12<\/strong>. And when ye saw<\/em> ] As the demand for a king preceded the invasion of Nahash recorded in ch. 11, the reference must be to earlier inroads, or to a threatened attack. This reason for desiring a king is hinted at in 1Sa 8:20<\/span>.<\/p>\n Nay<\/em> ] Refusing to listen to my expostulations (1Sa 8:6<\/span>; 1Sa 8:19<\/span>).<\/p>\n when the Lord your God was your king<\/em> ] Cp. Jdg 8:23<\/span>.<\/p>\n Verse 12<\/span>. When ye saw that Nahash<\/B><\/I>] This was not the first time they had demanded a king<\/I>; see before, 1Sa 8:5<\/span>. But at the crisis mentioned here they became more importunate; and it was in consequence of this that the kingdom was a second time confirmed to Saul. Saul was elected<\/I> at Mizpeh<\/I>, he was confirmed<\/I> at Gilgal<\/I>.<\/P> <\/p>\n A king shall reign over us: <\/B>See Poole “1Sa 11:1<\/span>“. When the Lord your God was your king, i.e. when God was your immediate King and Governor, who was both able and willing to deliver you, if you had cried to him, whereof you and your ancestors have had plentiful experience; so that you did not at all need any other king; and your desire of another was a manifest reproach against God, as if he were either grown impotent, or unfaithful, or unmerciful to you. <\/P> <\/p>\n 7-16. Now therefore stand still,that I may reason with you<\/B>The burden of this faithful anduncompromising address was to show them, that though they hadobtained the change of government they had so importunely desired,their conduct was highly displeasing to their heavenly King;nevertheless, if they remained faithful to Him and to the principlesof the theocracy, they might be delivered from many of the evils towhich the new state of things would expose them. And in confirmationof those statements, no less than in evidence of the divinedispleasure, a remarkable phenomenon, on the invocation of theprophet, and of which he gave due premonition, took place.<\/P><\/p>\n And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you<\/strong>,…. Or “but yet” k; however, notwithstanding though the Lord had been so kind and gracious to them, as to raise up judges one after another to deliver them, when they cried unto him, yet when they perceived that Nahash the Ammonite was preparing to make war with them, instead of applying to the Lord for his protection, they desired to have a king to go before them, and fight their battles, as follows: nay,<\/p>\n but a king shall reign over us<\/strong>; though Samuel told them they had no need of one:<\/p>\n when the Lord your God was your King<\/strong>; and would protect and defend them, if they applied to him, and would put their trust in him; and he himself Samuel was their judge, and would be their general and commander, and they had experience of success under him to the utter destruction of their enemies, 1Sa 7:10<\/span> and yet, notwithstanding all this, they insisted upon it to have a king. According to Abarbinel, this preparation of Nahash to war with them was after they had asked for a king, and was a punishment of them for their request; and yet they repented not of it, but in effect said, though Nahash, and all the enemies in the world come against us, we will not go back from our request, but insist on it, that we have a king to reign over us; such was their obstinacy and perverseness.<\/p>\n k “videntes autem”, V. L. “sed”, Tigurine version; “et tamen”, Vatablus, Piscator.<\/p>\n (12) Nahash the king of the children of Ammon.<\/strong>It has been suggested, with great probability, that Nahash and the Ammonites had invaded the trans-Jordanic territory of Israel in the period immediately preceding the demand addressed to Samuel for a king, and that the invasion which culminated in the siege of Jabesh-gilead was only one of a series of destructive forays and invasions.<\/p>\n 12<\/strong>. <\/strong> When ye saw that Nahash came <\/strong> This shows, as we have elsewhere noted, (at beginning of chap. 8,) that the Ammonite invasion was one reason of Israel’s urgent request for a king. See, he says, your disrespect and ingratitude towards God. When a judge was in your midst by whom God had wrought you most signal deliverance from your foes, ye see another enemy in the distance, and begin to clamour for a human king, apparently forgetting that Jehovah, your God, was your king!<\/p>\n 1Sa 12:12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king.<\/p>\n Ver. 12. Nay; but a king shall reign over us.<\/strong> ] This Nay is much and oft alleged against them; to show their wilfulness, and how they were set upon it, not hearkening to any right reason. A wilful man standeth like a stake in the midst of a stream; lets all pass by him, but he standeth where he was.<\/p>\n ye saw. Figure of speech Hysteresis, or Hysterologia (App-6), by which a prior event is recorded later. children-sons. <\/p>\n Nahash: 1Sa 11:1, 1Sa 11:2 <\/p>\n Nay: 1Sa 8:3, 1Sa 8:5, 1Sa 8:6, 1Sa 8:19, 1Sa 8:20, Jdg 9:18, Jdg 9:56, Jdg 9:57 <\/p>\n when the Lord: 1Sa 8:7, 1Sa 10:19, Gen 17:7, Exo 19:5, Exo 19:6, Num 23:21, Jdg 8:23, Psa 74:12, Isa 33:22, Hos 13:10 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Num 22:20 – If the men Jdg 2:17 – they would Jdg 8:22 – Rule thou 1Ch 19:1 – Nahash Pro 24:21 – meddle Eze 16:13 – and thou didst Act 13:21 – they<\/p>\n 1Sa 12:12. When ye saw that Nahash came against you, &c. From this it appears that Nahash had levied war against them some time before he came against Jabesh-gilead, as mentioned in the foregoing chapter; and that they took occasion from thence to demand a king, as being fearful and impatient of staying till God should raise them up a deliverer, or command Samuel, who was their judge, to go out to fight against him. When the Lord your God was your king That is, when God was your immediate king and governor, who was both able and willing to deliver you, if you had cried to him, whereof you and your ancestors have had plentiful experience; so that you did not at all need any other king; and your desire of another was a manifest reproach against God.<\/p>\n 12:12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, {g} Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king.<\/p>\n (g) Leaving God to seek the help of man, 1Sa 8:5.<\/p>\n And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king. 12. 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