Greatest Story Ever Told: Judges to Kings

They waited to the point of embarrassment...

...“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.” Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women...They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must never intermarry with them because the foreign women... Will surely turn your heart to their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to these women in love. In fact, he married 700 women from foreign countries and had 300 concubines, and his wives led him astray.

As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was no longer wholly devoted to his God...

So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and no longer followed the Lord fully.

So the Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart was no longer wholly devoted to Him...