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NEW TESTAMENT SEGMENT: Revelation 4-5

Verses: 25
Words: ~570

OLD TESTAMENT SEGMENT: 1 Samuel 11-12

Verses: 40
Words: ~1191

Wisdom SEGMENT: Proverbs 29:14-29

Verses: 16
Words: ~254

REFLECTION SEGMENT:

Israel asks for, and God gives them, a king. But what does Samuel pray?

Bible used for reading:

Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020).

Other sources consulted for today:

D. A. Carson, ed., NIV Biblical Theology Study Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2018).

David S. Dockery, ed., Holman Bible Handbook (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 1992).

Crossway Bibles, The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008).

Kendell H. Easley, Revelation, vol. 12, Holman New Testament Commentary (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1998).

Justin Jackson, “The Bows of the Mighty Are Broken: The ‘Fall’ of the Proud and the Exaltation of the Humble in 1 Samuel,” Themelios 46, no. 2 (2021): 290.

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