2 Samuel 5:3; Exodus 24:1; Exodus 3:16
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. Demand for a King. Opening section, continued 1 Samuel 10:17 , of later account of Saul's appointment as king: either Deuteronomic or...
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves...
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...
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 appear...
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...
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...
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...
(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 th...
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,...
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together ,.... At some place of rendezvous appointed; these were the heads of the tribes, and fath...
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....
The elders; either for age, or dignity and power.
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...
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 8:4-8 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 anoin...
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...
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...
Make us a king to judge us like all the nations. Making a king As a matter of public notoriety, Samuel’s sons were not like Samuel himself in t...
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...
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...
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel unto Ramah, as a delegation representing the whole people,
4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,