1 Samuel 15:17
17 Samuel said, "Although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
A. Saul and the spirit of intimidation
1. Saul, the first king of Israel, struggled with a spirit that plagues even men who have accomplished great things: the spirit of intimidation. This spirit of timidity, fear, and inferiority leads to all types of destructive behavior.

Esau didn't like his Brother. And he had good reason. Jacob was always taking his stuff.
Of course, it wasn't just taking his shirt without asking. And it was worse than borrowing his CDs, or taking the batteries from his CD player - whenever he wanted to - and not bringing them back (well, if he HAD a CD player!). It was worse than taking Esau's best bow and losing half the arrows (and not even bothering to look for them because they weren't HIS arrows), and bringing the bow back all bent and busted up and broken.

1. Here began a feud that was to cost countless lives throughout succeeding centuries. Esau's descendants, the Amalekites, were the first enemies to obstruct the flight of Jacob's descendants from Egypt (Exod. 17:8). Bloody battles were fought between the two nations in the centuries that followed. It was Herod, of Esau's race (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 14:1, Section 3), who had the male infants of Bethlehem slain in an effort to destroy the Christ Child (Matt. 2:16).

The generational curses of the law above are listed in Deuteronomy 28:15-68 and mostly involve the following:

• Rebellion
  
• Mental sickness
  
• Physical sickness
  
• Family breakdowns
• Poverty
  
• Defeat
  
• Oppression
  
• Failure
• Lack of humility