1 Samuel – Saul and David

Chapter 9

9:1-10:16 Make up and act out a short dramatic story. It would be about the lost donkeys and when Saul met Samuel. Your dramatic story might be in three acts: 9:1-13; 9:14-25; 9:25-10:16.

9:1-2 What do you learn about Saul? What causes you to believe that Saul was a real person?

9:3-5 Put this story into your own words. What do you think about Saul, from this story?

9:6-13 Put this story into your own words. What do you think about this?

9:14-17 What do you learn about Saul? What do you learn about Samuel? What do you learn about God? What do you learn about the Israelites? What do you learn about the Philistines?

9:18-20 Put this into your own words. What do you think about all that?

9:21 What do you know about the tribe of Benjamin (4:12-17; 9:1-2a, 3-4, 15-16, 21)? What do you learn here about Saul? What do you think about all that?

9:22-25 Put this into your own words. What parts of the story make you think that this meal was an act of worship (9:12-13)?

9:26-27 Put this into your own words. Why might the writer have told us these details?