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New American Standard Bible

1 Samuel 8:10

So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked him for a king.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   Israel;   Rulers;   Samuel;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   The Topic Concordance - Forsaking;   Hearing;   Idolatry;   Rejection;   Service;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Tribute;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - King;   Samuel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - King, Christ as;   Spirituality;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Taxes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - King, Kingship;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Prayer;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Elder;   Law of Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jotham;   Punishments;   Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Government;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Samuel told all the Lord’s words to the people who were asking him for a king.
Hebrew Names Version
Shemu'el told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked of him a king.
King James Version
And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king.
Lexham English Bible
So Samuel spoke all the words of Yahweh to the people who were requesting a king from him.
English Standard Version
So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king from him.
New Century Version
So Samuel told those who had asked him for a king what the Lord had said.
New English Translation
So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.
Amplified Bible
So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Samuel told all the wordes of the Lord vnto the people that asked a King of him.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Samuel spoke all the words of Yahweh to the people who had asked of him a king.
Contemporary English Version
Samuel told the people who were asking for a king what the Lord had said:
Complete Jewish Bible
Sh'mu'el reported everything Adonai had said to the people asking him for a king.
Darby Translation
And Samuel spoke all the words of Jehovah to the people that asked of him a king.
Easy-to-Read Version
Those people asked for a king. So Samuel told them everything the Lord said.
George Lamsa Translation
And Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked of him a king.
Good News Translation
Samuel told the people who were asking him for a king everything that the Lord had said to him.
Literal Translation
And Samuel spoke all Jehovah's Words to the people who were asking a king from him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Samuel tolde all the wordes of the LORDE vnto ye people, that requyred a kinge of him.
American Standard Version
And Samuel told all the words of Jehovah unto the people that asked of him a king.
Bible in Basic English
And Samuel said all these words of the Lord to the people who were desiring a king.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Samuel tolde all the wordes of the Lorde vnto the people that asked a king of him,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
King James Version (1611)
And Samuel told all the words of the Lord vnto the people, that asked of him a King.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Samuel spoke every word of the Lord to the people who asked of him a king.
English Revised Version
And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
Berean Standard Bible
So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Samuel seide alle the wordis of the Lord to the puple, that hadde axid of him a king; and he seide,
Young's Literal Translation
And Samuel speaketh all the words of Jehovah unto the people who are asking from him a king,
Update Bible Version
And Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people that asked of him a king.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people that asked of him a king.
World English Bible
Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.
New King James Version
So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked him for a king.
New Living Translation
So Samuel passed on the Lord 's warning to the people who were asking him for a king.
New Life Bible
So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who had asked him for a king.
New Revised Standard
So Samuel reported all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Samuel spake all the words of Yahweh unto the people, who were asking of him, a king.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had desired a king of him,
Revised Standard Version
So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking a king from him.
THE MESSAGE
So Samuel told them, delivered God 's warning to the people who were asking him to give them a king. He said, "This is the way the kind of king you're talking about operates. He'll take your sons and make soldiers of them—chariotry, cavalry, infantry, regimented in battalions and squadrons. He'll put some to forced labor on his farms, plowing and harvesting, and others to making either weapons of war or chariots in which he can ride in luxury. He'll put your daughters to work as beauticians and waitresses and cooks. He'll conscript your best fields, vineyards, and orchards and hand them over to his special friends. He'll tax your harvests and vintage to support his extensive bureaucracy. Your prize workers and best animals he'll take for his own use. He'll lay a tax on your flocks and you'll end up no better than slaves. The day will come when you will cry in desperation because of this king you so much want for yourselves. But don't expect God to answer."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked of him a king.

Contextual Overview

4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; 5 and they said to him, "Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint us a king to judge us like all the nations." 6 But the matter was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." And Samuel prayed to the LORD. 7 And the LORD said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people regarding all that they say to you, because they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being King over them. 8 "Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day—in that they have abandoned Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you as well. 9 "Now then, listen to their voice; however, you shall warn them strongly and tell them of the practice of the king who will reign over them." 10 So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked him for a king.11 And he said, "This will be the practice of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and put them in his chariots for himself and among his horsemen, and they will run before his chariots. 12 "He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to do his plowing and to gather in his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 "He will also take your daughters and use them as perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 43:1 - all the words

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
"For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."
Genesis 7:10
Now it came about after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
Genesis 8:12
Then he waited another seven days longer, and sent out the dove; but it did not return to him again.
Psalms 40:1
I waited patiently for the LORD; And He reached down to me and heard my cry.
Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait for the LORD who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will wait eagerly for Him.
Isaiah 26:8
Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, LORD, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name, and remembering You, is the desire of our souls.
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not see, through perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto them,.... How he considered this request of theirs as a rejection of him as their king, and that it was acting the same ungrateful part they had always done; and since they were so importunate to have it granted, it should be done; but that he was ordered to lay before them all the inconveniences that would attend it, and the evils that would follow upon it unto them:

that asked of him a king; which is observed, not to distinguish a part of them from the rest; for this was an united request of the people.


 
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