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1 Samuel 3:10

And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.

The Lord came, and stood. In the previous calls the voice appeared to proceed from a distance; now the sound was as if the speaker stood beside him, and remained in the same close contiguity until the communication was finished.

Samuel, Samuel. The repetition of his name was intended to arrest the boy's attention.

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See also 1 Samuel 3:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 3:10. _THE LORD CANE, AND STOOD_] He heard the voice as if it was approaching nearer and nearer; till at last, from the sameness of the tone, he could imagine that it ceased to approach...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A personal presence, not a mere voice, or impression upon Samuel’s mind, is here distinctly indicated. (Compare Genesis 12:7 note; Revelation 1:1; Revelation 22:16.)...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. SAMUEL'S CALL AND PROPHETIC MINISTRY CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Samuel's call (1 Samuel 3:1)_ 2. The message from Jehovah (1 Samuel 3:10) 3. Samuel the prophet (1 Samuel 3:19) After the priesthood ha

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    IN OBEDIENCE TO THE COMMAND OF THE LORD, SAMUEL ANNOUNCES TO ELI THE DOOM OF HIS HOUSE. Parallel to the Deuteronomic section (1 Samuel 2:27). 1 SAMUEL 3:12. Probably an addition by the Deuteronomic w...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 SAMUEL 3:1 TO 1 SAMUEL 4:1 A... ALL ISRAEL. ANOTHER SECTION OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL (see above, p. 273). 1 SAMUEL 3:1. CALL OF SAMUEL....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SAMUEL, SAMUEL. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ App-6. See note on Genesis 22:11 for the ten reduplications....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    1 Samuel 3:1-10. The Call of Samuel 1. _the child Samuel_ According to Josephus, Samuel had just completed his twelfth year when the word of Jehovah came to him. In later times this age was a critical...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And the Lord came, and stood_ The Heb. is emphatic: PRESENTED HIMSELF. The Voice became a Vision (1 Samuel 3:15). Cp. Genesis 15:1; Numbers 12:6-8. The visible manifestations of Jehovah or the Angel...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE LORD CAME, AND STOOD, &C.— These last words, which are the same as those used in the history of Balaam, Numbers 22:22; Numbers 23:30 are employed to denote some appearance; and, therefore, both Je...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Samuel's call._ 1 Samuel 3:1-10 And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; _there was_ no open vision. 2 And it came to pass at t...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:10 stood, (d-5) As Genesis 18:2 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CAME, AND STOOD] the Voice became a Vision....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CALL OF SAMUEL 1. Precious] RM, 'rare': see Isaiah 13:12. There was no prophet then. OPEN] rather, 'published, widely announced': cp. 2 Chronicles 31:5....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 THE *LORD CALLS SAMUEL V1 The boy Samuel served the *Lord. Eli the priest led him. In those days, it was rare for the *Lord to speak directl...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD CAME, AND STOOD. — Then before the boy, as he lay and waited for _the voice,_ came _something,_ and it stood before him. The question naturally occurs to us, _What_ came and stood before...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּבֹ֤א יְהוָה֙ וַ יִּתְיַצַּ֔ב וַ יִּקְרָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER V. _ SAMUEL'S VISION._ 1 Samuel 3:1. IT is evident that Samuel must have taken very kindly to the duties of the sanctuary. He was manifestly one of those who are sanctified from in- fancy, a...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A MESSAGE THROUGH A CHILD 1 Samuel 3:10 It was a heavy burden that the young boy had to carry. To remind Eli of his sons' shameful sin; to reprove him for his neglect; to utter a judgment which no sa...

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

    At this point in the history came a change, startling, and full of meaning in Samuel's life. In the silence of the night a Voice called him by name. Thrice he answered by going to Eli. At last Eli rec...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Times, ( secundo:) a second time, or repeatedly, or mentioning the name twice, (Menochius) as God does sometimes in urgent cases, Genesis xxii. 11. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (9) Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place. (10) And the LO...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 3 God reveals Himself to Samuel; and he is known to be a prophet of Jehovah from Dan even to Beersheba. Eli, judged for having loved his sons more than Jehovah, comforts our hearts neverthe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD CAME, AND STOOD,.... At the place where Samuel lay; either there was, as Kimchi, a form before his eyes in the vision of prophecy, some visible corporeal shape assumed; or a bright splend...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth. Ver. 10. _And the Lord came, and stood._] In some visible shape, eith...

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

    _The Lord came and stood_, &c. Before, the Lord spake to him at a distance, even from the holy oracle between the cherubim: but now, to prevent all further mistake, the voice came near to him, as if t...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 How the word of the Lord was first reuealed to Samuel. 11 God telleth Samuel the destruction of Elies house. 15 Samuel, though loth, telleth Eli the vision. 19 Samuel groweth in credit. 1 AND th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Lord, who had at first manifested Himself merely by His voice, CAME, AND STOOD, in a vision which must have been plainly visible to Samuel upon awakening, AND CALLED AS AT OTHER TIMES, SAMUEL!...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LORD REVEALS HIMSELF TO SAMUEL...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Again the contrast in the child Samuel to what goes before is emphasized: he ministered to the Lord before Eli. Eli witnessed his simple faithfulness to the Lord; but while he no doubt appreciated it...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 The call which Divine grace designs shall be made effectual; will be repeated till it is so, till we come to the call. Eli, perceiving that it was the voice of God that Samuel heard, instructed...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD CAME; before, he spake to him at a distance, even from the holy oracle between the cherubims; but now, to prevent all further mistakes, the voice came near to him, as if the person speaking h...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 3:10 LORD H3068 came H935 (H8799) stood H3320 (H8691) called H7121 (H8799) times H6471 Samuel...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH CALLS TO SAMUEL AGAIN AND THE AGED ELI IS ENLIGHTENED AND RECOGNISES THE T1SA (1 SAMUEL 3:8). 1 Samuel 3:8 ‘ And YHWH called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 Samuel 3:1 Of Bible boys Samuel is a chief favourite. The reason is that nothing under the sun is more beautiful than piety in childhood. Nothing like grace for making the young graceful. Martin Lut...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 SAMUEL 1-4 _(with Judges 21:16)_ I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great fault. He was a good man of the easy type; the kind of man who makes an admirable servant, who does...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 Samuel 3:10 The call of Samuel is very different in its circumstances from the call of St. Paul; yet it resembles it in this particular, that the circumstance of his obedience to it is brought out p...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Samuel becomes Jehovah's prophet-priest. CHARACTERS: God, Samuel, Eli. CONCLUSION: A child may have an ear for God's call; a mind for God's service and a message for God's bidding, for God...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Samuel 3:1. _No open vision;_ that is, no distinguished prophets in all the land; one of the great calamities which Amos denounced against Israel: 1 Samuel 8:12. 1 Samuel 3:3. _Ere the lamp of God w...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Speak, Lord; for Thy servant heareth._ THE PUPIL OF GOD I. As the auditor of God. “The Lord came and stood.” The Great Father speaks to man in nature, in history, in moral reason, as well as in spe...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then the Lord called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I._ THE CHILD SAMUEL “Child” is not a precise equivalent for the Hebrew word so rendered, which is considerably wider in meaning, and includes a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place._ THE CHARACTER OF ELI Eli and Samuel. 1. They are contrasted in point of years: for the one is a boy, the other a grey-headed...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli._ THE CHILD PROPHET This white flower blossomed on a dunghill. The continuous growth of a character, from a child serving God, and to old age...

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    THE RIGHT KIND OF EARS Speak; for thy servant heareth. 1 Samuel 3:10. The other day I read a story which came all the way from Japan. A missionary was walking along the streets of a Japanese town,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 3:10 SAMUEL! SAMUEL! The Lord called other people by uttering their name twice, e.g., Abraham (Genesis 22:11), Jacob ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 1 Samuel 3:11. “THE EARS OF EVERY ONE THAT HEARETH IT SHALL TINGLE.” A mark of dread and horror. (See 2 Kings 21:12 and Jeremiah 19:3.) “As a sharp, discordant noise pa...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 1 Samuel 3:1. “THE CHILD SAMUEL.” According to Josephus, Samuel was now twelve years old. “PRECIOUS,” _i.e., rare_. “The word was rare that came directly from the Lord...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE CALL OF SAMUEL (1 Samuel 3:1). 1 SAMUEL 3:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD WAS PRECIOUS IN THOSE DAYS. Or rather _rare_;_ _it came but seldom, and there was no proper order

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter three, The child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious [or scarce] in those days; there was no open vision. [God just wasn't speaking to man.] And i...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 3:4; 1 Samuel 3:8...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE PROPHET SAMUEL 1 Samuel 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The story of Samuel is one of the outstanding messages of the Bible. His father's name was Elkanah. His mother's name was Hannah. Elkanah went up,...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Came and stood — Before, he spake to him at a distance, even from the holy oracle between the cherubim: but now, to prevent all farther mistake, the voice came near to him, as if the person speaking h...

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