Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
1 Samuel 12:8
Verse 1 Samuel 12:8. The Lord sent Moses and Aaron] He shows them that through all their history God had ever raised them up deliverers, when their necessities required such interference.
Verse 1 Samuel 12:8. The Lord sent Moses and Aaron] He shows them that through all their history God had ever raised them up deliverers, when their necessities required such interference.
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...
JACOB. Compare Genesis 46:6; Genesis 46:6. SENT. Compare Exodus 4:16. MADE. He caused. So Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate....
_When Jacob_, &c. The additions of the Sept. seem necessary to complete the sense. It reads, "When Jacob and his sons were come into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, your fathers cried," &c. C...
_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...
_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 co...
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...
WHEN JACOB WAS COME INTO EGYPT. — Now, in order, Samuel rehearses the deeds of loving-kindness done for Israel by this Eternal King. And first he mentions the wonders of the Exodus, and how, under tha...
כַּֽ אֲשֶׁר ־בָּ֥א יַעֲקֹ֖ב מִצְרָ֑יִם וַ יִּ
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...
(8) 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. (9) And...
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...
WHEN JACOB WAS COME INTO EGYPT,.... With his family to see his son Joseph, and dwelt there; or rather the posterity of Jacob are meant, who settled in Egypt, and continued there many years, and at len...
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. Ver. 8. _Wh...
_Made them dwell in this place_ In this land: in which Moses and Aaron are said to settle them; because they brought them into, and seated them in part of it, that without Jordan; because they were, u...
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 PROTESTS HIS INTEGRITY...
When Jacob was come into Egypt and your fathers cried unto the Lord, at the time of the great oppression by the Egyptians, THEN THE LORD SENT MOSES AND AARON, WHICH BROUGHT FORTH YOUR FATHERS OUT OF E...
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...
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...
In this land; in which Moses and Aaron are said to settle them; partly, because they brought them into and seated them in part of it, to wit, that without Jordan; partly, because they were, under God,...
1 Samuel 12:8 Jacob H3290 gone H935 (H8804) Egypt H4714 fathers H1 out H2199 (H8799) LORD H3068 LORD...
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...
_Which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt._ GOD’S LEADING A child might say to a geographer: “You talk about the earth being round! Look on this great crag; look on that deep dell; look on yonde...
_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...
1 Samuel 12:6; Acts 7:15; Exodus 12:51; Exodus 14:30; Exodus 14:31;...
This place — In this land: in which Moses and Aaron are said to settle them; because they brought them into, and seated them in part of it, that without Jordan; because they were, under God, the princ...