SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:11
Y dijo: Este será el derecho del rey que hubiere de reinar sobre vosotros; tomará vuestros hijos, y los pondrá en sus carros, y en su gente de a caballo, para que corran delante de su carro.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. And he said, this will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you , etc.] Not in which he ought to proceed, but what he will do: and this not the manner of one king, or of the first only, but of all of them, more or less; of kings in general, who are commonly inclined to arbitrary power. So Aristotle in opposition to theocracy, describes a full and absolute kingdom, as he calls it, when a king does all things according to his will: and observes, that he that would have the mind or reason preside, would have God and the laws rule; but he that would have a man to reign, adds also a lust, or one led by his own lust: so it follows, he will take your sons, and appoint them for himself ; for his own use and service, to wait upon him, to be his pages, or grooms, or guards: for his chariots ; to take care of them, and drive them, though not without paying them for it; yet this being but a mean and servile employment, and what they should be obliged to, whether they would or no, is observed to show the tyranny and bondage to which they would be subject, when their sons otherwise might be free men, and possessed of estates and carriages of their own: and to be his horsemen ; or rather “for his horses”, to take care of them, and go out along with him, and attend his person, whether when going to war, or on pleasure: and some shall run before his chariots ; be his running footmen, being swift of foot, and trained up for that service; some are naturally swift, as Asahel was ( 2 Samuel 2:18). Pliny speaks of some swifter than horses; and of the swiftness of some he elsewhere gives many surprising instances. It seems as if it was usual to have fifty such men to run before them, (see 2 Samuel 15:1 1 Kings 1:5).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-22 - If they would have a king to rule them, as the eastern kings rule their subjects, they would find the yoke exceedingly heavy. Those tha submit to the government of the world and the flesh, are told plainly what hard masters they are, and what tyranny the dominion of sin is The law of God and the manner of men widely differ from each other; the former should be our rule in the several relations of life; the latte should be the measure of our expectations from others. These would by their grievances, and, when they complained to God, he would not hea them. When we bring ourselves into distress by our own wrong desire and projects, we justly forfeit the comfort of prayer, and the benefi of Divine aid. The people were obstinate and urgent in their demand Sudden resolves and hasty desires make work for long and leisurel repentance. Our wisdom is, to be thankful for the advantages, an patient under the disadvantages of the government we may live under and to pray continually for our rulers, that they may govern us in the fear of God, and that we may live under them in all godliness an honesty. And it is a hopeful symptom when our desires of worldl objects can brook delay; and when we can refer the time and manner of their being granted to God's providence __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 זה 2088 יהיה 1961 משׁפט 4941 המלך 4428 אשׁר 834 ימלך 4427 עליכם 5921 את 853 בניכם 1121 יקח 3947 ושׂם 7760 לו במרכבתו 4818 ובפרשׁיו 6571 ורצו 7323 לפני 6440 מרכבתו׃ 4818
