1 – In verses 1-5, Samuel places himself on trial. What are the conclusions?

2a – What is the point of the history lesson in verses 6-13? How is it similar to the people Samuel is addressing? How is it essentially unlike them?

2b – When the people needed help in the past, who did they turn to? Who are they turning to now for help? What kind of help?

2c – If Israel's problems were not caused by bad leadership - then what?

3 - In verses 17-22 a terrifying thunderstorm tkes place. Can the people look to a human king to deliver them from a storm? Then to whom should they turn? Why? What does this demonstrate?

4a – Even though everyone now recognized that the request for a king was wrong and displeased God, what hope does Samuel offer them?

4b – Even when we choose wrongly, make mistakes, even sin, what hope is offered to us? Based on what?