Michael Reads the Bible

So, to bring us up to date: After centuries of loose rulership by "Judges," the Israelites asked the religious leader Samuel to ap...

The story of David and Goliath, told in 1 Samuel 17, is remarkable in being exactly what I remembered from Sunday school. Young David is sen...

Saul does not seem to be working out as king of the Israelites. Remember Samuel's long list of terrible problems that will befall Israel...

So here we are, 1 Samuel 8, and our title character has already grown old. He faces the same problem that his mentor Eli did: his sons are n...

We pass now from Ruth into 1 Samuel, moving beyond the eight books that I had previously memorized the order of. Knowing nothing about the n...