the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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1 Samuel 8:11
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This will: 1 Samuel 10:25, Deuteronomy 17:14-20
He will take: 1 Samuel 14:52, 1 Kings 9:22, 1 Kings 9:23, 1 Kings 10:26, 1 Kings 12:4, 1 Kings 12:10, 2 Chronicles 26:10-15
run: 2 Samuel 15:1, 1 Kings 1:5, 1 Kings 18:46
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 17:16 - multiply horses 1 Samuel 8:9 - the manner 1 Samuel 13:2 - chose 1 Samuel 22:7 - captains 1 Samuel 22:17 - footmen 1 Kings 14:27 - guard 2 Chronicles 8:9 - they were men 2 Chronicles 10:4 - Thy father Jeremiah 17:25 - riding
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Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.
And he stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return again to him anymore.
Seven days later he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not come back.
He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.
And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; which returned not again to him any more.
He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove, but she did not return to him again.
and neuerthelesse he abood seuene othere daies, and sente out a culuer, which turnede `no more ayen to hym.
And he stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more.
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 all of them, more or less; of kings in general, who are commonly inclined to arbitrary power. So Aristotle a in opposition to theocracy, describes a full and absolute kingdom, as he calls it, when a king does all things according to his will: and observes, that he that would have the mind or reason preside, would have God and the laws rule; but he that would have a man to reign, adds also a lust, or one led by his own lust: so it follows,
he will take your sons, and appoint them for himself; for his own use and service, to wait upon him, to be his pages, or grooms, or guards:
for his chariots; to take care of them, and drive them, though not without paying them for it; yet this being but a mean and servile employment, and what they should be obliged to, whether they would or no, is observed to show the tyranny and bondage to which they would be subject, when their sons otherwise might be free men, and possessed of estates and carriages of their own:
and to be his horsemen; or rather "for his horses", to take care of them, and go out along with him, and attend his person, whether when going to war, or on pleasure:
and some shall run before his chariots; be his running footmen, being swift of foot, and trained up for that service; some are naturally swift, as Asahel was 2 Samuel 2:18. Pliny b speaks of some swifter than horses; and of the swiftness of some he elsewhere gives c many surprising instances. It seems as if it was usual to have fifty such men to run before them, see 2 Samuel 15:1.
a In Politicis, l. 3. c. 16. b Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 2. c Ibid. c. 20.
