1 Samuel 12:1
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. WHOM. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "or whom", thus preserving the Figure of speech _Paradiastole_ (App-6) throughout verses: 1 Samuel 12:12; 1 Samuel 12:3 and 1 Samuel 12:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN'S. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
JACOB. Compare Genesis 46:6; Genesis 46:6. SENT. Compare Exodus 4:16. MADE. He caused. So Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4. OF HAZOR. Septuagint reads "of Jabin king of".... [ Continue Reading ]
SINNED. _Hebrew chata_ '. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BEDAN. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic read "and Barak" (the names being much alike in Hebrew). and Samuel. The Peshito (or Revised Syriac) reads "and Samson". But, if "Samuel", these are not Samuel's words, but Jehovah's in Samuel's mouth.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SAW. Figure of speech _Hysteresis,_ or _Hysterologia_ (App-6), by which. prior event is recorded later. children-sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Some codices, with three early printed editions. Syriac, and Vulgate, read "for".... [ Continue Reading ]
AS, &c. Septuagint reads "and against your king".... [ Continue Reading ]
SEND. It had to be sent, for rain in harvest was most exceptional; and would be regarded as sent in judgment. Compare Proverbs 26:1. WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _raa '._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
PRAY. Moses and Samuel specially named as intercessors. Psalms 99:6; Jeremiah 13:1. EVIL. Same word as "wickedness" above.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL NOT FORSAKE. Compare Genesis 28:15.Joshua 1:5. Quoted in Romans 11:1; Romans 11:2. HIS PEOPLE. a People for Himself.... [ Continue Reading ]