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And we're Shmoop in the bible

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One samuel hey there and welcome to another exciting edition

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of look how far your degree in religious studies will [Man graduating]

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take you I'm your host Cecil B. DeShmoop

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but you can call me hindsight Twenty twenty today We're

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looking at one samuel the book of samuel Surprisingly enough

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begins with samuel Yeah samuel's parents elkana and hannah are [Samuels parents appear]

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desperate for a son so desperate in fact that hannah

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promises god that if he gives her a son she'll

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give him up in service to the lord Well god [God answering e-mails]

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knows a good deal when he sees one seriously you

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should see him with a pennysaver So he agrees And

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butter bing bada boom nine months later along comes little

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samuel which frankly if i had been his father i

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would have passed my name down Elkana yeah that one

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needs to make a comeback Don't you think taking notes

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kim and kanye Well anyway elkana and hannah spend some

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quality time with little samuel before given him up to

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live with a priest named eli Seriously where do we [Samuels parents drop him off at priests house]

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submit nominations for parents of the year But one night

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the now parentless samuel Wakes up to a voice calling

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his name He goes to Eli and its like hey

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you like did you say something And allies like No

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i was doing that weird thing where my eyes are

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closed What the kids these days call it sleeping Samuel

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returns to bet but he hears the voice the second

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time he rushes back to ely and allies like this

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thing you're doing you know waking me up you've got [Samuel wakes Eli up]

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to stop and he send samuel back to bed Well

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samuel here is the voice a third time wait see

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like in an eye presumably furious eli tells him that

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it's probably got and yet samuel should go ahead and

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just like answer him you live in it solves a [Eli sleeping]

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lot on his door and motion controlled lasers and finally

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get some sleep Daniel meanwhile decides to answer god he's

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hoping it's something casual like an invite to a summer [God cooking a barbecue]

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barbecue But god has other plans God tell samuel to

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relay the message that no one any lies household would

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live to grow old and both his sons would die

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at the same time so not really the same as

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a fun summer barbecue Samuel isn't super king on relaying

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the message but god can be so persistent sometimes we'll [Samuel running and lightning strikes]

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eventually tells eli who takes it like a champ saying

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that god's will is not for anyone to change eli

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stoic before it was cool these things come to pass

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and samuel is decreed a true prophet of god I

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mean well there was some stuff that led to that

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but get dinner plans at five so work with me

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here enter the philistine they're at war with israel and [Philistine soldiers appear]

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pretty much stayed that way throughout the book All right

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in the meantime samuels prophesized ing and stuff Yeah seriously

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dinner at five Anyway story really gets going when the [Cecils calendar appears]

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israel lights demanded king to unite them God isn't super

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pleased by this but tell samuel to go ahead and [God telling Samuel to go ahead on the phone]

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give the people what they want He's got dinner plans

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at five to so he can't be bothered enter saw

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god tell samuel about sol and end up meeting at

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a sacrifice What isn't that how you normally meet people

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All right well anyway samuel surprise Anoint sol by pouring

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oil over his head and kissing him on the forehead

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Kids don't try that At home trust me i did

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it for scholarly purposes and my cat's still won't talk [Cat with kiss mark appears]

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to me All right we'll solve does a pretty good

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job for a while but eventually he slips up and

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boys at a doozy while fighting the philistine Saul gets

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a little worried and sends for samuel to make an

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offering to god Samuel arrives late and sounds like whatever

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man I'll do it myself samuels like not cool bro

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and tells him that god is going to take his

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kingdom away from him Well god command samuel to go

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find a new king because this one is so passe [God presses smite button]

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So well you know samuel goes and does a traditional

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surprise anointing thing this time on david the youngest son

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of jesse right afterwards they head back to find that

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those darn philistine hanging around again The philistine zehr

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still pretty into fighting stuff And they found themselves a

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ringer a lion But goliath was huge like we're talking [Goliath appears]

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six foot nine r nine foot six depending on what

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translation used goliath It challenges the israel lights to come

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forward with a champion to face him for forty days

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Well mostly israel lights Air like we're good will pass

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Finally david volunteers collides laughs when david comes out with [David appears and Goliath laughs]

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just a sling in a staff because like seriously goliath

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is huge Well after some trash talk life takes off

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his helmet and charges David channels his inner clint eastwood

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and unloads his sling bringing goliath and becoming a pretty

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popular guy among the israel likes And if i had

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a biblical wheaties well he'd be on the cover the

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one person he is not super popular with his grace

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king saul Well the next few chapters basically deal with

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salt trying to kill david on a variety of ways [Anvil lands on David]

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and david escaping in kicking philistine but oh and my

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favorite part david married saul's daughter cal burn Yeah well

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salt chases david around scooby doo style for quite some

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time And finally in chapter twenty five we learned that

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samuel has died Wait for you to get a tissue

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there The philistines and his realize fight again because apparently [Philistines and Israelites fighting]

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they don't have many hobbies This time things don't go

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well for saw his son die in saul's Gravely wounded

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It all tells his armor bearer to kill him But

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he's too afraid to Take king's life So saul has [Saul stabs himself]

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to stab himself even back then if you wanted something

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done right you had to do it yourself and that's

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Pretty much the end of this book Samuel's dead saul

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is dead and the philistine czar rejoicing Don't worry though

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Like all good things and quite a few bad things

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there will definitely be a sequel No spoilers though You'll

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just have to learn about it the old fashioned way [Woman looks at smart phone]

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