Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
1 Samuel 8:8
Thou farest no worse than myself. This he speaks for Samuel's comfort and vindication.
Thou farest no worse than myself. This he speaks for Samuel's comfort and vindication.
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...
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...
_so do they also unto thee_ Cp. John 15:20....
_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...
_ACCORDING TO ALL THE WORKS WHICH THEY HAVE DONE SINCE THE DAY THAT I BROUGHT THEM UP OUT OF EGYPT EVEN UNTO THIS DAY, WHEREWITH THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND SERVED OTHER GODS, SO DO THEY ALSO UNTO THEE...
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...
WHICH THEY HAVE DONE] LXX adds 'to me,' an addition which is required by the contrast with 'to thee.'...
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...
כְּ כָֽל ־הַ מַּעֲשִׂ֣ים אֲשֶׁר ־עָשׂ֗וּ מִ
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...
_Thee. He comforts Samuel, by observing that it was not so much any fault of his, as the people's habitual fickle temper, which made them seek for this change. (Menochius)_...
(7) And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. ...
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...
ACCORDING TO ALL THE WORKS WHICH THEY HAVE DONE SINCE THE DAY THAT I BROUGHT THEM OUT OF EGYPT,.... This was no new thing; all that they had done since they were wonderfully favoured of God, as to be...
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee....
_So do they also unto thee_ Thou farest no worse than myself. This he speaks for Samuel's comfort and vindication. _Yet protest solemnly unto them_ That, if it be possible, thou mayest yet prevent the...
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...
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken Me and served other gods, so do they also unto thee....
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...
1 Samuel 8:8 works H4639 done H6213 (H8804) day H3117 up H5927 (H8687) Egypt H4714 forsaken H5800 ...
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...
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...
_Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee._ PRAYER ANSWERED UNDER PROTEST Prayer is certainly a most salutary exercise whenever one is agitated beyond his strength. When th...
_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
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...
Acts 7:51; Deuteronomy 9:24; Exodus 14:11; Exodus 14:12; Exodus 16:3;...
So do they — Thou farest no worse than myself. This he speaks for Samuel's comfort and vindication....
How could God condemn Israel’s request for a king when the rules for selecting a king were given by God in Deuteronomy 17? PROBLEM: The Scriptures testify to the fact that God had planned for Israel t...