Samuel
שְׁמוּאֵל · she.mu.el · H8050GΣαμουήλ · Samouēl · G4545“heard of God; asked of God” Hitchcock's 1869121 mentions in 7 books, most in 1 Samuel (109)
Who he was
Samuel was a prophet and the last judge of Israel before the establishment of the monarchy. He was born to Hannah, who had been barren, and dedicated to the Lord's service from birth (1Sa.1.11, 20). Samuel grew up in the tabernacle under the guidance of Eli the priest (1Sa.2.18, 21, 26). God called Samuel while he was still a boy, and he became a prophet (1Samuel 3). Samuel played a crucial role in Israel's transition from the period of the judges to the monarchy. He led Israel in a decisive victory over the Philistines at Mizpah (1 Samuel 7:5–14) and served as a judge over Israel (1 Samuel 7:15–17). When the people demanded a king, Samuel anointed Saul as the first king of Israel (1Samuel 8-10). However, when Saul disobeyed God, Samuel announced that God had rejected him as king (1Samuel 15). Samuel then anointed David as the next king (1 Samuel 16:1–13). Samuel continued to guide and counsel David, even when Saul pursued him (1 Samuel 19:18). After Samuel's death, he was buried in Ramah (1Sa.25.1; 28.3). He is remembered as a faithful prophet and judge who played a pivotal role in Israel's history (Psalm 1Sa.99.6; Jeremiah 15:1; Act.3.24; 13.20; Hebrews 11:32).
In 1 Chronicles 6:33 he is listed in the genealogy of the Levites, specifically in the line of Kohath, which was one of the three main divisions of the Levites (1Ch.6.1, 33). This Samuel is an ancestor of Heman, who was one of the chief musicians appointed by David to lead worship in the tabernacle (1 Chronicles 6:31–33). It is important to note that this Samuel is not the same person as the prophet and judge Samuel, who was also the son of an Elkanah (1 Samuel 1:20). The Samuel mentioned in 1 Chronicles 6:33 lived much earlier than the prophet Samuel and was part of the Levitical line that served in the tabernacle and temple worship.
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1 Samuel109 mentions
1 Samuel 1:20When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”1 Samuel 2:18But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.1 Samuel 2:21Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.1 Samuel 2:26The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.1 Samuel 3:1The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. Yahweh’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.1 Samuel 3:3and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in Yahweh’s temple where God’s ark was,1 Samuel 3:4Yahweh called Samuel. He said, “Here I am.”1 Samuel 3:6Yahweh called yet again, “Samuel!” Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” He answered, “I didn’t call, my son. Lie down again.”1 Samuel 3:7Now Samuel didn’t yet know Yahweh, neither was Yahweh’s word yet revealed to him.1 Samuel 3:8Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.1 Samuel 3:9Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down. It shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.1 Samuel 3:10Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak; for your servant hears.”1 Samuel 3:11Yahweh said to Samuel, “Behold, I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.1 Samuel 3:15Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of Yahweh’s house. Samuel was afraid to show Eli the vision.1 Samuel 3:16Then Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son!” He said, “Here I am.”1 Samuel 3:18Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”1 Samuel 3:19Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.1 Samuel 3:20All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.1 Samuel 3:21Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by Yahweh’s word.1 Samuel 4:1The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.1 Samuel 7:3Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your…1 Samuel 7:5Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”1 Samuel 7:6They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of…1 Samuel 7:8The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”1 Samuel 7:9Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel, and Yahweh answered him.1 Samuel 7:10As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines and confused…1 Samuel 7:12Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”1 Samuel 7:13So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. Yahweh’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.1 Samuel 7:15Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.1 Samuel 8:1When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.1 Samuel 8:4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.1 Samuel 8:6But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.1 Samuel 8:7Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.1 Samuel 8:10Samuel told all Yahweh’s words to the people who asked him for a king.1 Samuel 8:19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us,1 Samuel 8:21Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.1 Samuel 8:22Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”1 Samuel 9:14They went up to the city. As they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them to go up to the high place.1 Samuel 9:15Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,1 Samuel 9:17When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, “Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will have authority over my people.”1 Samuel 9:18Then Saul approached Samuel in the gateway, and said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”1 Samuel 9:19Samuel answered Saul and said, “I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you are to eat with me today. In the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is in your…1 Samuel 9:22Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them into the guest room, and made them sit in the best place among those who were invited, who were about thirty persons.1 Samuel 9:23Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Set it aside.’”1 Samuel 9:24The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, “Behold, that which has been reserved! Set it before yourself and eat; because it has been kept…1 Samuel 9:26They arose early; and about daybreak, Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, “Get up, that I may send you away.” Saul arose, and they both went outside, he and Samuel, together.1 Samuel 9:27As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” He went ahead, then Samuel said, “But stand still first, that I may cause you…1 Samuel 10:1Then Samuel took the vial of oil and poured it on his head, then kissed him and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?1 Samuel 10:9It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs happened that day.1 Samuel 10:14Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?” He said, “To seek the donkeys. When we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.”1 Samuel 10:15Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”1 Samuel 10:16Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys were found.” But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn’t tell him.1 Samuel 10:17Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;1 Samuel 10:20So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen.1 Samuel 10:24Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” All the people shouted and said, “Long live the king!”1 Samuel 10:25Then Samuel told the people the regulations of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book and laid it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.1 Samuel 11:7He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, then sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel…1 Samuel 11:12The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”1 Samuel 11:14Then Samuel said to the people, “Come! Let’s go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.”1 Samuel 12:1Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.
1 Chronicles6 mentions
1 Chronicles 6:28The sons of Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah.1 Chronicles 6:33These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,1 Chronicles 9:22All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their…1 Chronicles 11:3So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh. They anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by…1 Chronicles 26:28All that Samuel the seer, Saul the son of Kish, Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth and of…1 Chronicles 29:29Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,
Acts2 mentions
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Heard of God.
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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