1 Samuel 12:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

1 Samuel 12:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 natio...
1 Samuel 12:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And now, behold, the king walketh (b) 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. (b) To govern you in...
1 Samuel 12:2 - 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 12:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. My sons are with you - It...
1 Samuel 12:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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, r...
1 Samuel 12:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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-h...
1 Samuel 12:2 - 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 12:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
1 Samuel 12:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVI. SAMUEL'S VINDICATION OF HIMSELF. 1 Samuel 12:1-5 . 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,...
1 Samuel 12:2 - 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 12:2 - 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 12:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
1 Samuel 12:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 o...
1 Samuel 12:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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, behol...
1 Samuel 12:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 ar...
1 Samuel 12:2 - 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 12:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Samuel's Discourse to Israel. B. C. 1069. 1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I h...
1 Samuel 12:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
1 Samuel 12:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Samuel Makes A Clean Break From His Civic Responsibilities ( 1 Samuel 12:1-5 ). In his farewell speech Samuel begins by making clear that he is now free from all civil responsibility for Israel. H...
1 Samuel 12:2 - 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 12:2 - 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 12:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 nat...
1 Samuel 12:2 - 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 12:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Samuel Protests his Integrity
1 Samuel 12:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 2:22 ; 1 Samuel 2:29 ; 1 Samuel 3:13 ; 1 Samuel 3:16 ; 1 Samuel 3:19 ; 1 Samuel 3:20 ; 1 Samuel 8:1 ; 1 Samuel 8:20 ; 1 Samuel 8:3 ; 1 Samuel 8:5 ; 2 Peter 1:14 ; 2 Timothy 4:6 ;...
1 Samuel 12:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 sa...

1 Samuel 12:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 12:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 12:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 12:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Samuel 12:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 12:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 12:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 12:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 12:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Samuel 12:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 12:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Samuel 12:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 12:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes