1 Samuel 8:3

1 Kings 12:6-11; 1 Timothy 3:3; 1 Timothy 6:10; 2 Kings 21:1-3; 2 Samuel 15:4; Deuteronomy 16:19; Ecclesiastes 2:19; Exodus 18:21; Isaiah 33:15; Jeremiah 22:15-17; Psalms 15:5; Psalms 26:10

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 8:3

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

turned aside, &c.: i.e. stooped to extortion. took bribes: contrary to Deuteronomy 16:19 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. His sons walked not in his ways - Their i...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And his sons walked not in his ways— Eli was punished for the wickedness of his sons, but Samuel was not; because it does not appear that the crime...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. His sons walked not in his ways. T...
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 easil...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Took bribes, and perverted judgment. — This sin, at all times a fatally common one in the East, was especially denounced in the Law. (See Exodus 2...
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 a...
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...
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 pe...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(2) Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were Judges in Beersheba. (3) And his sons walked not in his ways...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And his sons walked not in his ways ,.... The meaning of which is not that they did not go the circuit he did, which is too low a sense of the words...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. Ver. 3. And his sons walked not in his...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Took bribes Opportunity and temptation discovered that corruption in them which, till now, was hid from their father, and, it may be, from themselv...
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 q...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Wickedness of Samuel's Sons. B. C. 1075....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Opportunity and temptation drew forth and discovered the corruption in them, which till now was hid from their father, and, it may be, from themselve...
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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 8:1 . “When Samuel was old.” Many expositors consider that he was now about sixty years of age, others...
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 br...
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...
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...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And his sons walked not in his ways, they did not follow the pious example of their father, but turned aside after lucre, they were covetous, avari...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Took bribes — Opportunity and temptation discovered that corruption in them which 'till now was hid from their father. It has often been the grief...

³ And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 8:3

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

1 Samuel 8:3