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1 Samuel 8:3

Listen to 1 Samuel 8:3
3 Aber seine Söhne wandelten nicht in seinem Wege, sondern neigten sich zum Geiz und nahmen Geschenke und beugten das Recht.

1 Samuel 8:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways
The meaning of which is not that they did not go the circuit he did, which is too low a sense of the words some Jewish writers give; but they did not walk in the fear of God, in the paths of religion and righteousness, truth and holiness; they neither served God, nor did justice to men, as Samuel had done:

but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment;
indulged to covetousness, sought to get riches at any rate, took bribes, which blind the eyes of judges; and so passed wrong judgment, and gave the cause to those that gave the largest gifts, right or wrong.

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1 Samuel 8:3 In-Context

1 Da aber Samuel alt ward, setzte er seine Söhne zu Richtern über Israel.
2 Sein erstgeborener Sohn hieß Joel und der andere Abia, und sie waren Richter zu Beer-Seba. {~}
3 Aber seine Söhne wandelten nicht in seinem Wege, sondern neigten sich zum Geiz und nahmen Geschenke und beugten das Recht.
4 Da versammelten sich alle Ältesten in Israel und kamen gen Rama zu Samuel
5 und sprachen zu ihm: Siehe, du bist alt geworden, und deine Söhne wandeln nicht in deinen Wegen; so setze nun einen König über uns, der uns richte, wie alle Heiden haben.
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