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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 elders of Israel_ Acting as representatives of the people, 1
Samuel 8:7_; 1 Samuel 8:10; 1 Samuel 8:19; 1 Samuel 8:22_.
In a patriarch
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The Installation of Israel's First King, 1 Samuel 8:1 to 1 Samuel
10:27.
_The people ask for a King._ 1 Samuel 8:1-5
And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges
over Israel...
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_THEN ALL THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, AND CAME
TO SAMUEL UNTO RAMAH,_
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together. This was
evidently the general council or asse...
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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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ALL THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL. — We have here a clear trace of a popular
assembly which seems in all times to have existed in Israel. Such a
body appears to have met for deliberation even during the Egypti...
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וַ יִּֽתְקַבְּצ֔וּ כֹּ֖ל זִקְנֵ֣י
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַ...
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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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SEEKING A KING LIKE OTHER NATIONS
1 Samuel 8:1
The sin that Samuel, as a lad, rebuked in Eli, reappeared in his own
family and undermined his influence. The names of Samuel's sons are
suggestive of h...
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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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Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came
to Samuel unto (c) Ramah,
(c) For there his house was, (1 Samuel 7:17)....
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(4) В¶ Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together,
and came to Samuel unto Ramah, (5) And said unto him, Behold, thou art
old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to...
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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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_WANTED—A KING!_
‘Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came
to Samuel unto Ramah, and said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy
sons walk not in thy way; now make us a ki...
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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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THEN ALL THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER,.... At
some place of rendezvous appointed; these were the heads of the
tribes, and fathers of the houses and families of Israel, the
princip...
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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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SAMUEL DISPLEASED AT THE INSISTENT DESIREV. 1. AND IT CAME TO PASS,
WHEN SAMUEL WAS OLD, THAT HE MADE HIS SONS JUDGES OVER ISRAEL, the
increasing infirmities of old age prompting him to take this step...
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Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to
Samuel unto Ramah, as a delegation representing the whole people,...
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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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4-9 Samuel was displeased; he could patiently bear what reflected on
himself, and his own family; but it displeased him when they said,
Give us a king to judge us, because that reflected upon God. It...
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THE ELDERS; either for age, or dignity and power....
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THE PEOPLE SEEK FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A KING OVER THEM (1 SAMUEL
8:1).
Outwardly the desire of the elders for a king appears reasonable, but
what they ignored was the fact that once there was a dynas...
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1 Samuel 8:4
The Book of Kings is also the Book of Samuel, not merely because the
individual man was the last of the judges and poured the anointing oil
upon the first two of the kings, but because h...
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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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_Make us a king to judge us like all the nations._
MAKING A KING
As a matter of public notoriety, Samuel’s sons were not like Samuel
himself in their moral tone and in their moral example. This bring...
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_And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons
judges over Israel._
PARENTAL TRIALS
The best sometimes meet with the bitterest disappointment, and their
grey hairs are brought down...
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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 8:4 APPOINT FOR US A KING... LIKE ALL THE
NATIONS. Samuel had appointed judges. The elders, recognizing his
authority, ask for a king. They want to exchange their unique posi...
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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...
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2 Samuel 5:3; Exodus 24:1; Exodus 3:16...