_AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO ALL ISRAEL, BEHOLD, I HAVE HEARKENED UNTO YOUR VOICE IN ALL THAT YE SAID UNTO ME, AND HAVE MADE A KING OVER YOU._ Samuel said unto all Israel. The venerable judge, in resigning his magisterial authority, challenged the most minute inquiry into every act of his administration.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NOW, BEHOLD, THE KING WALKETH BEFORE YOU: AND I AM OLD AND GRAYHEADED; AND, BEHOLD, MY SONS ARE WITH YOU: AND I HAVE WALKED BEFORE YOU FROM MY CHILDHOOD UNTO THIS DAY._ I am old and grey-headed. [The Septuagint, from a different punctuation, renders it, kagoo gegeeraka kai katheesomai, and I h... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEHOLD, HERE I AM: WITNESS AGAINST ME BEFORE THE LORD, AND BEFORE HIS ANOINTED: WHOSE OX HAVE I TAKEN? OR WHOSE ASS HAVE I TAKEN? OR WHOM HAVE I DEFRAUDED? WHOM HAVE I OPPRESSED? OR OF WHOSE HAND HAVE I RECEIVED ANY BRIBE TO BLIND MINE EYES THEREWITH? AND I WILL RESTORE IT YOU._ No JFB commentary... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, THE LORD IS WITNESS AGAINST YOU, AND HIS ANOINTED IS WITNESS THIS DAY, THAT YE HAVE NOT FOUND OUGHT IN MY HAND. AND THEY ANSWERED, HE IS WITNESS._ The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day - that, by their own acknowledgment, he had given them no... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE, IT IS THE LORD THAT ADVANCED MOSES AND AARON, AND THAT BROUGHT YOUR FATHERS UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE STAND STILL, THAT I MAY REASON WITH YOU BEFORE THE LORD OF ALL THE RIGHTEOUS ACTS OF THE LORD, WHICH HE DID TO YOU AND TO YOUR FATHERS._ Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you. The burden of this faithful and uncompromising address was to show them that though they had... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN JACOB WAS COME INTO EGYPT, AND YOUR FATHERS CRIED UNTO THE LORD, THEN THE LORD SENT MOSES AND AARON, WHICH BROUGHT FORTH YOUR FATHERS OUT OF EGYPT, AND MADE THEM DWELL IN THIS PLACE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SENT JERUBBAAL, AND BEDAN, AND JEPHTHAH, AND SAMUEL, AND DELIVERED YOU OUT OF THE HAND OF YOUR ENEMIES ON EVERY SIDE, AND YE DWELLED SAFE._ Bedan. The Septuagint reads Barak; and for "Samuel" some versions read 'Samson,' which seems more natural than that the prophet should mention hi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN YE SAW THAT NAHASH THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON CAME AGAINST YOU, YE SAID UNTO ME, NAY; BUT A KING SHALL REIGN OVER US: WHEN THE LORD YOUR GOD WAS YOUR KING._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE BEHOLD THE KING WHOM YE HAVE CHOSEN, AND WHOM YE HAVE DESIRED! AND, BEHOLD, THE LORD HATH SET A KING OVER YOU._ Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen ... the Lord hath set a king over you. In concluding his address to the assembled heads of the nation, he presents to them... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF YE WILL FEAR THE LORD, AND SERVE HIM, AND OBEY HIS VOICE, AND NOT REBEL AGAINST THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, THEN SHALL BOTH YE AND ALSO THE KING THAT REIGNETH OVER YOU CONTINUE FOLLOWING THE LORD YOUR GOD:_ If ye will fear the Lord ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IF YE WILL NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD, BUT REBEL AGAINST THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, THEN SHALL THE HAND OF THE LORD BE AGAINST YOU, AS IT WAS AGAINST YOUR FATHERS._ But if ye will not obey the voice of the Lord ... To set before them the alternative consequences of obedience and disobedi... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE STAND AND SEE THIS GREAT THING, WHICH THE LORD WILL DO BEFORE YOUR EYES._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IS IT NOT WHEAT HARVEST TO DAY? I WILL CALL UNTO THE LORD, AND HE SHALL SEND THUNDER AND RAIN; THAT YE MAY PERCEIVE AND SEE THAT YOUR WICKEDNESS IS GREAT, WHICH YE HAVE DONE IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, IN ASKING YOU A KING._ Is it not wheat harvest today? That season in Palestine occurs at the begin... [ Continue Reading ]