1 Samuel 8:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. ”

1 Samuel 8:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8. Demand for a King. Opening section, continued 1 Samuel 10:17 , of later account of Saul's appointment as king: either Deuteronomic or late stratum of E. Probably 1 Samuel 10:17-19 a...
1 Samuel 8:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1 Samuel 8:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. He will take your daughters to be confectionaries. Cookery, baking, and the kindred works, are, in Ea...
1 Samuel 8:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The People demand a King 1. Judges] They would be subordinate to their father. When the son of a Judge was influential and popular, he might easily succeed to his father's position: cp. A bimelech...
1 Samuel 8:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Confectionaries. — Better rendered perfumers — that is, makers of ointments and scents, of which Orientals are inordinately fond.
1 Samuel 8:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER X. THE PEOPLE DEMAND A KING. 1 Samuel 8:1-22 . WHATEVER impression the "Ebenezer" of Samuel may have produced at the time, it passed away with the lapse of years. The feeling that, in...
1 Samuel 8:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Rejecting the Prophet's Warning 1 Samuel 8:10-22 The people had entreated Samuel to cry unto God in their behalf; and now we see him going to and fro between the people and God, as a true media...
1 Samuel 8:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This first Book of Samuel at this point merges into its second division, which has to do with Saul. First we have the account of the clamor of the people for a king and the divine answer thereto. The...
1 Samuel 8:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(10) And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. (11) And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and a...
1 Samuel 8:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries ,.... Such as deal in spices, and mix them, and make them up in various forms very agreeable to the taste. Men are commonly in our countries and...
1 Samuel 8:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he will take your daughters [to be] confectionaries, and [to be] cooks, and [to be] bakers. Ver. 13. And he will take your daughters. ] Whereat you may fret, but cannot help it. “ Vanae sine...
1 Samuel 8:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He will take your daughters , &c. He will exercise as arbitrary a power over the women as over the men; whom he will make to serve in such employments as he shall think fit; either for nothing,...
1 Samuel 8:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

However, old age often brings weariness with it. The time comes when Samuel considers it necessary to have others as judges in the land, and it was quite natural (not spiritual) that he should give t...
1 Samuel 8:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The People Desire a King; God's Answer to Israel; The People Insist on Having a King. B. C. 1075....
1 Samuel 8:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Which would be more grievous to their parents, and more dangerous to themselves, because of the tenderness of that sex, and liableness to many injuries.
1 Samuel 8:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH's Response To Their Call For A King Was To Warn Them What Having A King Might Mean For Them ( 1 Samuel 8:7-22 ). It is typical of sinful human beings that they did not recognise that having a...
1 Samuel 8:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 8:5 . “Make us a king to judge us like all the nations.” “This request resembles so completely the law of the king in Deuteronomy 17:14 , that the disti...
1 Samuel 8:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 8:3 . His sons walked not as their father, who always came into court with clean hands. Seeking to aggrandize their families they took bribes, and by consequence perverted judgment. The h...
1 Samuel 8:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION SAUL ( CHS . 8-31). THE great interest of the First Book of Samuel lies in the fact that we have in it the orderly consolidation of two of the main factors in the preparation for...
1 Samuel 8:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Disadvantages Set Forth to the People
1 Samuel 8:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 8:13
1 Samuel 8:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Daughters — Which would be more grievous to their parents, and more dangerous to themselves, because of the tenderness of that sex, and their liableness to many injuries.

1 Samuel 8:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 8:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 8:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 8:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 8:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Samuel 8:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 8:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 8:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 8:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 8:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 8:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 8:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Samuel 8:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 8:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes