1 Samuel 8:4
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What does 1 Samuel 8:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,"
What does 1 Samuel 8:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,"
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...
_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 patriarchal system of government the Elders or heads of families are...
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 Israe...
_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...
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...
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...
וַ יִּֽתְקַבְּצ֔וּ כֹּ֖ל זִקְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַ יָּבֹ֥אוּ אֶל ־שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל הָ רָמָֽתָה׃...
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...
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...
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)....
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ELDERS; either for age, or dignity and power....
1 Samuel 8:4 elders H2205 Israel H3478 together H6908 (H8691) came H935 (H8799) Samuel H8050 Ramah H7414 the elders - Exodus 3:16, Exodus 24:1; 2 Samuel 5:3...
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 dyna...
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. 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...
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...
2 Samuel 5:3; Exodus 24:1; Exodus 3:16...