Betake yourselves to your several occasions, till you hear more from me in this matter; for God hath heard your words, and will give way to your irregular and obstinate desire; and accordingly I shall wait upon God for the determination of the person, which he hath wholly reserved to himself, as for judges, so for the king also, Deuteronomy 17:15, and for the regulation of all the circumstances.
Verse 1 Samuel 8:22. _HEARKEN UNTO THEIR VOICE_] Let them have what they desire, and let them abide the consequences. _GO YE EVERY MAN UNTO HIS CITY._] It seems the elders of the people had tarried a...
A repetition for the third time 1 Samuel 8:7, 1 Samuel 8:9 of the expression of God’s will in the matter, marks Samuel’s great unwillingness to comply with the people’s request. Besides the natural av...
II. KING SAUL: HIS REIGN AND REJECTION 1. The King Demanded CHAPTER 8:4-22 _ 1. The king demanded (1 Samuel 8:4)_ 2. The rights of the king (1 Samuel 8:10) The kingly government is now to be estab...
1 SAMUEL 8. DEMAND FOR A KING. Opening section, continued 1 Samuel 10:17, of later account of Saul's appointment as king: either Deuteronomic or late stratum of E. Probably 1 Samuel 10:17_ a_ (to over...
MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....
Reply of the people 19. _Nevertheless_ Simply AND....
_The People Persist._ 1 Samuel 8:19-22 19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; 20 That we also may be like all the nations;...
THE PEOPLE DEMAND A KING 1. Judges] They would be subordinate to their father. When the son of a Judge was influential and popular, he might easily succeed to his father's position: cp. A bimelech in...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 8 A big change happened in the nation of *Israel. This chapter tells us how it started. The nation of *Israel began with Abraham and Sarah and...
HEARKEN UNTO THEIR VOICE. — And for the third time (see 1 Samuel 8:7; 1 Samuel 8:9) the voice of the Eternal, which Samuel the seer knew so well, used the same expression, bidding the reluctant and in...
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CHAPTER X. _ THE PEOPLE DEMAND A KING._ 1 Samuel 8:1. WHATEVER impression the "Ebenezer" of Samuel may have produced at the time, it passed away with the lapse of years. The feeling that, in sympath...
REJECTING THE PROPHET'S WARNING 1 Samuel 8:10 The people had entreated Samuel to cry unto God in their behalf; and now we see him going to and fro between the people and God, as a true mediator and i...
This first Book of Samuel at this point merges into its second division, which has to do with Saul. First we have the account of the clamor of the people for a king and the divine answer thereto. The...
REFLECTIONS AMIDST the growing age and infirmities of all God's faithful servants, though we see Samuel and all the holy men and prophets going the way of all flesh, what a sweet and soul-reviving th...
(21) And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. (22) And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto...
The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, AND 10. But faith is not transmitted by succession. Samuel could not make prophets of his sons. They were no better as judges than Eli's sons had been a...
AND THE LORD SAID TO SAMUEL,.... an audible voice, or by an impulse upon his mind: HEARKEN UNTO THEIR VOICE, AND MAKE THEM A KING; since they will have a king, let them have one, and let them know th...
And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city. Ver. 22. _Go ye, &c., _] _q.d., _ Your request is g...
_Go ye every man unto his city_ Betake yourselves to your several homes and employments, till you hear more from me in this matter. Thus he bade them leave the business unto him, intimating, that he d...
1 By occasion of the ill gouernment of Samuels sonnes, the Israelites aske a King. 6 Samuel praying in griefe is comforted by God. 10 Hee telleth the manner of a King. 19 God willeth Samuel to yeel...
THE DISADVANTAGES SET FORTH TO THE PEOPLE...
And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye, every man unto his city. He needed some time to consider, with the Lord's adv...
However, old age often brings weariness with it. The time comes when Samuel considers it necessary to have others as judges in the land, and it was quite natural (not spiritual) that he should give th...
10-22 If they would have a king to rule them, as the eastern kings ruled their subjects, they would find the yoke exceedingly heavy. Those that submit to the government of the world and the flesh, ar...
1 Samuel 8:22 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Samuel H8050 Heed H8085 (H8798) voice H6963 make H4427 ...
YHWH'S RESPONSE TO THEIR CALL FOR A KING WAS TO WARN THEM WHAT HAVING A KING MIGHT MEAN FOR THEM (1 SAMUEL 8:7). It is typical of sinful human beings that they did not recognise that having a king wou...
CONTENTS: Israel demands a king; theocracy rejected. CHARACTERS: God, Samuel, his sons, Joel, Abiajah. CONCLUSION: When God's people will not accept His best for them, they will get the best they ca...
1 Samuel 8:3. _His sons walked not_ as their father, who always came into court with clean hands. Seeking to aggrandize their families they took bribes, and by consequence perverted judgment. The hist...
_Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king._ “VOX POPULI, VOX DEI” Perhaps there is no proverb which is more familiar, as it is certain there is none more faulty, than this: “The voice of the pe...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 8:1 Transition to the Monarchy. Chapter 1 Samuel 8:1 is a turning point in OT history, marking Israel’s transition from judgeship to kingship. Unti
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 8:22 MAKE THEM A KING. The Lord grants the people’s demands, even though it means that they have rejected him (v. 1 Samuel 8:7). By raising up David’
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 8:5. “MAKE US A KING TO JUDGE US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS.” “This request resembles so completely the law of the king in Deuteronomy 17:14, that the distinct allusi...
EXPOSITION SAUL (CHS. 8-31). THE great interest of the First Book of Samuel lies in the fact that we have in it the orderly consolidation of two of the main factors in the preparation for the manifes...
1 Samuel 8:7; Hosea 13:11...
Go — Betake yourselves to your several occasions, till you hear more from me in this matter....