1 Samuele 8:18

18 E in quel giorno voi griderete per cagione del vostro re, che vi avrete eletto; ma il Signore allora non vi esaudirà.

1 Samuele 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 Samuele 8:18 In-Context

16 Piglierà eziandio i vostri servi, e le vostre serve, e il fior de’ vostri giovani, e i vostri asini, e li adopererà al suo lavoro.

17 Egli prenderà la decima delle vostre gregge; e voi gli sarete servi.

18 E in quel giorno voi griderete per cagione del vostro re, che vi avrete eletto; ma il Signore allora non vi esaudirà.

19 Ma il popolo ricusò di ascoltar le parole di Samuele, e disse: No; anzi vi sarà un re sopra noi.

20 E noi ancora saremo come tutte le altre genti; e il nostro re ci giudicherà, e uscirà davanti a noi, e condurrà le nostre guerre.