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1 Samuel 8:21

So Samuel listened to everything the people said and then reported it to the Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   Samuel;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   Rehearse;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Samuel listened to all the people’s words and then repeated them to the Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
Shemu'el heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
King James Version
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
Now when Samuel heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of Yahweh.
English Standard Version
And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord .
New Century Version
After Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated their words to the Lord .
Amplified Bible
Samuel had heard all the words of the people and repeated them to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
Now after Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the LORD'S hearing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore when Samuel heard all ye wordes of ye people, he rehearsed the in ye eares of ye Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the hearing of Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
Samuel listened to them and then told the Lord exactly what they had said.
Complete Jewish Bible
Sh'mu'el heard everything the people said and repeated them for Adonai to hear.
Darby Translation
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the ears of Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Samuel listened to the people and then repeated their words to the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them before the LORD.
Good News Translation
Samuel listened to everything they said and then went and told it to the Lord .
Literal Translation
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and spoke them in the ears of Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The herkened Samuel vnto all yt ye people sayde, & tolde it before ye eares of the LORDE.
American Standard Version
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
Then Samuel, after hearing all the people had to say, went and gave an account of it to the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore when Samuel hearde all the wordes of the people, he rehearsed them in the eares of the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he spoke them in the ears of the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the eares of the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and spoke them in the ears of the Lord.
English Revised Version
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
Samuel listened to all the words of the people and repeated them in the hearing of the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Samuel herde alle the wordis of the puple, and `spak tho in the eeris of the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
And Samuel heareth all the words of the people, and speaketh them in the ears of Jehovah;
Update Bible Version
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
World English Bible
Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
New King James Version
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the hearing of the LORD.
New Living Translation
So Samuel repeated to the Lord what the people had said,
New Life Bible
After Samuel heard all the people's words, he told the Lord what they had said.
New Revised Standard
When Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, - and spake them in the ears of Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the LORD.
THE MESSAGE
Samuel took in what they said and rehearsed it with God . God told Samuel, "Do what they say. Make them a king." Then Samuel dismissed the men of Israel: "Go home, each of you to your own city."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now after Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the LORD'S hearing.

Contextual Overview

4 So all the elders of Israel gathered together and approached Samuel at Ramah. 5 They said to him, "Look, you are old, and your sons don't follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead us, just like all the other nations have." 6 But this request displeased Samuel, for they said, "Give us a king to lead us." So Samuel prayed to the Lord . 7 The Lord said to Samuel, "Do everything the people request of you. For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king. 8 Just as they have done from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you. 9 So now do as they say. But seriously warn them and make them aware of the policies of the king who will rule over them." 10 So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, "Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot. 12 He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties, as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment. 13 He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he rehearsed: Judges 11:11

Cross-References

Genesis 3:17
But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 4:12
When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."
Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying, "This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed."
Genesis 6:5
But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
Genesis 6:17
I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.
Genesis 8:2
The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
Genesis 8:3
The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.
Genesis 8:6
At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
Genesis 8:7
and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samuel heard all the words of the people,.... Patiently, and without interruption; attentively heard them, took notice of them, laid them up in his memory; but gave no answer to them, but reported them to the Lord, as in the next clause:

and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord; privately, in a free and familiar manner, with great exactness, as they were expressed; this he did, not before the people publicly, but in secret prayer, seeking for direction what he should further do, or what answer he should return to them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 8:21. Rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord. — He went to the altar, and in his secret devotion laid the whole business before God.


 
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