THEOSIS1 Kingdoms (1 Samuel) 8:1Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he appointed his sons to be judges over Israel.
וַיְהִ֕י כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר זָקֵ֖ן שְׁמוּאֵ֑ל וַיָּ֧שֶׂם אֶת־בָּנָ֛יו שֹׁפְטִ֖ים לְיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 16:18Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,
- Deut 16:19And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.
- 1 Tim 5:21I charge thee, before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by declining to either side.
- Neh 7:2I commanded Hanani my brother, and Hananias ruler of the house of Jerusalem, (for he seemed as a sincere man, and one that feared God above the rest,)
- Judg 12:14And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted upon seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years:
- Judg 8:22And all the men of Israel said to Gedeon: Rule thou over us, and thy son, and thy son's son: because thou hast delivered us from the hand of Madian.
- Judg 8:23And he said to them: I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you, but the Lord shall rule over you.
- 2 Chr 19:5And he set judges of the land in all the fenced cities of Juda, in every place.