1 Samuel 8:1

Webster's Bible (1833)

It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

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  • Deut 16:18-19 : 18 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
  • 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I charge you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
  • Judg 5:10 : 10 Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, You who sit on rich carpets, You who walk by the way.
  • Judg 8:22-23 : 22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule you over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian. 23 Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: Yahweh shall rule over you.
  • Judg 10:4 : 4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
  • Judg 12:14 : 14 He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
  • 2 Chr 19:5-6 : 5 He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, 6 and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.
  • Neh 7:2 : 2 that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

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  • 1 Sam 8:2-11
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    2Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba.

    3His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

    4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;

    5and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

    6But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

    7Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

    8According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.

    9Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.

    10Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.

    11He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

  • 1 Sam 7:15-16
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    15Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

    16He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

  • 1 Sam 12:1-2
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    1Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.

    2Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

  • 1 Sam 8:21-22
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    72%

    21Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.

    22Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go you every man to his city.

  • 1 Chr 23:1
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    1Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 1:20
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    20It happened, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 6:27-28
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    27Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.

    28The sons of Samuel: the firstborn [Joel], and the second Abijah.

  • Acts 13:20-21
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    20After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

    21Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

  • 1 Sam 2:21-22
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    21Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

    22Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting.

  • 1 Sam 3:1-3
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    1The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. The word of Yahweh was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.

    2It happened at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),

    3and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down [to sleep], in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was;

  • 1 Sam 17:12
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    12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.

  • 1 Sam 15:10
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    10Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying,

  • 1 Sam 16:10
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    10Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.

  • 1 Chr 11:3
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    3So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by Samuel.

  • 1 Sam 3:20
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    20All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.

  • Judg 2:19
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    19But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.

  • 1 Sam 15:1
    68%

    1Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice of the words of Yahweh.

  • Judg 12:14
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    14He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

  • Judg 12:8-9
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    8After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

    9He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.

  • 1 Sam 15:17
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    17Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

  • 1 Sam 12:6
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    6Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

  • 1 Sam 16:4
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    4Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Come you peaceably?

  • 1 Sam 2:25-26
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    25If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.

    26The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.

  • 1 Sam 9:14-15
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    14They went up to the city; [and] as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.

    15Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

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    6It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.

  • 1 Sam 10:1
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    1Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, Isn't it that Yahweh has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

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    19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No: but we will have a king over us,

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    16Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. He said, Here am I.

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    8It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

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    5Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to Yahweh.