A Heart for God - A Devotional Study of 1 and 2 Samuel

First and Second Samuel trace the lives of three Jewish men in the eleventh century B.C.: Samuel, the last of the judges and the first of the prophets; Saul, the first of the kings, but rejected by God; and David, the beloved shepherd-king. Hannah, whose name means grace, “asked of the Lord” (the meaning of Samuel’s name) and received a male child who selflessly served the Lord’s people his entire life. Saul’s name means “asked for,” but he was not given in grace, but rather in God’s anger to te