1 Samuel 8:18

Contextual Overview

⁴So all the elders of Israel gathered together and went to Samuel at Ramah. ⁴ Then all the Zakenim of Yisra'el gathered themselves together, and came to Shemu'el to Ramah; ⁴ Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, ⁴ So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. ⁴ Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah ⁴ So all the elders came together and met Samuel at Ramah. ⁴ So all the elders of Israel gathered together and approached Samuel at Ramah. ⁴Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah ⁴ Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; ⁴ Wherefore all the Elders of Israel gathered them together, and came to Samuel vnto Ramah,

Bible Verse Review
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cry out: Isaiah 8:21

and the Lord: "Hitherto," says Puffendorf, "the people of Israel had lived under governors raised up by God, who had exacted no tribute of them, nor put them to any charge; but little content with this form of government, they desire to have a king like other nations, who should live in magnificence and pomp, keep armies, and be able to resist any invasion. Samuel informs them what it was they desired; that, when they understood it, they might consider whether they would persist in their choice. If they would have a king splendidly attended, he tells them that he would take their sons for his chariots, etc.: if they would have him keep up constant forces, then he would appoint them for colonels and captains, and employ those in his wars who were accustomed to follow their family business; and since, after the manner of other kings, he must keep a stately court, they must be content that their daughters should serve in several offices, which the king would think below the dignity of his wives and daughters - 1 Samuel 8:13. In one word, that, to sustain his dignity, their king would exact the tenth of all they possessed, and be maintained in a royal manner out of their estates."

will not hear: Job 27:9, Psalms 18:41, Proverbs 1:25-28, Proverbs 21:13, Isaiah 1:15, Micah 3:4, Luke 13:25

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:11 - I will add 2 Chronicles 10:11 - I will put

Cross-References

Psalms 121:8
The Lord will protect your coming and goingboth now and forever.

Psalms 121:8
The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in, From this time forth, and forevermore.

Psalms 121:8
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

Psalms 121:8
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.

Psalms 121:8
The Lord will guard you as you come and go, both now and forever.

Psalms 121:8
The Lord will protect you in all you do, now and forevermore.

Psalms 121:8
The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in [everything that you do] From this time forth and forever.

Psalms 121:8
The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in From this time and forever.

Psalms 121:8
Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, From this time forth, and forevermore.

Psalms 121:8
The Lorde shall preserue thy going out, and thy comming in from henceforth & for euer.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall cry out in that day, because of your king,.... His power and pride, his oppression and tyranny, his heavy exactions, and intolerable yoke, and yet not be able to free themselves from them; all that they could do would be only to cry out under them as grievously distressed, and not knowing how to help themselves; and which would be the more aggravated, because they brought all this upon themselves, as it follows:

which ye shall have chosen you; for though the choice of a king for them, at a proper time, God had reserved to himself, yet in later times, as is here suggested, they would choose for themselves, and did, see Hosea 8:4 besides, to have a king in general was at first their own choice, though the particular person was by the designation of the Lord:

and the Lord will not hear you in that day; will not regard them, have no compassion on them, suffer them to remain under their oppressions, and not deliver them out of them; because they rejected him from being their King, and put themselves out of his protection, into the hands of another, and therefore it was just to leave them to their own choice.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See illustrations in marginal references; 1 Kings 5:13-18; 1 Kings 12:4.