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A Covenant for a Kingdom Made with DavidGod’s “Eternal Purpose” Now Triumphing for Man’s Good
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God, as the Sovereign Lord over Israel, did the choosing of the man to be Israel’s first human king. He sent Samuel to anoint Saul the son of Kish of the tribe of Benjamin to be the king. In the year 1117 B.C.E. Saul was installed as king at the city of Mizpah. “The people began to shout and say: ‘Let the king live!’” Saul reigned for forty years.—1 Samuel 8:1 through 10:25; Acts 13:21.a
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A Covenant for a Kingdom Made with DavidGod’s “Eternal Purpose” Now Triumphing for Man’s Good
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a In Antiquities of the Jews, Book 10, chapter 8, paragraph 4, Flavius Josephus of the first century C.E. assigns twenty years to King Saul. But in Book 6, chapter 14, paragraph 9, Josephus wrote: “Now Saul, reigned eighteen years while Samuel was alive, and after his death two,” to which some Josephus manuscripts add: “and twenty”; making a total of forty years.
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