1 Samuel 12:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king. ”

• 1 Samuel 12:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wheat harvest - Between May 15 and June 15. Jerome’s testimony (that of an eye-witness) “I have never seen rain in the end of June, or in July, in Judaea” is borne out by modern travelers.

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  [Is it] not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness [is] (k) great, which ye have done in the sight of t...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - 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 12:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  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.

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 293 THE ISRAELITES’ REJECTION OF SAMUEL REPROVED 1 Samuel 12:16-23 . Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes. Is it not wheat harvest to-...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the L...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Now, therefore, stand and see, &c.— Rain indiscriminately in the winter months, and none at all in the summer, is what is most common in the East; so it is at Aleppo, and about Algiers:...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the L...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - 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 12:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Is it not wheat harvest day? — The Canaan wheat harvest is between the middle of May and the middle of June. Rain in that season seldom or never falls, but if it does it is usually severe. This is...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - 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 12:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  His Warning Confirmed from Heaven 1 Samuel 12:14-25 Having handed his office over to Saul, who henceforth was to shepherd and lead the Chosen People, Samuel assured them that the Lord would not...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - 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 12:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (16) В¶ Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes. (17) Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Is it not wheat harvest today ?.... Of the time of wheat harvest, 1 Samuel 6:13 . Rain usually fell in Judea only twice a year, called the former and the latter rain; and from the seventeenth of Ni...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  1 Samuel 12:17 [Is it] not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness [is] great, which ye have done in t...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Is it not wheat-harvest to-day? At which time it was a rare thing in those parts to have thunder or rain; the weather being more constant in its seasons than it is with us, and the rain being wont...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - 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 12:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Samuel Calls for Thunder; Samuel Encourages and Comforts Israel. B. C. 1069.       16 Now ther...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  At wheat harvest it was a rare thing in those parts to have thunder or rain, as the Scripture oft implies; and St. Jerome affirms, who was an eye-witness of it; the weather being more constant and...

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - 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 12:17 - 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 12:17 - 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 12:17 - 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 12:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Samuel Admonishes the People to Steadfastness

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 7:10 ; 1 Samuel 7:9 ; 1 Samuel 8:7 ; James 5:16-18 ; Jeremiah 15:1 ; Joshua 10:12 ; Proverbs 26:1 ; Psalms 99:6

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• 1 Samuel 12:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Wheat — harvest — At which time it was a rare thing in those parts to have thunder or rain; the weather being more constant in its seasons there, than it is with us. Rain — That you may understand...

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