1 Samuel 12:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. ”

• 1 Samuel 12:18 - 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 12:18 - 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 12:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. The Lord sent thunder and rain that day - This was totally unusual;...

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• 1 Samuel 12:18 - 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 12:18 - 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 12:18 - 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 12:18 - 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 12:18 - 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 12:18 - 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 12:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So Samuel called unto the Lord ,.... Not in an authoritative way, or by way of command, but by prayer; so the Targum renders the clause in the preceding verse, "I will pray before the Lord:'' and...

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• 1 Samuel 12:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. Ver. 18. And the Lord sent thunder and rain that day. ] Out of t...

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• 1 Samuel 12:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The Lord sent thunder and rain Such was the power and favour with God that this man of God possessed! By this thunder and rain, God showed them their folly in desiring a king to save them, rather t...

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• 1 Samuel 12:18 - 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 12:18 - 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 12:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Who had such great power and favour with God.

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• 1 Samuel 12:18 - 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 12:18 - 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 12:18 - 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 12:18 - 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 12:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Samuel Admonishes the People to Steadfastness

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• 1 Samuel 12:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 14:31 ; Exodus 9:23-25 ; Ezra 10:9 ; Psalms 106:12 ; Psalms 106:13 ; Revelation 11:5 ; Revelation 11:6

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• 1 Samuel 12:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Samuel — Who had such power and favour with God. By this thunder and rain, God shewed them their folly in desiring a king to save them, rather than God or Samuel, expecting more from an arm of fles...

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