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Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 57 This chapter is based on 1 Samuel 3 to 7. Another warning was to be given to Eli’s house. God could not communicate with the high priest and his sons; their sins, like a thick cloud, had shut out the presence of His Holy Spirit. But in the midst of evil…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 56 This chapter is based on 1 Samuel 2:12-36. Eli was priest and judge in Israel. He held the highest and most responsible positions among the people of God. As a man divinely chosen for the sacred duties of the priesthood, and set over the land as the highest judicial authority, he…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 55 This chapter is based on 1 Samuel 1; 2:1-11. Elkanah, a Levite of Mount Ephraim, was a man of wealth and influence, and one who loved and feared the Lord. His wife, Hannah, was a woman of fervent piety. Gentle and unassuming, her character was marked with deep earnestness and a…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 54 This chapter is based on Judges 13 to 16. Amid the widespread apostasy the faithful worshipers of God continued to plead with Him for the deliverance of Israel. Though there was apparently no response, though year after year the power of the oppressor continued to rest more heavily upon the land,…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 53 This chapter is based on Judges 6 to 8; 10. After the settlement in Canaan the tribes made no vigorous effort to complete the conquest of the land. Satisfied with the territory already gained, their zeal soon flagged, and the war was discontinued. “When Israel was strong, … they put the…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 52 This chapter is based on Leviticus 23. There were three annual assemblies of all Israel for worship at the sanctuary. Exodus 23:14-16. Shiloh was for a time the place of these gatherings; but Jerusalem afterward became the center of the nation’s worship, and here the tribes convened for the solemn feasts.…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 51 To promote the assembling of the people for religious service, as well as to provide for the poor, a second tithe of all the increase was required. Concerning the first tithe, the Lord had declared, “I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel.” Numbers 18:21. But in…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 50 In the Hebrew economy one tenth of the income of the people was set apart to support the public worship of God. Thus Moses declared to Israel: “All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 49 This chapter is based on Joshua 23 and 24. The wars and conquest ended, Joshua had withdrawn to the peaceful retirement of his home at Timnath-serah. “And it came to pass, a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua…

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 48 This chapter is based on Joshua 10:40-43; 11; 14-22. The victory at Beth-horon was speedily followed by the conquest of southern Canaan. “Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale…. And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time,…