stand still, that I may reason with you Present yourselves that I may plead with you. The figure of a trial (1 Samuel 12:3 note) is still kept up; but the relation of the parties is changed. Samuel is now the accuser, Israel the defendant. Cp. Ezekiel 20:35-36; Micah 6:1-5.
the righteous acts of the Lord Punishments for sin and deliverances from distress alike proved the righteousness of Jehovah in His covenant with Israel. Cp. Judges 5:11.
Verse 1 Samuel 12:7. _NOW THEREFORE STAND STILL_] I have arraigned _myself_ before God and you; I now arraign _you_ before God....
5. SAMUEL'S WITNESS AND WARNING CHAPTER 12 _ 1. His witness to his own integrity (1 Samuel 12:1)_ 2. His warning (1 Samuel 12:6) 3. Heaven's answer (1 Samuel 12:16) 4. His words of co
1 SAMUEL 12. SAMUEL'S FAREWELL. From the Deuteronomic document, where it separated the two clauses of 1 Samuel 10:25, which see. 1 SAMUEL 12:1_ A_ (to witness). In response to a solemn adjuration fr...
_Israel's History Reviewed._ 1 Samuel 12:6-15 6 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. 7 Now there...
_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 wi...
12:7 still, (c-4) Or 'present yourselves.' with (d-9) Lit. 'judge,' _ shaphat_ ....
SAMUEL RESIGNS HIS JUDGESHIP This chapter is a continuation of 1 Samuel 10:17, and the scene of the events recorded is the great national assembly at Mizpeh. Notice, however, the reference to Nahash ...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 12 SAMUEL SPEAKS TO ALL THE *ISRAELITES FOR THE LAST TIME V1 Samuel said to all the *Israelites, ‘I have done everything that you wanted me t...
NOW THEREFORE... — Samuel proceeds in his painful work. See now, he says, we have advanced thus far in my solemn pleading. Stand up now, ye elders, while I proceed. My innocence, as your judge, you ha...
וְ עַתָּ֗ה הִֽתְיַצְּב֛וּ וְ אִשָּׁפְטָ֥ה אִתְּכֶ֖ם...
CHAPTER XVII. _ SAMUEL'S DEALINGS WITH THE PEOPLE._ 1 Samuel 12:6. 2. HAVING vindicated himself (in the first five verses of this chapter, 1 Samuel 12:1), Samuel now proceeds to his second point, an...
SAMUEL'S LAST MESSAGE TO ISRAEL 1 Samuel 12:1 An end must come to the longest and most useful service. “Before his long sleep Samuel made protestation of his innocence before God and the people.” Yes...
At the confirmation of the king appointed by God by the consent of the nation, Samuel delivered what was practically his last address to them. It was of the nature of a farewell message, in which was...
Stand up, like people cited to the bar. Having undergone his own trial with applause, Samuel shews that the people will not come off so well at the tribunal of God, whom they had treated with greater...
(6) В¶ 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. (7) Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with y...
We have already seen that the desire and deliberate decision of the people for a king was a direct blow at the government of God in Israel; but the time was come to permit the will of the people to ha...
Samuel (chap. 12) receives the people's testimony to his fidelity. He sets before them the ways of God towards them, their ingratitude and foolishness in having asked for a king and rejected God. Neve...
NOW THEREFORE STAND STILL,.... Keep your place, and do not as yet break up the assembly, but wait a little longer patiently, and with reverence and attention hearken to what I have further to say: TH...
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. Ver. 7. _Now therefore stand still._] Bustle not,...
_Now, therefore, stand still_ Having obtained an honourable testimony from them as to his own conduct, he would not dismiss them till he had represented to them the great benefits which they had recei...
1 Samuel testifieth his integritie. 6 Hee reprooueth the people of ingratitude. 16 He terrifieth them with thunder in haruest time. 20 He comforteth them in Gods mercy. 1 AND Samuel saide vnto all...
Now, therefore, stand still that I may reason with you, as though he were conducting his own cause before a judge, BEFORE THE LORD OF ALL THE RIGHTEOUS ACTS OF THE LORD, God's blessings by reason of H...
SAMUEL PROTESTS HIS INTEGRITY...
This chapter intervenes in the history as a solemn reproof to Israel and a warning of the dangers to which they had exposed themselves by asking for a king The voice of the prophet is not to be put in...
RIGHTEOUS ACTS: _ Heb._ righteousness, or, benefits TO: _ Heb._ with...
6-15 The work of ministers is to reason with people; not only to exhort and direct, but to persuade, to convince men's judgments, and so to gain their wills and affections. Samuel reasons of the righ...
THAT I MAY REASON WITH YOU: since God hath laid so great obligations upon you, let us a little consider whether you have answered them. THE RIGHTEOUS ACTS, Heb. _the righteousnesses_, i.e. mercies or...
1 Samuel 12:7 still H3320 (H8690) reason H8199 (H8735) before H6440 LORD H3068 acts H6666 LORD H3068 did...
SAMUEL FIRST BRIEFLY RECOUNTS THE HISTORY OF YHWH'S GOODNESS IN APPOINTING DELIVERERS IN ORDER TO DELIVER THEM (THE WAY IN WHICH HE HAS CHOSEN TO RULE THEM), AND YET EVEN THEN THEY HAVE CONTINUALLY FA...
CONTENTS: Samuel's proclamation of the kingdom. Deliverances of God rehearsed. The sign of thunder and rain. CHARACTERS: God, Samuel. CONCLUSION: Religion has reason on its side (1 Samuel 12:7) whic...
1 Samuel 12:2. _I am old and grey-headed._ Some think Samuel was now seventy three or eighty years of age; others think he was but sixty three. Usher's chronology is much embarrassed here. 1 Samuel 12...
_And Samuel maid unto the people._ SAMUEL’S DEALINGS WITH THE PEOPLE Having vindicated himself (in the first five verses of this chapter), Samuel now proceeds to his second point, and takes the peopl...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 12:1 The setting of this address is not clear, though it was probably a different occasion than ch. 1 Samuel 11:1. From now on, Samuel will no longer be the judge of all Is
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 1 Samuel 12:1. “AND SAMUEL SAID,” etc. “The time and place of the following address are not given, but it is evident from the connection with the preceding chapter, and...
EXPOSITION SAMUEL'S EXHORTATION TO THE PEOPLE AT GILGAL. This speech of Samuel is not to be regarded as a farewell address made upon his resignation of his office; for though a new power had been intr...
Now in the twelfth chapter Samuel is now sort of stepping down because they have now proclaimed the king. So his career as the judge over Israel has pretty much come to an end, as the reigns of govern...
Acts 17:3; Ezekiel 18:25; Isaiah 1:18; Isaiah 5:3; Isaiah 5:4;...
Righteous acts — Heb. the righteousnesses; that is, mercies or benefits the chief subject of the following discourse; some of their calamities being but briefly named, and that for the illustration of...