Long Term Faithfulness

It is a great thing to be able to say that you have walked with a people and with God from childhood to greyheadedness. Samuel could say so.

       Yahweh and Samuel make the same claim that they have treated the people with integrity all their days. The people have to admit that Yahweh has treated them fairly and judged them righteously all their days, just as Samuel did. And yet, they did not return that faithfulness to Samuel or to Yahweh.