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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14.
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....
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Reply of the people
19. _Nevertheless_ Simply AND....
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_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;...
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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...
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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...
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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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וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֤ה אֶל ־שְׁמוּאֵל֙
שְׁמַ֣ע ב
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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THE DISADVANTAGES SET FORTH TO THE PEOPLE...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 8:22 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Samuel H8050 Heed H8085
(H8798) voice H6963 make H4427 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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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1 Samuel 8:7; Hosea 13:11...
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Go — Betake yourselves to your several occasions, till you hear more
from me in this matter....