Daniel 1:18; Daniel 1:3; Daniel 1:7-10; Genesis 37:36; Isaiah 39:7
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...
your vineyards . Compare 1 Kings 21:7 .
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to 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 verse...
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 easil...
Officers ] Heb. 'eunuchs.' See on 1 Samuel 9:1 . There are clearly two accounts of the institution of the kingship. In 1 Samuel 8 , the wish for...
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 a...
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 a...
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 pe...
(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 s...
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 t...
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 ten...
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...
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 q...
The People Desire a King; God's Answer to Israel; The People Insist on Having a King. B. C....
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...
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 huma...
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...
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 br...
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...
The Disadvantages Set Forth to the People
And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, the eunuchs of the Oriental courts, and to his servants.
The tenth — Besides the several tenths which God hath reserved for his service, he will, when he pleaseth, impose another tenth upon you. Officers...
15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers,c and to his servants.