Finished Shmuel Aleph (Samuel I.) Personally I feel a
great deal of sympathy for Shaul (Saul.) He was a good boy looking for
his dad’s lost sheep when suddenly Shmuel anoints him and proclaims him King of
Israel, a position he never sought. He is seized suddenly by the divine spirit,
which, after his failure at several critical moments for which he was
unprepared, was ripped away from him, along with his kingdom. He dies a
gruesome death on Mount Gilboa after seeing his three sons killed in front of
him. I think most of his actions can be justified.
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