1 Samuel 8:18

18 Cuando llegue ese día, suplicarán ser aliviados de este rey que ahora piden, pero entonces el Señor
no los ayudará.

1 Samuel 8:18 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 8:18

And ye shall cry out in that day, because of your king
His power and pride, his oppression and tyranny, his heavy exactions, and intolerable yoke, and yet not be able to free themselves from them; all that they could do would be only to cry out under them as grievously distressed, and not knowing how to help themselves; and which would be the more aggravated, because they brought all this upon themselves, as it follows:

which ye shall have chosen you;
for though the choice of a king for them, at a proper time, God had reserved to himself, yet in later times, as is here suggested, they would choose for themselves, and did, see ( Hosea 8:4 ) besides, to have a king in general was at first their own choice, though the particular person was by the designation of the Lord:

and the Lord will not hear you in that day;
will not regard them, have no compassion on them, suffer them to remain under their oppressions, and not deliver them out of them; because they rejected him from being their King, and put themselves out of his protection, into the hands of another, and therefore it was just to leave them to their own choice.

1 Samuel 8:18 In-Context

16 Les quitará sus esclavos y esclavas, y les exigirá lo mejor de sus ganados
y burros para su propio uso.

17 Les exigirá la décima parte de sus rebaños, y ustedes serán sus esclavos.

18 Cuando llegue ese día, suplicarán ser aliviados de este rey que ahora piden, pero entonces el Señor
no los ayudará.

19 Sin embargo, el pueblo se negó a escuchar la advertencia de Samuel.
—Aun así, todavía queremos un rey —dijeron ellos—.

20 Nuestro deseo es ser como las naciones que nos rodean. El rey nos juzgará y será nuestro líder en las batallas.