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More for kids June 19, 2012

Some more chants and outlines of the Old Testament. The books of Judges and 1-2 Samuel narrate the transition from the Mosaic to the Davidic covenants, from the age of priests to the age of kings, from the age of the ox to the age of the lion. As so often in the Bible:

God tears down the world so He can build an oth er .

Bad as the time of Judges was, it was not the end of the age of the ox. At the end of Judges, the tabernacle stll stands at Shiloh. The early chapters of 1 Samuel describe the end of the priestly age.

1-2 Samuel has a whole can be outlined simply with the three major characters of the book:

Sam uel, Saul , and Da vid

The age of the ox comes to an end because of the sins of the priests:


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