Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 8:6

6 Sǎmǔĕr bù xǐyuè tāmen shuō lì yī gè wáng zhìlǐ wǒmen , tā jiù dǎogào Yēhéhuá .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 8:6 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 8:6

But the thing displeased Samuel
Not that they called him an old man, and suggested that he was incapacitated for his office, nor for observing the unbecoming walk of his sons, but for what follows:

when they said, give us a king to judge us;
what displeased him was, that they were for changing their form of government, not only to remove it from him, and his sons, but from the Lord himself, who was king over them; the ill consequences of which, many of them at least, he easily foresaw, and which gave him great uneasiness, both on account of the glory of God, and their own good; insomuch, as Josephus ^F25 says, he could neither eat nor sleep, but watched all night, and spent it in prayer, as follows:

and Samuel prayed unto the Lord;
to know his mind and will, and what answer he should return unto them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 6. c. 3.) sect. 3.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 8:6 In-Context

4 Yǐsèliè de zhǎnglǎo dōu jùjí , lái dào Lāmǎ jiàn Sǎmǔĕr ,

5 Duì tā shuō , nǐ niánjì lǎomaì le , nǐ érzi bù xíng nǐde dào . xiànzaì qiú nǐ wèi wǒmen lì yī gè wáng zhìlǐ wǒmen , xiàng liè guó yíyàng .

6 Sǎmǔĕr bù xǐyuè tāmen shuō lì yī gè wáng zhìlǐ wǒmen , tā jiù dǎogào Yēhéhuá .

7 Yēhéhuá duì Sǎmǔĕr shuō , bǎixìng xiàng nǐ shuō de yīqiè huà , nǐ zhǐguǎn yīcóng . yīnwei tāmen bú shì yànqì nǐ , nǎi shì yànqì wǒ , búyào wǒ zuò tāmende wáng .

8 Zì cóng wǒ lǐng tāmen chū Āijí dào rújīn , tāmen chángcháng lí qì wǒ , shìfèng bié shén . xiànzaì tāmen xiàng nǐ suǒ xíng de , shì zhào tāmen sùlái suǒ xíng de .