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What does Ruth tell Naomi after Naomi told her to go back to Moab? 1:16
Where you go I will go. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God.
What was Hannah’s vow?
What evidence can you see that Hannah was not being selfish in her request?
1. That Lord will give her a son.
2. She offered the child to the Lord. She responds with joy to the Lord.
How did Israel’s praying change during the time of Samuel?
They shifted from asking God to deliver them alone to asking for a king.
What did Saul do that really convinced the people to make him king? (1 Sam. 11:14-15)
Saul led an attack, Helped Israel in victory, gave God the credit for the battle.
What happens to David when Samuel meets him?
How does God use David in his early life?
1. Samuel anoints David and the Holy Spirit rushes into David.
2. God uses David to take down Goliath.
List at least two acts of kindness that Boaz showed to Ruth.
List the two acts of kindness Ruth showed.
He offers Ruth protection, allows her to glean his field, provides water, provides food.
She goes with Naomi. She ask Boaz to marry her.
What in Hannah’s prayer suggests that she’s predicting the future?
She speaks of the anointed king, she says the Lord will judge the earth.
Explain why God was angry with Israel’s demand for a King.
It isn’t wrong to have a king but Israel had the wrong motivation for one.
Describe briefly what Saul did to the Amalekites- and what he failed to do.
Killed almost all the Amalekites- but spared their king and took their livestock.
How would you connect the story of David and Goliath to the whole story of the Bible?
1. David is a part of the promised line and God would redeem the world through Abraham’s line.
2. It leaves out God, We can make David seem like the hero over God, We can think we can conquer sin.
What makes Ruth’s faith significant in the Book of Ruth?
Even though she was a gentile she showed more faith than the Jews at the time.
What would Hannah’s son do in the future?
Her son was going to anoint King David.
Summarize the comfort and the warning in Samuel’s final speech to the nation.
God has plans for His covenant people
Why didn’t God just pick David and skip over Saul?
To show Israel what He valued in a leader was different from what they wanted in a king.
What part does David play in the big story of the Bible?
What is the point of the story of David?
1. King of Israel. God used David to preserve His people in the land.
2. The Lord’s power to save.
Explain the custom of the kinsman-redeemer.
A close relative of the deceased who married the widow if she had no sons. The widow would be provided for so the deceased name would continue and the wealth of the family could stay forever.
What does Hannah’s prayer hint at about the coming story of David?
There will be a tall, proud people who oppose the Lord and David will defeat them, not by his own power but through the Lord.
Serves as a transition between judges and kings
Who is Samuel
Why won’t Saul’s kingdom continue?
What kind of king was God looking for to replace Saul?
1. His disobedience.
2. A king seeking after God’s own heart.
What’s wrong with allegorizing, spiritualizing, or moralizing the stories of scripture- like the story of David and Goliath?
What event is the best comparison to the David and Goliath story?
1. It takes God out of the Story. You can miss the point of the story, it can lose its meaning, and you can make stuff up.
2. When Jesus Christ died on the cross to defeat sin and was resurrected from the dead.
1. She had great faith for a gentile
2. Ruth’s kinsman-redeemer
3. Ruth’s mother-in-law
1. Who is Ruth
2. Who is Boaz
3. Who is Naomi
First person in recorded history to say Messiah
Who is Hannah
A priest and a terrible leader.
Who is Eli
The King Israel wanted
Saul’s son and David’s friend.
1. Who is Saul
2. Who is Jonathan
David’s father and Ruth’s grandson
The anointed King of God’s people
A Philistine who opposed the Lord
1. Who is Jesse
2. Who is David
3. Who is Goliath