Comparing 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel And 1 Kings

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The books of 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel and 1 Kings introduce us to a society that have faith in God (the Lord of hosts), people believe that by being obedient to the will of God they could be protected from the enemy, their houses would be prosperous and their families would be free of diseases. Their men would be protected during war and the victory would be always on their side. However if they do not follow God’s plans then they will be in chaos. From the beginning of 1 Samuel to 1 Kings, we can see how the people who did not obey the commands of the Lord fell into crisis, their family members die and the men were defeated in war.
On 1 Samuel 2: 29 – 36, it is interesting that the Lord punished Eli even though he was not committing sin. We can see that in this society you have to judge everyone equally even if they are part of their own family. We know that Eli closed his ears to people’s complains about his sons Hophni and Phinebas. They were being greedy by taking people’s sacrifices and offers to God for their own. Just because of his sons, God announced Eli that there will not be more generation of his and that he will be humiliated. We can see in different chapters of the three books …show more content…

Women are choose by the man and are submissive. They do accept her husband to have more than one wife. We can say that the women represent more a reproductive and sexual symbol, which we can see in 1 Samuel 1:2-3 and 1King 1:4. But women are also very important for the family and respected by their son we can see this in 1 Samuel 1:5 and 1 Kings 2:19. The interesting thing about women in this society was that the women were respected and treated good only during times when the Lord was protecting the people, but when God was not too happy with what people were doing or when the King was not following the will of the Lord,c we can see that women were mistreated as we can see in 2 Samuel13:

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