Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
1 Samuel 12:24
how great things:
Or, what a great thing etc.
how great things:
Or, what a great thing etc.
Verse 1 Samuel 12:24. _ONLY FEAR THE LORD_] _Know, respect_, and _reverence_ him. _SERVE HIM_] Consider him your _Lord_ and _Master_; consider yourselves his _servants_. _IN TRUTH_] Be ever _honest...
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...
_how great things he hath done for you_ Lit. WITH YOU. The reference can scarcely be limited to the recent storm as a display of God's greatness, but includes all his gracious dealings with His people...
DISCOURSE: 294 DEVOTION TO GOD URGED FROM A SENSE OF GRATITUDE 1 Samuel 12:23. _I will teach you the good and the right way: only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consid...
_Samuel Rebukes the People._ 1 Samuel 12:16-25 16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes. 17 _Is it_ not wheat harvest today? I will call unto the Lord,...
12:24 for (d-21) Lit. 'with.'...
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...
אַ֣ךְ ׀ יְר֣אוּ אֶת ־יְהוָ֗ה וַ עֲבַדְתֶּ֥ם א
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...
HIS WARNING CONFIRMED FROM HEAVEN 1 Samuel 12:14 Having handed his office over to Saul, who henceforth was to shepherd and lead the Chosen People, Samuel assured them that the Lord would not forsake...
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...
Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your (o) heart: for consider how great [things] he hath done for you. (o) Unfeignedly, and without hypocrisy....
(20) And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart; (21) And turn ye not aside: for th...
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...
_A FORGOTTEN DUTY_ ‘Consider how great things He hath done for you.’ 1 Samuel 12:24 One of the great difficulties in the present day is to make time to consider. How are we to get at the truth abou...
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...
ONLY FEAR THE LORD, AND SERVE HIM IN TRUTH WITH ALL YOUR HEART,.... Fear him not with a servile fear, which is before dehorted from, but with a filial fear, a reverential affection for God; and includ...
Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great [things] he hath done for you. Ver. 24. _Only fear the Lord._] Else my praying for you shall profit you nothing:...
_Only fear the Lord, and serve him with truth_, &c. Otherwise neither my prayers nor counsels will stand you in any stead. Thus we see that amidst all the changes of the Hebrew state, their prophets s...
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...
SAMUEL ADMONISHES THE PEOPLE TO STEADFASTNESS...
Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth, without the slightest hypocrisy, WITH ALL YOUR HEART; FOR CONSIDER HOW GREAT THINGS HE HATH DONE FOR YOU. With the remembrance of His great deeds before them...
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...
16-25 At Samuel's word, God sent thunder and rain, at a season of the year when, in that country, the like was not seen. This was to convince them they had done wickedly in asking a king; not only by...
FEAR THE LORD, AND SERVE HIM; otherwise neither my prayer nor counsels will stand you in any stead. HE HATH DONE FOR YOU, or, _among you_, both at this time and formerly....
1 Samuel 12:24 fear H3372 (H8798) LORD H3068 serve H5647 (H8804) truth H571 heart H3824 consider H7200 ...
FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
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...
_Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart._ THE RELIGIOUS CAPABILITY OF MAN I. That man can reverence God. “Only fear the Lord” Reverence implies:-- 1. A sense of Divine greatn...
_Now, therefore, behold the king whom ye have chosen._ SAMUEL’S FAREWELL ADDRESS I. One could hardly fail to note what is here taught respecting the condition of true prosperity. Samuel plainly tells...
_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...
Deuteronomy 10:21; Exodus 12:13; Ezra 9:13; Ezra 9:14; Hebrews 12:29;...
Only, &c. — Otherwise neither my prayer nor counsels will stand you in any stead....