5. And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king. (I Samuel 15:22-23)

6. Continue the historical record of God's dealing with His people.

7. Israel.

8. God carries out His plan through those obedient to Him in spite of their human frailties.

9. Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to Himself and to make Him a name, and to do for you things great and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods. (II Samuel 7:22-23)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN:

1. The author is unknown. It was possibly Jeremiah.

2. To continue the record of God's dealings with His people, Israel.

3. Israel.

4. Compromise may seem an easy way but it is always costly later.

5. Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. (I Kings 19:18)

6. To continue the record of God's dealings with His people, Israel.

7. Israel.

8. Kingdoms of this world are temporal: They rise and fall under God's control.