1 Samuel 8:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers,c and to his servants. ”

1 Samuel 8:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See illustrations in marginal references; 1 Kings 5:13-18 ; 1 Kings 12:4 .
1 Samuel 8:15 - 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 8:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

your vineyards . Compare 1 Kings 21:7 .
1 Samuel 8:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. No JFB commentary on these verses.
1 Samuel 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he will take the tenth of your seed ,.... When grown up and ripe, as their wheat and barley: and of your vineyards ; the tenth of the grapes they should produce: and give to his officers, an...
1 Samuel 8:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. Ver. 15. And he will take the tenth of your seed. ] Violently, and not by order of...
1 Samuel 8:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He will take your fields By fraud or force, as Ahab did from Naboth. And give them to his servants He will not only take the fruits of your lands for his own use, but will take away your possessi...
1 Samuel 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He will take the tenth: besides the several tenths which God hath reserved for his service and servants, he will, when he pleaseth, impose another tenth upon you. To his officers, Heb. to his eu...
1 Samuel 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - 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 8:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Disadvantages Set Forth to the People
1 Samuel 8:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 1:18 ; Daniel 1:3 ; Daniel 1:7-10 ; Genesis 37:36 ; Isaiah 39:7
1 Samuel 8:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The tenth — Besides the several tenths which God hath reserved for his service, he will, when he pleaseth, impose another tenth upon you. Officers — Heb. To his eunuchs, which may imply a farther i...

1 Samuel 8:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Samuel 8:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 8:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 8:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 8:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 8:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Samuel 8:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 8:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 8:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 8:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 8:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 8:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 8:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Samuel 8:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 8:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes