1 Samuel 8:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

He will appoint him captains. In the East a person must accept any office to which he may be nominated by the king, however irksome it may be to his taste or ruinous to his interests.

1 Samuel 8:12

12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.