1 Koningen 20:7

Staten Vertaling

Toen riep de koning van Israel alle oudsten des lands, en zeide: Merkt toch en ziet, dat deze het kwade zoekt; want hij had tot mij gezonden, om mijn vrouwen, en om mijn kinderen, en om mijn zilver, en om mijn goud, en ik heb het hem niet geweigerd.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Toen riep de koning van Isral al de oudsten des lands, en sprak: Merkt en ziet hoe boos zijn voornemen is: hij heeft tot mij gezonden om mijne vrouwen en kinderen, om mijn zilver en goud, en ik heb het hem niet geweigerd.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Nu ontbood de koning van Israel al de oudsten des lands en zeide: Merkt nu en ziet dat deze het toelegt op onzen ondergang; want toen hij tot mij zond om mijn vrouwen en zonen, mijn zilver en goud, heb ik het hem niet geweigerd.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all the elders: 1 Kings 8:1, 2 Kings 5:7, 1 Chronicles 13:1, 1 Chronicles 28:1, Proverbs 11:14

Mark: 2 Kings 5:7

seeketh mischief: Job 15:35, Psalms 7:14, Psalms 36:4, Psalms 62:3, Psalms 140:2, Proverbs 6:14, Proverbs 11:27, Proverbs 24:2, Daniel 11:27, Romans 3:13-18

denied him not: Heb. kept not back from him, 1 Kings 20:4

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 5:23 - Be content

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the King of Israel called all the elders of the land,.... His poor sneaking spirit was a little aroused with the last message, and therefore called a council of the elders of the people upon it, which was a piece of wisdom in him:

and said, mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief; nothing less than the entire ruin of the nation:

for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold, and I denied him not; in the sense he understood him, which was, that he was to be a vassal, and tributary to him, for the sake of holding these, which yet was very mean; but he wanted to have these in hand, and not them only, but the pillaging of all his subjects.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The political institution of a Council of elders (Exodus 3:16, etc.), which had belonged to the undivided nation from the sojourn in Egypt downward, had therefore been continued among the ten tribes after their separation, and still held an important place in the system of Government. The Council was not merely called together when the king needed it, but held its regular sittings at the seat of government; and hence, “all the elders of the land” were now present in Samaria. On the “elders of towns,” see 1 Kings 21:8-14.

Apparently the king had not thought it necessary to summon the Council when the first terms were announced to him, inasmuch as they touched only himself. The fresh demands affected the people at large, and it became necessary, or at any rate fitting, that “the elders” should be consulted.