1 Samuel 24 and 26. In these two stories, it seems as though the LORD has the subtlety of a megaphone as He creates two perfect opportunities for David to kill the man who has been trying to kill him. But David refuses to kill “the LORD’s anointed” (1Sa 24:6).
1 Samuel 15. The LORD tells Saul to utterly destroy the nation of Amalek. Saul had a better idea. (It was not a better idea.)
Hannah praises the LORD because He gave her a son. She was barren and taunted by “her rival” (v. 6) but she prayed desperately for a son.
A prophet (1Sa 3:20) and effectively the last judge of Israel (Acts 13:20). He appoints the first king of Israel… then condemns him as unfaithful to God. Then Samuel appoints the successor in waiting.
The main idea is that the firstborn — especially a son — gets “dibs” on everything, like the inheritance, or at least the larger share of it. But there is more to the word than just the idea of “the first son to be born.”
The book of 1 Samuel, which is about David and Saul. And Samuel.
Ruth, a widow, seeks a man to marry in Israel. It is a book of the Bible, but it tells a single story in four chapters.
Joshua chapter 2. Rahab is a non-Israelite prostitute who deceives, largely for her own safety and that of her family. And so… she is praised as a hero of faith in Hebrews 11:31, an example of good works in James 2:25, and she is pivotal in the success of Israel’s conquest of Canaan.