You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
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You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
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And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
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And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.'
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Passages linked to 1 Samuel 8:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Micah 3:4 Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
- Proverbs 1:25-28 but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof; I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you, when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you. Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
- Isaiah 1:15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
- Isaiah 8:21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,
- Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
- Psalms 18:41 They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
- Proverbs 21:13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
- Luke 13:25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Because ye repent not for your sins, but because…
Because ye repent not for your sins, but because ye smart for your afflictions, whereinto ye cast yourselves willingly.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 8:18 And ye shall cry out in that…
1Sa 8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
Ver. 18. And ye shall cry out.] As the Romans once did of Marius and Sulla, that the remedy was worse than the disease.
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And the Lord will not hear you,] viz., To change your monarchy again into an aristocracy, your kings into judges.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Ye shall cry out in that day; ye shall…
Ye shall cry out in that day; ye shall bitterly mourn for the sad effects of this inordinate desire of a king.
The Lord will not hear you in that day, because you will not hear him, nor obey his counsel, in this day. Compare Pro 1:24, &c. Zec 7:13.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And ye shall cry out in that day, because…
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 Hos 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:
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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.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Cry out - Ye shall bitterly mourn for the…
Cry out - Ye shall bitterly mourn for the sad effects of this inordinate desire of a king. Will not hear - Because you will not hear, nor obey his counsel in this day.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The face, privately; for even groans will not be…
The face, privately; for even groans will not be free. (Menochius) --- The event justified this prediction, as most of the kings of the Hebrews ruled like tyrants, and what was worse, engaged their subjects in idolatry, and drew down the heaviest judgments upon them. (Calmet) --- Hear you, so as to deliver you from oppression, though he is always willing to hear those who truly repent. (Worthington)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 18. Ye shall cry out in that day —…
18. Ye shall cry out in that day — By this dark picture of regal prerogative Samuel hopes that the people will withdraw their request for a king like those of the nations.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. because of your king] Or, “from your king,”…
18. because of your king] Or, “from your king,” appealing to God to escape from his tyranny.
will not hear you] Rather, will not answer you. The Sept adds “because ye have chosen yourselves a king.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (18) The Lord will not hear you in that…
(18) The Lord will not hear you in that day.—After the separation of the north and the south, when King Solomon was dead, a large proportion of the northern sovereigns—or kings, as they were called, of “Israel,” in distinction to the southern monarchs, the kings of “Judah”—fulfilled in their lives and government of the realm the dark forebodings of the seer. The northern tribes broke with all the hallowed associations connected with the Ark and temple, and set up a rival and semi-idolatrous religion in some of their own popular centres. There no holy influences swayed the councils of their despotic kings. The lives of the Israelites who still loved the law of the Lord, and cherished the glorious memories of their fathers, must have been very bitter and hard when men like Omri and Ahab reigned with all their cruel power in Tirzah and Samaria.
But no prayers then availed; one wicked dynasty succeeded another, until the cup of iniquity was filled, and Israel carried away captive for ever out of their fair land.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Ye shall cry. In despair at this cruel oppression…
Ye shall cry. In despair at this cruel oppression ye shall appeal to Jehovah, but in vain. The king was given them at their own request, persisted in even after warning, and they must abide by their choice. It is worth noting that in the northern kingdom a majority of the kings more or less fulfilled Samuel"s evil forebodings, and there they were much more completely the product of the temper condemned by the prophet than they were in Judah. The ten tribes roughly snapped the tie which bound them to Jehovah; they discarded the ark and all the services of the sanctuary, and were content with so poor an imitation of them that all piously disposed men were compelled to abandon their lands and migrate into Judaea; (2Ch_11:16) and so the majority of their kings, not being held in check by religious influences, were tyrants. At Jerusalem, on the contrary, most of them were content to remain within the limits of the Mosaic law, and were upon the whole a series of men far superior, not merely to the judges and the monarchs in old time, but to any European dynasty.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 8:18 The people would beg for relief as their…
8:18 The people would beg for relief as their ancestors had done in Egypt under another punishing and exacting ruler (see Exod 3:7).
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