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Message of Samuel: Personalities, Potential, Politics, and Power (Bible Speaks Today) author_hughes--r--kent--hughes--w--carey the most scintillating synthesis ofPublisher's Description The books of 1 and 2 Samuel witness the transition of Israel from tribal confederacy to established monarchy. As such, questions of identity and power are unavoidable. In the aftermath of the decline of the judges, priests abuse their priestly privileges, a people covets the centralized authority of its impious neighbors, and a throne is won, forsaken, redeemed, lost and found again. In the key characters in this dawning era of