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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

1 Samuel 8:17

His servants — That is, he will use you like slaves, and deprive you of that liberty which now you enjoy.

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See also 1 Samuel 8:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    See illustrations in marginal references; 1 Kings 5:13; 1 Kings 12:4....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and ye shall be his servants_ To sum up all briefly, ye will be _slaves_to the king ye have chosen....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The rights of a king 10. _unto the people_ Through their representatives the elders. Cp. note on 1 Samuel 8:4....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Samuel Describes a King._ 1 Samuel 8:10-18 10 And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king. 11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HE WILL TAKE THE TENTH OF YOUR SEED, AND OF YOUR VINEYARDS, AND GIVE TO HIS OFFICERS, AND TO HIS SERVANTS._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    8:17 sheep. (b-8) Or also 'goats.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND YE SHALL BE HIS SERVANTS. — This statement generally includes all that has gone before. In other words, “Ye elders and chiefs of the people must make up your minds, in the event of electing a king...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    צֹאנְכֶ֖ם יַעְשֹׂ֑ר וְ אַתֶּ֖ם תִּֽהְיוּ ־לֹ֥ו...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER VIII. Servants, or slaves. The Hebrews enjoyed greater liberty than any of the nations in the East, yet they are styled slaves, chap. xvii. 8. They were nearly on the same footing as the anci...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (10) And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. (11) And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and ap...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HE WILL TAKE THE TENTH OF YOUR SHEEP,.... As well as of their seed and vineyards; and not the tithe of their flocks only, but of their herds also, which are here included, as Kimchi observes: AND YE...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. Ver. 17. _And ye shall be his servants._] His slaves to do his drudgery, more like peasants of France than yeomen of Kent, as he sa...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He will take your men-servants_ By constraint, and without sufficient recompense. _Your goodliest young men_ The most beautiful and proper person she can find; _and your asses, and put them to his wo...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He will take the tenth of your sheep, the small cattle, including goats; AND YE SHALL BE HIS SERVANTS, they would lose all their political and social freedom and place a yoke upon their necks which th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DISADVANTAGES SET FORTH TO THE PEOPLE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. He shall use you like slaves, and deprive you of that liberty which you now enjoy....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 8:17 tenth H6237 (H8799) sheep H6629 servants H5650...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 8:9 The Lord told Samuel to SOLEMNLY WARN the people about THE WAYS OF THE KING, since they so desperately wanted their own king. Some of the things Samuel warned about were...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 8:17 YOU SHALL BE HIS SLAVES. The Israelites and all their possessions would be subject to the king’s use. Forced labor (see 1 Kings 5:13) would pr

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

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