1 Samuel 8:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, ”

1 Samuel 8:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto (c) Ramah, (c) For there his house was, ( 1 Samuel 7:17 ).
1 Samuel 8:4 - 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 8:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
1 Samuel 8:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together. This was evidently the general council o...
1 Samuel 8:4 - 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 8:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

All the elders of Israel. — We have here a clear trace of a popular assembly which seems in all times to have existed in Israel. Such a body appears to have met for deliberation even during the Egy...
1 Samuel 8:4 - 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 8:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Seeking a King like Other Nations 1 Samuel 8:1-9 The sin that Samuel, as a lad, rebuked in Eli, reappeared in his own family and undermined his influence. The names of Samuel's sons are suggest...
1 Samuel 8:4 - 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 8:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) В¶ Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, (5) And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to...
1 Samuel 8:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

WANTED—A KING! ‘Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel unto Ramah, and said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy way; now make us a k...
1 Samuel 8:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together ,.... At some place of rendezvous appointed; these were the heads of the tribes, and fathers of the houses and families of Israel, the prin...
1 Samuel 8:4 - 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 8:4 - 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 8:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The elders; either for age, or dignity and power.
1 Samuel 8:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The People Seek For The Appointment of a King Over Them ( 1 Samuel 8:1-6 ). Outwardly the desire of the elders for a king appears reasonable, but what they ignored was the fact that once there was...
1 Samuel 8:4 - 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 8:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 8:4-8 The Book of Kings is also the Book of Samuel, not merely because the individual man was the last of the judges and poured the anointing oil upon the first two of the kings, but beca...
1 Samuel 8:4 - 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 8:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. Parental trials The best sometimes meet with the bitterest disappointment, and their grey hairs are brought d...
1 Samuel 8:4 - 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 8:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Samuel Displeased at the Insistent DesiRev. 1. And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel, the increasing infirmities of old age prompting him to take this...
1 Samuel 8:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 5:3 ; Exodus 24:1 ; Exodus 3:16

1 Samuel 8:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Samuel 8:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 8:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 8:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 8:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 8:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 8:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 8:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 8:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 8:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 8:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 8:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 8:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 8:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Samuel 8:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 8:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Samuel 8:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge