Guiding Questions: I Samuel 12

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. Note the number of times in Samuel’s retelling of the history of the relationship between God and the Jewish People that God has been disappointed by their behavior. Why is it that God is seemingly still willing to trust them?
  2. After the Lord sends “thunder and rain,” why is it then that Samuel believes the people will see that “your evil is great?”

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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