1 Samuel 8:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. ”

1 Samuel 8:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See illustrations in marginal references; 1 Kings 5:13-18 ; 1 Kings 12:4 .
1 Samuel 8:16 - 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 8:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

young men . Septuagint reads "oxen".
1 Samuel 8:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
1 Samuel 8:16 - 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 8:16 - 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 8:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And your goodliest young men. — The LXX. Greek Version here reads, “your best oxen,” which required only the change of one letter of similar sound in the Hebrew word here. This was, no doubt,. the...
1 Samuel 8:16 - 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 8:16 - 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 8:16 - 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 8:16 - 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 8:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he will take your manservants, and your maidservants ,.... Into his own family, for his own use and service, if he wants them, or likes them better than what he has: and your goodliest young m...
1 Samuel 8:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work. Ver. 16. And he will take your men-servants. ] Nero's word to hi...
1 Samuel 8:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He will take your men-servants By constraint, and without sufficient recompense. Your goodliest young men The most beautiful and proper person she can find; and your asses, and put them to his w...
1 Samuel 8:16 - 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 8:16 - 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 8:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By constraint, and without sufficient recompense
1 Samuel 8:16 - 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 8:16 - 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 8:16 - 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 8:16 - 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 8:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Disadvantages Set Forth to the People
1 Samuel 8:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 8:16
1 Samuel 8:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Will take — By constraint, and without sufficient recompense.

1 Samuel 8:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Samuel 8:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 8:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 8:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 8:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 8:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Samuel 8:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 8:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 8:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 8:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 8:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 8:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 8:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Samuel 8:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 8:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes