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See illustrations in marginal references; 1 Kings 5:13; 1 Kings 12:4....
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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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HEAR. answer....
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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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_because of your king_ Or, " FROM your king," appealing to God to
escape from his tyranny.
_will not hear you_ Rather, WILL NOT ANSWER YOU. The Sept adds
"because ye have chosen yourselves a king....
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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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_AND YE SHALL CRY OUT IN THAT DAY BECAUSE OF YOUR KING WHICH YE SHALL
HAVE CHOSEN YOU; AND THE LORD WILL NOT HEAR YOU IN THAT DAY._
Ye shall cry out in that day because of your king. Samuel showed
th...
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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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THE LORD WILL NOT HEAR YOU IN THAT DAY. — After the separation of
the north and the south, when King Solomon was dead, a large
proportion of the northern sovereigns — or kings, as they were
called, of...
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וּ זְעַקְתֶּם֙ בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ ה֔וּא...
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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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_The face, privately; for even groans will not be free. (Menochius)
--- The event justified this prediction, as most of the kings of the
Hebrews ruled like tyrants, and what was worse, engaged their s...
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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 YE SHALL CRY OUT IN THAT DAY, BECAUSE OF YOUR KING,.... His power
and pride, his oppression and tyranny, his heavy exactions, and
intolerable yoke, and yet not be able to free themselves from them...
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And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall
have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
Ver. 18. _And ye shall cry out._] As the Romans once did of Marius an...
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_He will take your men-servants_ By constraint, and without sufficient
recompense. _Your goodliest young men_ The most beautiful and proper
person she can find; _and your asses, and put them to his wo...
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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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And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall
have chosen you; finding their condition unbearable, they would pray
for deliverance; AND THE LORD WILL NOT HEAR YOU IN THAT DAY, a...
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THE DISADVANTAGES SET FORTH TO THE 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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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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YE SHALL CRY OUT IN THAT DAY; ye shall bitterly mourn for the sad
effects of this inordinate desire of a king. THE LORD WILL NOT HEAR
YOU IN THAT DAY, because you will not hear him, nor obey his couns...
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1 Samuel 8:18 out H2199 (H8804) day H3117 because H6440 king H4428
chosen H977 (H8804) LORD H3068 hear...
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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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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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Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 8:21; Job 27:9; Luke 13:25; Micah 3:4;...
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Cry out — Ye shall bitterly mourn for the sad effects of this
inordinate desire of a king. Will not hear — Because you will not
hear, nor obey his counsel in this day....