The first Book of Samuel begins with a description of the prophet Samuel's birth and of how God called to him as a boy.

* Call of Samuel or Youth of Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1-7 ): From Samuel's birth his career as Judge and prophet over Israel.

Samuel answers the description of the " prophet like Moses " predicted in Deuteronomy 18: 15-22: like Moses, he has direct contact with Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, acts as a judge, and is a perfect leader who never makes mistakes.

Saul is the chosen one, a king appointed by Yahweh, God of Israel, and anointed by Samuel, Yahweh's prophet, and yet he is ultimately rejected.

Traditionally ascribed to the prophet Samuel, it is regarded by revisionist scholars as a novella of probable Hellenistic-era date.

The prophet Samuel is my warrant, who, when he had Agag, king of Amalek, in his power, hewed him in pieces, saying, As they sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.

The people of Israel then told Samuel the prophet that they needed to be governed by a permanent king, and Samuel appointed Saul to be their King.

“ One finds in the biblical text ,” writes Alfred Sendrey, “ a sudden and unexplained upsurge of large choirs and orchestras, consisting of thoroughly organized and trained musical groups, which would be virtually inconceivable without lengthy, methodical preparation .” This has led some scholars to believe that the prophet Samuel was the patriarch of a school, which taught not only prophets and holy men, but also sacred-rite musicians.

According to the Talmud there were also seven women who are counted as prophets whose message bears relevance for all generations: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Hannah ( mother of the prophet Samuel ), Abigail ( a wife of King David ), Huldah ( from the time of Jeremiah ), and Esther.

He was anointed by the prophet Samuel and reigned from Gibeah.

This may be indicative of the tension between what a certain faction of the people wanted, and a definite reluctance of certain leaders ( e. g., the prophet Samuel ) to break with the old tribal order.

After 20 years of such oppression, Samuel, who had gained national prominence as a prophet, summoned the people to Mizpah ( one of the highest hills in the land ), where he organized them into an army, and led them against the Philistines.

In 1 Samuel 9: 6-20, Samuel is seen as a local “ seer .” The Deuteronomistic Historians preserved this view of Samuel while contributing him as “ the first of prophets to articulate the failure of Israel to live up to its covenant with God .” For the Deuteronomistic Historians, Samuel was extension of Moses and continuing Moses ’ function as a prophet, judge, and a priest which made historical Samuel uncertain.

Samuel is also a revered prophet and seer in the Islamic faith.

Thus, God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint Saul as the first king for the Israelites.

2 ) A Kohathite ancestor of the prophet Samuel ( 1 Chr 6: 36 ).

For example, the Hebrew prophet Samuel, would " lie down and sleep in the temple at Shiloh before the Ark and receive the word of the Lord.

Tariqa Muhammadiyya ( the Way of Mohammad ) is a school of reform Sufism that arose in the 18th century and seeks to redirect and harmonize Sufi philosophy and practices with the authority and example of the prophet and hadith.

In Revelation 21-23, as in the closing visions of Ezekiel, the prophet is transported to a high mountain, where a heavenly messenger measures the symmetrical new Jerusalem, complete with high walls and twelve gates, the dwelling-place of God, producing a state of perfect well-being for his people.

The Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints also uses the older RLDS Church version of the Doctrine and Covenants up to section 144, and also contains new revelations from their prophet – president Frederick Niels Larsen.

The largest group of Mormons, or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, accepted Brigham Young as the new prophet / leader and emigrated to what became the Utah Territory.

He came to believe himself to be the prophet of a new age, the Æon of Horus, based upon a spiritual experience that he and his wife, Rose Edith, had in Egypt in 1904.

The modern artist – prophet stands alone at the apex of the pyramid, making new discoveries and ushering in tomorrow's reality.

In response to this new phenomenon, the Ottoman Empire banned the sale or importation of some materials relating to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 1900.

An inherently modest man, al-Hakim did not believe that he was God, and felt ad-Darazi was trying to depict himself as a new prophet.

The legislature also approved a request to call the new city Lehi, after a Book of Mormon prophet of the same name.

After his return he was not taken particularly seriously, and was hard put to get audiences for his new works, hence his " prophet without honour " remark after the nearly empty hall and indifferent reception of Richard III and Wallenstein's Camp at Žofín Island in January 1862.

Mendelssohn has been described as the "' third Moses ,' with whom begins a new era in Judaism ," just as new eras began with Moses the prophet and with Moses Maimonides.

This practice was not considered acceptable to the Zoroastrian priests, who consequently founded a new era, the era of Zoroaster-which incidentally led to the first serious attempt to establish a historical date for the prophet.

According to the Midrash, all divine commandments were given on Mount Sinai, and no prophet could add any new one.

According to Cowan, the slaughter temporarily weakened the new confidence in Pai-marire, but chief prophet Te Ua had a satisfying explanation: that those who fell were to blame because they did not repose absolute faith in the karakia, or incantation.

Gurudevan, as he was fondly known to his followers, led Reform movement in Kerala, revolted against casteism and worked on propagating new values of freedom in spirituality and of social equality, thereby transforming the Kerala society and as such he is adored as a prophet.

Mass conversions have also occurred in the region around Pura Agung Blambangan, another new temple, built on a site with minor archaeological remnants attributed to the kingdom of Blambangan, the last Hindu polity on Java, and Pura Loka Moksa Jayabaya ( in the village of Menang near Kediri ), where the Hindu king and prophet Jayabaya is said to have achieved spiritual liberation ( moksa ).

Homer's Odyssey provides the poem's narrative background: in its eleventh book the prophet Tiresias foretells that Ulysses will return to Ithaca after a difficult voyage, then begin a new, mysterious voyage, and later die a peaceful, " unwarlike " death that comes vaguely " from the sea ".

When Joseph Smith, Jr., the Latter Day Saint prophet, took up residence in Hiram, Ohio, four miles from the Snow farm in 1831, the Snow family took a strong interest in the new religious movement.

After Smith's death, Harris continued this earlier pattern, remaining in Kirtland and accepting James J. Strang as Mormonism's new prophet, a prophet with his own set of supernatural plates and witnesses to authenticate them.

Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis wrote in The Journal of Bahá ’ í Studies that Shikasta is the " symbolic rendering of the coming of a new prophet to an earthlike planet ", and relates it to Bahá ’ í principles.

The prophet and new premier was radio evangelist William Aberhart ( 1878 – 1943 ).

The Mundas, Oraons, and Kharias flocked to Chalkad to see the new prophet and to be cured of their ills.

( Arabic: صالح بن طريف ) was the second king of the Berghouata Berber kingdom, and proclaimed himself a prophet of a new religion.

Isaiah's first significant acts as a prophet occurred when Judah, under king Ahaz, faced invasion from Israel and Aram Damascus ( Syria ) after refusing to join them in a revolt against Assyria, the dominant imperial power of the age.

Of notable importance is Isaiah 7: 14, where the prophet is assuring king Ahaz that God will save Judah from the invading armies of Israel and Syria ; the sign that will prove this is the forthcoming birth of a child called Emmanuel, " God With Us ".

David ( biblical king ) | David and a prophet from the Well of Moses

The Christian view of Jesus as Messiah goes beyond such claims and is the fulfillment and union of three anointed offices ; a prophet like Moses who delivers God's commands and covenant and frees people from bondage, a High Priest in the order of Melchizedek overshadowing the Levite priesthood and a king like King David ruling over Jews, and like God ruling over the whole world and coming from the line of David.

In Islam he is considered to be a prophet and the king of a nation.

In Ezekiel 28: 12-19 the prophet Ezekiel ( the " son of man ") sets down God's word against the king of Tyre: the king was the " seal of perfection ", adorned with precious stones from the day of his creation, placed by God in the garden of Eden on the holy mountain as a guardian cherub.

Influenced by the words of the prophet Ahijah (), he began to form conspiracies with the view of becoming king of the ten tribes ; but these were discovered, and he fled to Egypt, where he remained under the protection of pharaoh Shishak until the death of Solomon.

For the unnamed " king of Babylon " a wide range of identifications have been proposed. They include a Babylonian ruler of the prophet Isaiah's own time the later Nebuchadnezzar II, under whom the Babylonian captivity of the Jews began, or Nabonidus, and the Assyrian kings Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon II and Sennacherib, Herbert Wolf held that the " king of Babylon " was not a specific ruler but a generic representation of the whole line of rulers.

The word Masih literally means " The anointed one " and in Islam, Isa al-Masih is believed to have been anointed from birth by Alläh with the specific task of being a prophet and a king.

In return for his adherence to God ’ s discipline and speaking God ’ s words, Jeremiah was attacked by his own brothers, beaten and put into the stocks by a priest and false prophet, imprisoned by the king, threatened with death, thrown into a cistern by Judah ’ s officials, and opposed by a false prophet.

While David was in this state his fourth son Adonijah, heir apparent to the throne after the death of his elder brothers Amnon and Absalom, acted to have himself declared king, But Bathsheba, a wife of David and Solomon's mother, along with the prophet Nathan convinced David to proclaim Solomon king.

According to Islamic history, the Israelites, after the time of the prophet Moses, wanted a king to rule over their country.

The Qur ' an goes on to state that a king was anointed by the prophet, whose name was Talut ( Saul in the Hebrew Bible ).

The Jewish Sages themselves considered this a prophetic work that was written during the time of the Prophet Jeremiah by his colleagues, but these latter prophets then attributed their result to king Solomon, just as other writings of Jewish Scripture have been written by one prophet while being attributed to another, such as the Book of Hosea, Isaiah, and others.

The prophet Ether had warned Coriantumr, the last king of the Jaredite nation, that if he did not obey the Lord he would live to see the end of the Jaredites.

According to Ibn Ishaq, he was stopped from doing so by two rabbis from the Banu Qurayza tribe, who implored the king to spare the oasis because it was the place " to which a prophet of the Quraysh would migrate in time to come, and it would be his home and resting-place.