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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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The rights of a king
10. _unto the people_ Through their representatives the elders. Cp.
note on 1 Samuel 8:4....
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_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...
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_ACCORDING TO ALL THE WORKS WHICH THEY HAVE DONE SINCE THE DAY THAT I
BROUGHT THEM UP OUT OF EGYPT EVEN UNTO THIS DAY, WHEREWITH THEY HAVE
FORSAKEN ME, AND SERVED OTHER GODS, SO DO THEY ALSO UNTO THEE...
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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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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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(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...
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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 SAMUEL TOLD ALL THE WORDS OF THE LORD UNTO THEM,.... How he
considered this request of theirs as a rejection of him as their king,
and that it was acting the same ungrateful part they had always d...
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And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked
of him a king.
Ver. 10. _And Samuel told, &c._] But he lost his sweet words; for the
people were set and would not be reclaimed....
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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 Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked
of him a king, thereby exhorting them to repentance....
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Samuel 8:10 Samuel H8050 told H559 (H8799) words H1697 LORD H3068
people H5971 asked H7592 (H8802) king...
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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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_And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked
of him a king._
AN ADMONITION TO THE WILFUL
When about to frame the Tabernacle in the wilderness, Moses was
specially instructed...
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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
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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...
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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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Now it came to pass, when Samuel was old, he made his sons the judges
over Israel. And the name of his firstborn was Joel; the second was
Abiah: and they were judges in Beersheba. [Which is in the sou...