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1 Samuel 8:10

Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had desired a king of him,

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.
New American Standard Bible
So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked 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.
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 ancients of Israel being assembled came to Samuel to Ramatha. 5 And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have. 6 And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them. 8 According to all their works, they have done from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto thee. 9 Now, therefore, hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them, and foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them. 10 Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had desired a king of him, 11 And said: This will be the right of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and will make them his horsemen, and his running footmen, to run before his chariots, 12 And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and his centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make him arms and chariots. 13 Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 43:1 - all the words

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.
Genesis 7:10
And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
Genesis 8:12
And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.
Psalms 40:1
(39-1) <Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.> (39-2) With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.
Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isaiah 26:8
And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.

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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