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Guides to God’s Word: Volume #9

Author: Michael Whitworth

Hardcover with dust jacket | 14 chapters, 400+ pages

In the waning days of the Judges, Israel found herself in dire straits.

A corrupt priesthood. An apathetic people. Foreign threats. Domestic strife. The offspring of Abraham teetered on the brink of destruction.

But out of this fog of despair, Yahweh raised up three unlikely leaders: a formidable prophet named Samuel, a timid farmer named Saul, and a shepherd boy named David. Together, these three anointed ones transformed Israel from a dysfunctional tribal confederacy into a regional dynasty.

THE ANOINTED explores the early days of Israel's monarchy as told in the Book of Samuel. It is a story of priests and prophets, shepherds and seers, tyrants and troubadours. But a common thread unites them all: each one bore the anointing of God’s Spirit.