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

“ And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king. ”

1 Samuel 12:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, (g) Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king. (g) Leaving God to s...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

ye saw . Figure of speech Hysteresis, or Hysterologia (App-6), by which. prior event is recorded later. children-sons.
1 Samuel 12:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king. When ye saw that Nahash -...
1 Samuel 12:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king. No JFB commentary o...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Nahash the king of the children of Ammon. — It has been suggested, with great probability, that Nahash and the Ammonites had invaded the trans-Jordanic territory of Israel in the period immediately...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you ,.... Or "but yet" k; however, notwithstanding though the Lord had been so kind and gracious to them, as to raise up ju...
1 Samuel 12:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king. Ver. 12. Nay; but a ki...
1 Samuel 12:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When ye saw that Nahash came against you , &c. From this it appears that Nahash had levied war against them some time before he came against Jabesh-gilead, as mentioned in the foregoing chapter;...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A king shall reign over us: See Poole on " 1 Samuel 11:1 " . When the Lord your God was your king, i.e. when God was your immediate King and Governor, who was both able and willing to deliver you, i...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Samuel Protests his Integrity
1 Samuel 12:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 10:19 ; 1 Samuel 11:1 ; 1 Samuel 11:2 ; 1 Samuel 8:19 ; 1 Samuel 8:20 ; 1 Samuel 8:3 ; 1 Samuel 8:5 ; 1 Samuel 8:6 ; 1 Samuel 8:7 ; Exodus 19:5 ; Exodus 19:6 ; Genesis 17:7 ; Ho...
1 Samuel 12:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Your king — That is, when God was your immediate king and governor, who was both able and willing to deliver you, if you had cried to him, whereof you and your ancestors have had plentiful experien...

1 Samuel 12:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Samuel 12:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1 Samuel 12:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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

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

1 Samuel 12:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

1 Samuel 12:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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

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

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

1 Samuel 12:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 12:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 12:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Samuel 12:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

1 Samuel 12:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 12:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes