1 Samuel - 8:2 Meaning
“Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
8:1-3 It does not appear that Samuel's sons were so profane and vicious as Eli's sons; but they were corrupt judges, they turned aside after lucre. Samuel took no bribes, but his sons did, and then they perverted judgment. What added to the grievance of the people was, that they were threatened by an invasion from Nahash, king of the Ammonites.
“For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.”
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