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1 Samuel 8:1 Explained in Context

Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.

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Verse 1. And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

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Role in This Section

Introduces Samuel's old age and appointment of his sons as judges.

Read It With

  • 1 Samuel 8:1–8:5

Verse 8:1 belongs to “Failed judicial succession prompts the elders' royal request.” It introduces Samuel's old age and appointment of his sons as judges; detached from the full unit, that contribution can be mistaken for the unit's whole claim.

Why It Needs Context

The line's necessary work is to Samuel's old age and appointment of his sons as judges; its claim stays dependent on “Failed judicial succession prompts the elders' royal request.”

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Read 1 Samuel 8:1–8:5 — Failed judicial succession prompts the elders' royal request
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How certain is this explanation? strong

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society

USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.

Exact location: 1 Samuel 8:1–8:5, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Samuel

Open Scriptures

Open Scriptures, release 2.2

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology, with the two KJV-Hebrew versification shifts stated rather than silently offset.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Sam.xml, OSIS 8:1–8:5; KJV 20:42 spans Hebrew 20:42–21:1, KJV 21:1–15 maps to Hebrew 21:2–16, KJV 23:29 maps to Hebrew 24:1, and KJV 24:1–22 maps to Hebrew 24:2–23

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