I know, I know, I’m skipping big, important chunks of 1
Samuel here. Hannah prayed, Samuel was
born, worked for Eli, heard God, became prophet. All caught up! It’s Saul time.
The beginning of this story is great, Saul starts out as a
stand-up guy (in fact, he stood a little too tall when he was trying to hide in
the supplies!) Things take a turn for
the worse later, but when Samuel first meets him, Saul seems like as good a king
as the next guy. He's humble (“Am I not a
Benjamite… and is not my clan the least of all the clans….?” 9:21),
hard-working (“Just then Saul was returning from the fields, behind his oxen…”
11:5), and a team player (“’This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who
does not follow Saul and Samuel’…” 11:7).
All this and he’s tall? Long live the King!
A little
poem, in honor of Israel’s first king:
Saul, Saul, this Benjamite was tall!
He saved some people from becoming Cyclops
And they decided he was tops!
"Be our king!" the Israelites cry,
"Without you to protect us, we'll surely die!"
But oh, how the mighty fall.
Their king went crazy and that was (s)all.
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