1 Samuel

Stories about the men called Samuel, Saul, and David

(From the book in the Holy Bible called

About these stories

These stories are about things that happened about 3,000 years ago, in the country called Israel.

Somebody wrote these stories in a big book called

We have not yet translated all of the stories from 1 Samuel.

The stories in this book are about 3 men called Samuel, Saul, and David.

Samuel was God’s messenger to the Israel nation. God got him to pick Saul to be their big boss. At first Saul lived the right way, but later, he went wrong. So God told Samuel that he was going to make David the next big boss of the Israel nation. David was a very young man at that time. As he grew older, Saul got jealous of him and made trouble for him.

These stories are important, and we can learn a lot from them. They help us know what God is like, and how he looks after his people. And they show us the sort of person God wants.