1st Samuel Chapter 8 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV 1stSamuel 8:18

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.
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BBE 1stSamuel 8:18

Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.
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DARBY 1stSamuel 8:18

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye have chosen; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.
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KJV 1stSamuel 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.
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WBT 1stSamuel 8:18

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen for yourselves; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
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WEB 1stSamuel 8:18

You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
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YLT 1stSamuel 8:18

And ye have cried out in that day because of the king whom ye have chosen for yourselves, and Jehovah doth not answer you in that day.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - 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 (2 Chronicles 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.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.