1 Samuel 12:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart; ”

1 Samuel 12:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: (m) yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart; (m) He shows that there is no sin...
1 Samuel 12:20 - 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 12:20 - 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-...
1 Samuel 12:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart; Ye have done all this wickedness - Tha...
1 Samuel 12:20 - 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 12:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness. — A very great and precious evangelical truth is contained in these comforting words of the great and good seer. They show how deeply this eminent servan...
1 Samuel 12:20 - 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 12:20 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:20 - 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 12:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(20) And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart; (21) And turn ye not aside: for t...
1 Samuel 12:20 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE ONLY WAY TO NATIONAL PROSPERITY ‘And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not; ye have done all this wickedness; yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart...
1 Samuel 12:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Samuel said unto the people, fear not ,.... Being destroyed by the tempest: ye have done all this wickedness ; in asking a king; that is, though they were guilty of so heinous a sin, yet there...
1 Samuel 12:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart; Ver. 20. Fear not, ] i.e., Despa...
1 Samuel 12:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord thy God Whom thou hast so great an interest in, while we are ashamed and afraid to call him our God. Fear not With a desponding fear, as if there are no hope left for you. But turn not...
1 Samuel 12:20 - 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 12:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Samuel Calls for Thunder; Samuel Encourages and Comforts Israel. B. C. 1069. 16 Now ther...
1 Samuel 12:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Fear not, to wit, with a servile and desponding fear, as if there were no hope left for you.
1 Samuel 12:20 - 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 12:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 12:20 It is the special and most perilous curse of sin that it obscures, or blots out altogether, or terribly distorts the vision of God in our hearts; it gradually reduces us to that mos...
1 Samuel 12:20 - 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 12:20 - 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 12:20 - 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 12:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Samuel Admonishes the People to Steadfastness
1 Samuel 12:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 3:16 ; Deuteronomy 11:16 ; Deuteronomy 31:29 ; Exodus 20:19 ; Exodus 20:20 ; Jeremiah 3:1 ; Joshua 23:6 ; Psalms 101:3 ; Psalms 125:5 ; Psalms 40:4
1 Samuel 12:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fear not — With a desponding fear, as if there were no hope left for you.

1 Samuel 12:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Samuel 12:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 Samuel 12:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 12:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 12:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 12:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 12:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 12:20 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 12:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 12:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Samuel 12:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 12:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 12:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 12:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 12:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 12:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 12:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Samuel 12:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 12:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Samuel 12:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 12:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes