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62 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
bors, the Israelites came to the prophet Samuel
and asked him to appoint a visible earthly king
over them . Jehovah God commanded Samuel to
carry out their wishes, saying : "They have not
rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I
should not be king over them." So under Jehovah's
guidance Samuel anointed Saul of the tribe
of Benjamin as Israel's first human king.-1 Samuel
8 :7 ; 10 :1 ; 11:14,15, ASV.
b Because of King Saul's disobedient failures
Jehovah God removed him from the throne and
had the shepherd of Bethlehem, David, a man
agreeable to His heart, anointed and installed
as king of the Theocratic kingdom. David completed
the conquest of the city of Jerusalem
and made it the capital city of Israel . He established
his throne at its citadel called ion, and
there also he brought the most sacred article of
Jehovah's worship, the ark of the covenant . To
the prophet Nathan he bared his heart's desire
to build a magnificent temple to house the precious
ark of the covenant . Jehovah overruled this
desire because David had been a man of war and
blood in Theocratic warfare against Jehovah's
foes ; but David's peaceful son was to have the
privilege of carrying out David's wish to build
the temple .
s Jehovah God now unfolded wider his purpose
to have an everlasting kingdom by the Seed of
His "woman" . He had raised up for a prophetic
5. Who next became king? What did he desire to build?
6. What did God establish with David? What did this
disclose?