1 Samuel 8
NASB1995
Commentaries

Show in the text

Up to 5 commentaries at a time. Each excerpt opens in full.

ModeStrong’s numbers

New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Samuel 8:14-22

141He will takeH3947 the bestH2896 of your fieldsH7704 and your vineyardsH3754 and your oliveH2132 grovesH2132 and giveH5414 them to his servantsH5650. 15He will takeH6237 a tenthH6237 of your seedH2233 and of your vineyardsH3754 and giveH5414 to his officersH5631 and to his servantsH5650. 16He will also takeH3947 your maleH5650 servantsH5650 and your femaleH8198 servantsH8198 and your bestH2896 youngH970 menH970 and your donkeysH2543 and 2useH6213 them for his workH4399. 17He will takeH6237 a tenthH6237 of your flocksH6629, and you yourselvesH864 will becomeH1961 his servantsH5650. 18Then 3you will cryH2199 out in that dayH3117 becauseH4480H6440 of your kingH4428 whomH834 you have chosenH977 for yourselves, but 4the LordH3068 will not answerH6030 you in that dayH3117.”

19Nevertheless, the peopleH5971 5refusedH3985 to listenH8085 to the voiceH6963 of SamuelH8050, and they saidH559, “NoH3808, but there shall be a kingH4428 overH5921 us, 206that we alsoH1571 may be like allH3605 the nationsH1471, that our kingH4428 may judgeH8199 us and goH3318 out beforeH6440 us and fightH3898 our battlesH4421.” 21Now after SamuelH8050 had heardH8085 allH3605 the wordsH1697 of the peopleH5971, 7he repeatedH1696 them in the Lord’sH3068 hearingH241. 22The LordH3068 saidH559 to SamuelH8050, “8ListenH8085 to their voiceH6963 and 9appointH4427 them a kingH4428.” So SamuelH8050 saidH559 to the menH376 of IsraelH3478, “GoH1980 everyH376 manH376 to his cityH5892.”

Read all of 1 Samuel 8

Notes

  1. 1. 1 Samuel 8:14 1 Kin 21:7; Ezek 46:18 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Samuel 8:16 Lit make ↩
  3. 3. 1 Samuel 8:18 Is 8:21 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Samuel 8:18 Prov 1:25-28; Is 1:15; Mic 3:4 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Samuel 8:19 Is 66:4; Jer 44:16 ↩
  6. 6. 1 Samuel 8:20 1 Sam 8:5 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Samuel 8:21 Judg 11:11 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Samuel 8:22 1 Sam 8:7 ↩
  9. 9. 1 Samuel 8:22 Lit cause a king to reign for them ↩

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 8

New American Standard Bible 1995 — © 1960–1995 The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.