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OET (OET-LV) And_they_said to_him/it here you you_have_become_old and_sons_your not they_have_walked in/on/at/with_ways_your now appoint to/for_ourselves a_king to_judge_us like_all the_nations.
OET (OET-RV) and requested, “Listen, you’re old now, and your sons don’t follow your example. So appoint a king for us now to lead us like all the other nations.”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
(Occurrence 0) do not walk in your ways
(Some words not found in UHB: and=they_said to=him/it see/lo/see! you(ms) old and,sons,your not walk in/on/at/with,ways,your now appoint, to/for=ourselves king to,judge,us like,all the=nations )
The way a person lives is spoken of as walking on a path. Alternate translation: “do not do the things you do” or “do not do what is just the way you do”
(Occurrence 0) Appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations
(Some words not found in UHB: and=they_said to=him/it see/lo/see! you(ms) old and,sons,your not walk in/on/at/with,ways,your now appoint, to/for=ourselves king to,judge,us like,all the=nations )
This could mean: (1) “Appoint for us a king like the kings of all the nations so that he can judge us” or (2) “Appoint for us a king who will judge us the way the kings of the nations judge them”
(Occurrence 0) Appoint for us a king to judge us
(Some words not found in UHB: and=they_said to=him/it see/lo/see! you(ms) old and,sons,your not walk in/on/at/with,ways,your now appoint, to/for=ourselves king to,judge,us like,all the=nations )
The leaders wrongly believed that a king, and his sons after him, would rule justly.
8:5 you are now old, and your sons are not like you: Judges tended to be local leaders; kings, as national leaders, were more capable of uniting a whole nation in times of crisis (8:20). However, a spiritual problem underlay the request for a king (8:7-8).
• Other nations, such as Egypt and Sumer, had monarchies for almost 2,000 years before Samuel’s time.
OET (OET-LV) And_they_said to_him/it here you you_have_become_old and_sons_your not they_have_walked in/on/at/with_ways_your now appoint to/for_ourselves a_king to_judge_us like_all the_nations.
OET (OET-RV) and requested, “Listen, you’re old now, and your sons don’t follow your example. So appoint a king for us now to lead us like all the other nations.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.