1 Samuel 12:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe. ”

• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Bedan - No such name occurs among the Judges who delivered Israel. Some versions and commentators read “Barak,” the form of the letters of both words being in Hebrew somewhat similar. And Samu...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, (f) and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe. (f) That is Samson, ( Judges 13:25 ).

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - 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 12:1-6 a (to witness). In response to a solemn ad...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  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 no...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe. Jerubbaal - That is, Gideon. And Bedan: instead...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel— Houbigant, after several of the versions, reads, Jerubbaal, Deborah and Barak, Jephthah and Samson. St. Paul seems to confirm this re...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe. Bedan. The Septuagint reads Barak; and...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Samuel resigns his Judgeship This chapter is a continuation of 1 Samuel 10:17-24 , and the scene of the events recorded is the great national assembly at Mizpeh. Notice, however, the reference to...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And the Lord sent Jerubbaal. — Again the speaker only names a few of the God-sent deliverers, just the most prominent of their great and famous heroes. Gideon was surnamed Jerubbaal out of scorn an...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XVII. SAMUEL'S DEALINGS WITH THE PEOPLE. 1 Samuel 12:6-25 . 2. HAVING vindicated himself (in the first five verses of this chapter, 1 Samuel 12:1-5 ), Samuel now proceeds to his secon...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Samuel's Last Message to Israel 1 Samuel 12:1-13 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 peo...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - 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 wa...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (8) When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place. (9) And...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the Lord sent Jerubbaal ,.... Or Gideon, as the Targum, for Jerubbaal was the name given to Gideon, when he first became a judge, Judges 6:32 and Bedan ; if this was one of the judges, he mu...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe. Ver. 11. And Bedan. ] That is, Barak, accord...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And Bedan We have no mention of Bedan in the book of Judges or elsewhere before, and therefore many commentators think this is another name for Barak. Others, however, think Samson to be the person...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - L. 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 i...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the L ORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.   7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reaso...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Bedan is certainly one of the judges; and because there is no judge so called in the Book of Judges, it is reasonably concluded that this was one of the judges there mentioned having two names, as...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Samuel First Briefly Recounts The History of YHWH's Goodness In Appointing Deliverers In Order To Deliver Them (The Way In Which He Has Chosen To Rule Them), And Yet Even Then They Have Continually...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - 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 chap...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - 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 Samu...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - 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 p...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Samuel Protests his Integrity

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 7:13 ; Judges 11:1-33 ; Judges 16:31 ; Judges 6:14 ; Judges 6:32 ; Judges 8:29 ; Judges 8:35

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• 1 Samuel 12:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Bedan — This was either Samson, as most interpreters believe, who is called Bedan; that is, in Dan, or of Dan, one of that tribe, to signify that they had no reason to distrust that God, who could...

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