1 Sam 1-8 - The king and I... srael...

The readings - Days 86 and 87 - 1 Samuel 1-8

If Judges is any indication, the fact that 1 Samuel starts with a man who is from the hill country in Ephraim is hardly the most optimistic sign... Hopefully this one turns out better.

A couple of interesting things about the opening chapters of 1Sam struck me over the course of this run-through.

The first is that I find it somewhat bizarre that people blindly throw out a phrase like "traditional Biblical interpretation of marriage" without, apparently, much of a fleshed-out idea of what that might mean. Samuel himself is the son of a second wife. Anyway... moving on.