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Alastair Roberts - How To Read The Bible Ep. 93
Good Faith Effort
The Tribe of Zeal
One way to read 1 Samuel 8 is that sort of the asking for a king is a sin and the punishment for asking it is that you get exactly what you ask for. You will think that he's going out ahead of you to fight your wars, by the end of the text, you're going out to fight his wars. And so there's a sense of the tragedy. Right. As you go through these stories, they are given to us not just as a bare record of the history, but given to us to help us to read history with wisdom"
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