1 Samuel – Saul and David

Chapter 10

10:1 What happens? What does it all mean?

10:2 Put this into your own words. What do you know about the tribe of Benjamin (see 9:21)? What do you think about this?

10:3-8 Put this into your own words. What do you think about all this?

10:9-13 What happened? Put it all into your own words. What do you think about all that?

10:14-16 Put this into your own words. What do you think about that?

10:17-11:15 Make up and act out a short dramatic story about Saul becoming the king of Israel. It might be in 2 acts: 10:17-27; 11:1-15.

10:17-18a Put this into your own words. What do you learn about the history of the people of Israel? What do you think about what the people wanted? How are you like the people of Israel? How are you not like the people of Israel?

10:18b-24 Put this story into your own words. What did ‘the Lord’ (God) do in this story? What do you learn about Saul? What do you think about all that?

10:25-27 Put this into your own words. What did Samuel do? What did Saul do? Who else was in the story? What did they do? What do you think about the ‘other men’?