What does 1 Samuel 8:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles."
Verse 1 Samuel 8:20. _MAY JUDGE US_] This appears to be a rejection of Samuel. _GO OUT BEFORE US_] Be in every respect our head and governor. _AND FIGHT OUR BATTLES._] Be the general of our armies....
FIGHT OUR BATTLES - It appears from 1 Samuel 12:12, that the warlike movements of Nahash had already begun to excite alarm....
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 esta...
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...
Reply of the people 19. _Nevertheless_ Simply AND....
THAT WE MAY BE LIKE ALL OTHER NATIONS— What unaccountable blindness was it in the Israelites, not to perceive that their happiness principally consisted in their not being like other nations, but unde...
_The People Persist._ 1 Samuel 8:19-22 19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; 20 That we also may be like all the nations...
_THAT WE ALSO MAY BE LIKE ALL THE NATIONS; AND THAT OUR KING MAY JUDGE US, AND GO OUT BEFORE US, AND FIGHT OUR BATTLES._ That we also may be like all the nations. The first part of this energetic ans...
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...
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...
LIKE ALL THE NATIONS. — There is something strangely painful in these terms with which the elders urged their request — the wish “to be like other nations” seems to have been very strong with them. Th...
וְ הָיִ֥ינוּ גַם ־אֲנַ֖חְנוּ כְּ כָל ־הַ גֹּויִ֑ם וּ שְׁפָטָ֤נוּ מַלְכֵּ֨נוּ֙ וְ יָצָ֣א לְ...
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...
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...
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...
_Nations. We are neither better nor worse than the rest. What extravagance! for a people to abandon a state of happiness, and the dominion of God, and to prefer the service of a man! (Calmet) --- For...
(19) Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; (20) That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, an...
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...
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...
THAT WE ALSO MAY BE LIKE ALL THE NATIONS,.... Even though they were slaves, like them; a king they would have, as they had, such was their stupidity. It was their greatest honour and glory, as well as...
That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. Ver. 20. _That we also may._] So ambitious they were of losing their liberty, be...
_Nevertheless the people refused to obey_ This description of kingly government, as then exercised in the East, did not deter them from persisting in their desires. But they still peremptorily demande...
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...
THE DISADVANTAGES SET FORTH TO THE PEOPLE...
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...
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...
THAT WE ALSO MAY BE LIKE ALL THE NATIONS: woeful stupidity! whereas it was their glory and happiness that they were unlike all other nations, NUMBERS 23:9 DEUTERONOMY 33:28, as in other glorious privi...
1 Samuel 8:20 nations H1471 king H4428 judge H8199 (H8804) out H3318 (H8804) before H6440 fight H3898 (H8738) battles H4421 1 Samuel 8:5; Exodus 33:16; Leviticus 20:24-26; Numbe
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 wo...
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 they said, Nay, but we will have a king over us._ A KING DESIRED If we were asked what is the prevailing feeling which the study of this history is calculated to produce, we should answer in on...
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. Until now the people had depend...
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 allus...
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...
1 Peter 2:9; 1 Samuel 8:5; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Deuteronomy 7:6; Exodus 33:16; John 15:19; Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 23:9; Philippians 3:20;...
Be like — What stupidity! It was their happiness that they were unlike all other nations, Numbers 23:9; Deuteronomy 33:28, as in other glorious privileges, so especially in this, that the Lord was the...