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1 Samuel 8

1 Sam. 8:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And it came to pass, when Samuel
Shmuw'el (Hebrew #8050)
heard of God; Shemuel, the name of three Israelites
KJV usage: Samuel, Shemuel.
Pronounce: sehm-oo-ale'
Origin: from the passive participle of 8085 and 410
was old
zaqen (Hebrew #2204)
to be old
KJV usage: aged man, be (wax) old (man).
Pronounce: zaw-kane'
Origin: a primitive root
, that he made
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
his sons
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
judges
shaphat (Hebrew #8199)
to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: + avenge, X that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a) judge(-ment), X needs, plead, reason, rule.
Pronounce: shaw-fat'
Origin: a primitive root
over Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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Israel,
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Ministry on This Verse

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1-5:  By occasion of the ill government of Samuel's sons, the Israelites ask a king.
6-9:  Samuel praying in grief, is comforted by God.
10-18:  He tells the manner of a king.
19-22:  God wills Samuel to yield unto the importunity of the people.
A.M. 2892.
B.C.
1112.
An. Ex. Is. 379.
made his.
Deut. 16:18‑19• 18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
 19Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. (Deut. 16:18‑19)
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Judg. 8:22‑23• 22Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.
 23And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the Lord shall rule over you. (Judg. 8:22‑23)
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2 Chron. 19:5‑6• 5And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
 6And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment. (2 Chron. 19:5‑6)
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Neh. 7:2• 2That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many. (Neh. 7:2)
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1 Tim. 5:21• 21I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality. (1 Tim. 5:21)
sons judges.
Judg. 5:10• 10Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. (Judg. 5:10)
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Judg. 10:4• 4And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. (Judg. 10:4)
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Judg. 12:14• 14And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. (Judg. 12:14)
• Let us remember that the people belonged to God, not to Samuel. Do we sometimes feel anxious about the future of those among whom we labor? Are we disposed to make provision for them according to our own thoughts? (“Well Meaning but Mistaken” by W.W. Fereday)
• We have already seen that it was God's intention to give Israel a king, and apparently Samuel might have continued to serve the people until David—the man of the Lord's choice—was ready to occupy the throne. (“Well Meaning but Mistaken” by W.W. Fereday)
• But faith is not transmitted by succession. Samuel could not make prophets of his sons. (“1 Samuel 8-10” by J.N. Darby)
• He makes his sons judges without any direction from the Lord, as though the function that God had entrusted to him could be transmitted to others, for there is no transmission of gifts or even of charges by succession. (“1 Samuel 8” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it came to pass when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.