Word for the Week

Week beginning: 17th November, 2013

By James Brightwell | London

"Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD…"

1 Samuel 10:25 (ESV)

In the face of Israel's disobedience in asking for an earthly king, so that it could be like the other nations (1 Sam 8:19-20), the Lord gave it what it asked for in the form of Saul. Keeping the covenant with Abraham, He told his people how to stay