1Sa 8:11-18, 1Ki 4:7, 20, 22-23, 25, 9:15, 22-23, 2Ch 10:4-5, Mat 11:29-30 | TSK | STEP

1 Samuel 8:11-18

This will.

10:25; De 17:14-20

He will take.

14:52; 1Ki 9:22,23; 10:26; 12:4,10; 2Ch 26:10-15

run.

2Sa 15:1; 1Ki 1:5; 18:46

appoint.

1Ch 27:1-22

and will set.

1Ki 4:7,22,23,27,28; 2Ch 32:28,29

22:7; 1Ki 21:7,19; Eze 46:18

officers. Heb. eunuchs.

Ge 37:36; Isa 39:7; Da 1:3,7-10,18

cry out.

Isa 8:21

and the Lord."Hitherto," says Puffendorf, "the people of Israel had lived under governors raised up by God, who had exacted no tribute of them, nor put them to any charge; but little content with this form of government, they desire to have a king like other nations, who should live in magnificence and pomp, keep armies, and be able to resist any invasion. Samuel informs them what it was they desired; that, when they understood it, they might consider whether they would persist in their choice. If they would have a king splendidly attended, he tells them that he would take their sons for his chariots, etc.: if they would have him keep up constant forces, then he would appoint them for colonels and captains, and employ those in his wars who were accustomed to follow their family business; and since, after the manner of other kings, he must keep a stately court, they must be content that their daughters should serve in several offices, which the king would think below the dignity of his wives and daughters. (ver. 13.) In one word, that, to sustain his dignity, their king would exact the tenth of all they possessed, and be maintained in a royal manner out of their estates."

will not hear.

Job 27:9; Ps 18:41; Pr 1:25-28; 21:13; Isa 1:15; Mic 3:4; Lu 13:25

1 Kings 4:7

officers.These are doubtless to be considered as general receivers; for, as Sir John Chardin observes, "the revenues of the princes of the East are paid in the fruits and productions of the earth: there are no other taxes on the peasants."

each man.

1Ch 27:1-15

1 Kings 4:20

as the sand.

3:8; Ge 13:16; 15:5; 22:17; Pr 14:28

eating.

1Sa 30:16; 1Ch 12:39; Job 1:18; Ps 72:3-7; Ec 2:24; Isa 22:13

Mic 4:4; Zec 3:10; 9:15; Ac 2:46

1 Kings 4:22-23

provision. Heb. bread. measures. Heb. cors.

Ten fat.

Ne 5:17,18

harts.Dr. Shaw understands {ayil} as the name of the genus, including all the species of the deer kind, whether they are distinguished by round horns, as the stag, or by flat ones, as the fallow deer, or by the smallness of the branches, as the roe.

roe-bucks.See note on De 15:22.

fallow-deer.{Yachmur,} rendered {bubalus} by the Vulgate, probably the buffalo; and though "the flesh of a buffalo does not seem so well tasted as beef, being harder and more coarse," yet in our times, "persons of distinction, as well as the common people, and even the European merchants, eat a good deal of it, in the countries where that animal abounds." Niebuhr, Descrip. de l'Arab p. 146.

1 Kings 4:25

safely. Heb. confidently.

Isa 60:18; Jer 23:5,6; 33:15,16; Eze 38:11; *marg:

every man.

2Ki 18:31; Mic 4:4; Zec 3:10

from Dan.

Jud 20:1; 2Sa 17:11; 24:15

1 Kings 9:15

A.M. 2989-3029. B.C. 1015-975. the reason.

21; 5:13

to build.

10; 6:38; 7:1; 2Ch 8:1

Millo.Millo is said to have been a deep valley, between the ancient city of Jebus and the city of David on mount Zion. This Solomon filled up, and built upon; and it became a fortified place, and a place for public assemblies.

24; 11:27; Jud 9:6,20; 2Sa 5:9; 2Ki 12:20

the wall.

Ps 51:18

Hazor.Probably the city Hazor in Naphtali, and the famous capital of Jabin, situated in the lake Merom or Semechon, and placed by Josephus south of Tyre, near Ptolemais.

Jos 11:1; 19:36; Jud 4:2; 2Ki 15:29

Megiddo.

4:12; Jos 17:11; Jud 5:19; 2Ki 9:27; 23:29,30; 2Ch 35:22; Zec 12:11

Gezer.

16,17; Jos 10:33; 16:10; 21:21; Jud 1:29; 1Ch 6:67; 20:4