1 Samuel 8:11
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
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Gill's Exposition
And he said, this will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you,.... Not in which he ought to proceed, but what he will do: and this not the manner of one king, or of the first only, but of…
We have here the starting of a matter perfectly new and surprising, which was the setting up of kingly government in Israel. Perhaps the thing had been often talked of among them by those that were…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
This will be the manner of the king Or, "the right of the king;" such prerogatives as an absolute monarch claims.
We have here a vivid picture of the tyranny of an Oriental despot whose subjects are…
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