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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 12:24

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, ever sincere; with all your heart - have every affection engaged in the work of obedience; act not merely from a principle of duty, but also from a pious, affectionate sense of obligation. Act towards your God as an affectionate child should act towards a tender and loving parent.

Consider how great things] Review the history of your fathers, review your own life; see what interpositions of power, mercy, goodness, and truth, God has displayed in your behalf! Has he not daily loaded you with his benefits?

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See also 1 Samuel 12:24 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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,...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    12:24 for (d-21) Lit. 'with.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 ...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַ֣ךְ ׀ יְר֣אוּ אֶת ־יְהוָ֗ה וַ עֲבַדְתֶּ֥ם א

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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:...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SAMUEL ADMONISHES THE PEOPLE TO STEADFASTNESS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HOW GREAT THINGS: Or, what a great thing etc....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 12:24 fear H3372 (H8798) LORD H3068 serve H5647 (H8804) truth H571 heart H3824 consider H7200 ...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Only, &c. — Otherwise neither my prayer nor counsels will stand you in any stead....

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