1 Samuel 8:3

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What does 1 Samuel 8:3 mean?

1 Samuel 8:3 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for 1 Samuel 8:3

• Deuteronomy 16:19

  Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

• 1 Timothy 6:10

  For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

• Psalms 15:5

  He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

• Exodus 18:21

  Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

• Exodus 23:8

  And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

• Isaiah 33:15

  He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

• 2 Samuel 15:4

  Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!

• 1 Timothy 3:3

  Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

• Ecclesiastes 2:19

  And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

• Jeremiah 22:15-17

  Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord. But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

• 1 Kings 12:6-11

  And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people? And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever. But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him: And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter? …

• Psalms 26:10

  In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

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Context

• 1 Samuel 8:2

  Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer–sheba.

• 1 Samuel 8:3

  And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

• 1 Samuel 8:4

  Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

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