Day 14: Saul

Tonight we held Advent unusually early because we had plans for a long-overdue date night! As I've mentioned in previous posts, we are still working out our order and have decided it may even change from year to year as we focus on different parts of our history or work according to different themes. Our Jesse Tree list did not include King Saul and we felt he was too important to skip, so we talked about him tonight even though we were not prepared with an ornament.

Day 14: King Saul
Continuing the story of Samuel from last night, Samuel ruled as judge over Israel for many, many years. He left this role to his two wicked sons, but as predicted they did not rule long and the elders of Israel asked for a king rather than judges to rule over them in their place. The Lord Himself was their King but they wanted a king they could see instead, like the other nations around them. Samuel passed along to the people the warnings from God that having a man for king would require more of them, but they still insisted. The Lord led Samuel to tall, handsome, wealthy Saul and he anointed him as the new king. This began the line of kings over Israel.

There was a chocolate crown to go with King Saul and finally Spiderman got a body!

We are now into Volume II of Bible in Stories.
If you are following along with the Bible in Stories -  pages 234-241
If using the Bible or another Bible reader - 1 Samuel 8-10
Song "Joy to the World"

I was happy to find this manger at the Dollar Tree for their Playmobil nativity set. This is not all of the true Nativity set that you can buy, but piecing together of some of the men they already had. As you can see they did not place baby Jesus in the manger, and I guess won't until Christmas day.