“ He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. ”
See illustrations in marginal references; 1 Kings 5:13-18 ; 1 Kings 12:4 .
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...
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
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.
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...
And ye shall be his servants. — This statement generally includes all that has gone before. In other words, “Ye elders and chiefs of the people must make up your minds, in the event of electing a k...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
He will take the tenth of your sheep ,.... As well as of their seed and vineyards; and not the tithe of their flocks only, but of their herds also, which are here included, as Kimchi observes: and...
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. Ver. 17. And ye shall be his servants. ] His slaves to do his drudgery, more like peasants of France than yeomen of Kent, as he...
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...
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...
The People Desire a King; God's Answer to Israel; The People Insist on Having a King. B. C. 1075....
i.e. He shall use you like slaves, and deprive you of that liberty which you now enjoy.
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...
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 8:3 . 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...
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...
The Disadvantages Set Forth to the People
His servants — That is, he will use you like slaves, and deprive you of that liberty which now you enjoy.