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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not forsake His people for His great name's sake, since His own glory was at stake; because it hath pleased the Lord to make you His people, and He would be careful to guard against every blasphemy of His holy name.

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See also 1 Samuel 12:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 12:22. _THE LORD WILL NOT FORSAKE HIS PEOPLE_] He will not as yet cast you off, though you have deserved it. His purpose in preserving them in their land and religion was not yet accomp...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WILL NOT FORSAKE. Compare Genesis 28:15.Joshua 1:5. Quoted in Romans 11:1; Romans 11:2. HIS PEOPLE. a People for Himself....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _for his great name's sake_ Lest He should seem in the eyes of the heathen not to be such as He declares Himself to be, Almighty, True, Faithful. Compare the use of this plea by Moses (Exodus 32:12; N...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 293 THE ISRAELITES’ REJECTION OF SAMUEL REPROVED 1 Samuel 12:16. Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes. Is it not wheat harvest to-day? I wil...

  • 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,...

  • 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 ...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FOR HIS GREAT NAME'S SAKE] The idea is explained in Exodus 32:12...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IT HATH PLEASED THE LORD TO MAKE YOU HIS PEOPLE. — The simple doctrine of election — as far as we can see, based alone on the arbitrary will of _God_ (though, no doubt, unseen by us, deep reasons exis...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֠י לֹֽא ־יִטֹּ֤שׁ יְהוָה֙ אֶת ־עַמֹּ֔ו בַּ

  • 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

    For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you (n) his people. (n) Of his free mercy, and not of your merits, and therefore he will n...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sake. This motive often proved the salvation of Israel, Exodus xxxii. 12. The Scriptures wholly tend to impress upon our minds, a sense of our own weakness, and of God's infinite glory and perfection...

  • 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...

  • 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

    FOR THE LORD WILL NOT FORSAKE HIS PEOPLE FOR HIS GREAT NAME'S SAKE. For the sake of himself, his honour and glory; should he forsake his people, and suffer them to come to ruin, his name would be blas...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. Ver. 22. _For the Lord will not forsake his people._] Whatever the devil a...

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

    _His name's sake_ That is, for his own honour, which would suffer much among men, if he should not preserve and deliver his people in imminent dangers. And this reason God allegeth, to take them off f...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

    FOR HIS GREAT NAME'S SAKE, i.e. for his own honour, which would seem to suffer much among men, if he should not preserve and deliver people in eminent dangers; as if he were grown feeble, or forgetful...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 12:22 LORD H3068 forsake H5203 (H8799) people H5971 great H1419 names H8034 pleased H2974 (H8689) LORD

  • 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

    _For the Lord will not forsake His people._ GOD NEVER FORSAKES HIS PEOPLE I. Let us consider how God has made our nation His peculiar people. 1. It hath pleased the Lord to separate us in a peculia...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not._ DANGER OR DESPONDENCY It is, I believe, no very unusual thing, however unwilling we may be to avow it, for persons to give way to a kind of despair, when...

  • 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

    1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Corinthians 4:7; 1 Kings 6:13; 2 Chronicles 15:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    His name's sake — That is, for his own honour, which would suffer much among men, if he should not preserve and deliver his people in eminent dangers. And this reason God alledgeth to take them off fr...

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