of these.
A medium
This is when David pens the words, "Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me" (Ps. 51:10).
When Nathan the prophet illuminates David's sin of having Bathsheba's husband killed so David could marry her.
Why did marrying so many wives cause a problem for Solomon?
He worshipped the false gods of his foreign wives.
This is how Rehoboam made his decision about whether or not to lighten the load of the people.
He asked the older, wiser men, who all said he should lighten the loads of the people, but then he asked his young friends and they said he should make their loads heavier. He went with the advice of his friends, which caused the kingdom to split.
These were the 3 purposes of the prophets.
1. Speaking on behalf of God, they pointed out the people's disobedience.
2. They exhorted people to repent.
3. They warned of coming judgement.