1 Samuel 3:18

every whit Heb. -all the words," = every thing. Whitis derived from A.-S. wiht, thing.

It is the Lord He is Jehovah. For the depth of meaning involved in this confession, see Exodus 34:5-7. Eli, with all his faults, was still at heart faithful to God. He submits without a murmur to the divine sentence, leaving himself and his house in the hands of God. Compare the resignation of Aaron (Leviticus 10:3), Job (Job 1:21; Job 2:10), and Hezekiah (Isaiah 39:8). But it is the passive resignation of a weak character. Though he submitshimself patiently to the will of God, he would not rouse himself to doit.