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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:12

To ear his ground. — To ear, that is, to plough. The word is an old word (Anglo-Saxon earian), and connected with the Latin arare.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This organization was as old as the time of Moses Numbers 31:14; Deuteronomy 1:15, and prevailed among the Philistines also 1 Samuel 29:2. The civil and military divisions were identical, and the civi...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EAR. plough (Anglo-Saxon, _erian)._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _captains over thousands and captains over fifties_ The Sept. reads "captains of hundreds and captains of thousands," which are the usual military divisions (ch. 1 Samuel 22:7; Numbers 31:14): but the...

  • 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 APPOINT HIM CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OVER FIFTIES; AND WILL SET THEM TO EAR HIS GROUND, AND TO REAP HIS HARVEST, AND TO MAKE HIS INSTRUMENTS OF WAR, AND INSTRUMENTS OF HIS CH...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ לָ שׂ֣וּם לֹ֔ו שָׂרֵ֥י אֲלָפִ֖ים וְ

  • 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

    _Centurions, or body-guards. (Menochius) --- These offices might be honourable, but at the same time disagreeable, when people were forced to accept of them, and to neglect their more pleasing agricul...

  • 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

    AND HE WILL APPOINT HIM CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OVER FIFTIES,.... Which though posts of honour, yet when they are not matter of choice, and especially being precarious, and depending on...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and [will set them] to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his...

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

    _He will appoint him_ Hebrew, _To_ or _for himself;_ for his own fancy, or glory, and not only when the necessities of the kingdom require it. _Captains over thousands, and captains over fifties_ Will...

  • 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

    And he will appoint him, simply press into service, CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS AND CAPTAINS OVER FIFTIES, men for every position in his army, from the highest to the lowest; AND WILL SET THEM TO EAR HIS...

  • 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

    HE WILL APPOINT HIM, Heb. _to_ or _for himself_ emphatically, i.e. for his own fancy, or glory, or conveniency, or evil design, and not only when the necessities of the kingdom or commonwealth require...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 8:12 appoint H7760 (H8800) captains H8269 thousands H505 captains H8269 fifties H2572 plow H2790 (H8800) gr

  • 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 8:12 The COMMANDERS OF THOUSANDS AND COMMANDERS OF FIFTIES were probably permanent officers over soldiers forced to serve. The king will also force people to make weapons, 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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 27:1; 1 Kings 4:22; 1 Kings 4:23; 1 Kings 4:27; 1

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Will appoint — Heb. To, or for himself; for his own fancy, or glory, and not only when the necessities of the kingdom require it. And though this might seem to he no incumbrance, but an honour to the...

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