Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1 Samuel 8:6
Displeased Samuel] They had shown themselves forgetful of their relation to God and ungrateful to Samuel himself. But in spite of this, he simply leaves the decision with God.
Displeased Samuel] They had shown themselves forgetful of their relation to God and ungrateful to Samuel himself. But in spite of this, he simply leaves the decision with God.
Verse 1 Samuel 8:6. _THE THING DISPLEASED SAMUEL_] Because he saw that this amounted to a formal renunciation of the Divine government. _SAMUEL PRAYED UNTO THE LORD_] He begged to know his mind in th...
See the margin which implies that the thing spoken of caused anger, indignation, or some revulsion of feeling (see Genesis 21:11). The answer of the Lord 1 Samuel 8:7 shows that Samuel’s personal feel...
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...
DISPLEASED. was evil in the eyes of: i.e. evil, in not waiting for God's time and for God's king, as promised. Genesis 17:6; Genesis 17:16; Genesis 35:11;...
Jehovah's answer to the request 6. _the thing displeased Samuel_ 1 Samuel 8:7 implies that Samuel's displeasure arose from a feeling of the ingratitude of the Israelites toward himself in desiring tha...
_The Lord instructs Samuel._ 1 Samuel 8:6-9 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord. 7 And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unt...
_BUT THE THING DISPLEASED SAMUEL, WHEN THEY SAID, GIVE US A KING TO JUDGE US. AND SAMUEL PRAYED UNTO THE LORD._ The thing displeased Samuel. Personal and family feelings might affect his views of thi...
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...
THE THING DISPLEASED SAMUEL. — It is clear that it was perfectly justifiable in the elders of the people to come to the resolution contained in their petition to Samuel. The Deuteronomy directions con...
וַ יֵּ֤רַע הַ דָּבָר֙ בְּ עֵינֵ֣י שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל
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...
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...
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...
But the thing (d) displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. (d) Because they were not content with the order that God had appointed, but would be...
Samuel. Nothing could be more disrespectful to him, nor more ungrateful to God, who had distinguished them from all other nations, and had taken the government upon himself, and appointed the judges a...
(6) But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. I beg the Reader to remark with me, the resource of Samuel in prayer. Here, Reader, l...
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...
_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...
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...
BUT THE THING DISPLEASED SAMUEL,.... Not that they called him an old man, and suggested that he was incapacitated for his office, nor for observing the unbecoming walk of his sons, but for what follow...
But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. Ver. 6. _But the thing displeased Samuel._] Chiefly because he knew it was displeasing to...
_The thing displeased Samuel_ Because God was hereby dishonoured, through that distrust of him, and that ambition, and itch after changes, which were the manifest causes of this desire; and because of...
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...
But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. It was not the reference to the mismanagement of his sons nor to his own advancing age which hurt Samuel, but the fact that...
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...
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...
DISPLEASED SAMUEL: _ Heb._ was evil in the eyes of Samuel...
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...
The thing displeased Samuel; not their complaint of his sons, but their desire of a king, as is apparent from the following words, and from the whole course of the story; which was so grievous to him,...
1 Samuel 8:6 thing H1697 displeased H3415 (H8799) H5869 Samuel H8050 said H559 (H8804) Give H5414 ...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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 8:6 THE THING DISPLEASED SAMUEL. Literally, “the thing was evil in Samuel’s eyes.” It was more than just a personal sense of rejection....
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...
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...
1 Samuel 12:17; 1 Samuel 15:11; Exodus 32:21; Exodus 32:32; Ezra 9:3;...
Displeased — Because God was hereby dishonoured by that distrust of him, and that ambition, and itch after changes, which were the manifest causes of this desire; and because of that great misery, whi...