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Verse 1 Samuel 12:2. _MY SONS_ ARE _WITH YOU_] It is generally agreed
that these words intimate that Samuel had deprived them of their
public employ, and reduced them to a level with the common people...
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MY SONS ARE WITH YOU - Possibly, however, a tinge of mortified feeling
at the rejection of himself and his family, mixed with a desire to
recommend his sons to the favor and goodwill of the nation, is...
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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
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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...
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_the king walketh before you_ Goes in and out in your presence in the
exercise of his regal authority.
_and I am old and gray-headed; and, behold my sons are with you_
Samuel refers to the two reasons...
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BEHOLD, THE KING WALKETH BEFORE YOU— When Samuel says, _and my sons
are with you,_ he seems to mean that the sons of whom they complained
are now in their hands, deprived of their public station, redu...
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_Samuel Reviews His Career._ 1 Samuel 12:1-5
And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your
voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
2 And now, behold, t...
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_AND NOW, BEHOLD, THE KING WALKETH BEFORE YOU: AND I AM OLD AND
GRAYHEADED; AND, BEHOLD, MY SONS ARE WITH YOU: AND I HAVE WALKED
BEFORE YOU FROM MY CHILDHOOD UNTO THIS DAY._
I am old and grey-headed....
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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 ...
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MY SONS] cp. 1 Samuel 8:1....
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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...
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AND NOW, BEHOLD, THE KING WALKETH BEFORE YOU. — No doubt, here
pointing to Saul by his side. The term “walketh before you implied
generally that the kingly office included the guiding and governing
th...
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וְ עַתָּ֞ה הִנֵּ֥ה הַ מֶּ֣לֶךְ ׀
מִתְהַלֵּ֣ךְ...
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CHAPTER XVI.
_ SAMUEL'S VINDICATION OF HIMSELF._
1 Samuel 12:1.
IT was a different audience that Samuel had to address at Gilgal from
either that which came to him to Ram ah to ask for a king, or th...
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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...
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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...
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Goeth, as your leader, according to your request. I am like a private
man, (Calmet) willing to submit to his and the people's judgment,
(Haydock) though it could not be required. (Menochius) ---
Grey-...
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(1) В¶ And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened
unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over
you. (2) And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am...
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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...
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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...
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AND NOW, BEHOLD, THE KING WALKETH BEFORE YOU,.... He invested with his
office, and in the exercise of it, and goes in and out as the captain,
commander, and leader of the people; it is expressive of h...
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And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and
grayheaded; and, behold, my sons [are] with you: and I have walked
before you from my childhood unto this day.
Ver. 2. _And now, behold,...
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_The king walketh before you_ Ruleth over you. To him I have fully
resigned my power, and own myself one of his subjects. _I am old_ And
therefore unable to bear the burden of government. _My sons are...
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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...
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SAMUEL PROTESTS HIS INTEGRITY...
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And now, behold, the king walketh before you, having charge of the
entire government of the people in peace and in war; AND I AM OLD AND
GRAY-HEADED, Cf 1 Samuel 8:5; AND, BEHOLD, MY SONS ARE WITH YOU...
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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...
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1-5 Samuel not only cleared his own character, but set an example
before Saul, while he showed the people their ingratitude to God and
to himself. There is a just debt which all men to their own good...
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WALKETH BEFORE YOU; goeth out and cometh in before you, i.e. ruleth
over you, as that phrase signifies, NUMBERS 27:17 DEUTERONOMY 31:2 2
CHRONICLES 1:10. To him I have fully resigned all my power and...
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1 Samuel 12:2 king H4428 walking H1980 (H8693) before H6440 old H2204
(H8804) grayheaded H7867 (H8804) sons...
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SAMUEL MAKES A CLEAN BREAK FROM HIS CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES (1 SAMUEL
12:1).
In his farewell speech Samuel begins by making clear that he is now
free from all civil responsibility for Israel. He wants...
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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...
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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...
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_I am now old and grey-headed._
A GOOD OLD AGE
A good old age has been cynically defined as “an age at which a man
is good for nothing;” but it is our own fault if we are good for
nothing in old age...
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_And Samuel said unto all Israel._
A STATESMAN’S RETROSPECT
The closing years in the life of Samuel, the last and greatest of the
judges, witnessed a transition in the method of governing the nation...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 2:22; 1 Samuel 2:29; 1 Samuel 3:13; 1 Samuel 3:16; 1 Samuel
3:
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Walketh — Ruleth over you. To him I have fully resigned my power,
and own myself one of his subjects. Old — And therefore unable to
bear the burden of government. My sons — Or, among you, in the same...