1 Samuel 12:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advancedb Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. ”

• 1 Samuel 12:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Advanced - In the sense of appointing them to their office. It is, literally, “made” (see the margin; 1 Kings 12:31 ; Hebrews 3:2 ). Samuel’s purpose is to impress the people with the convictio...

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - 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 12:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - 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 12:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron. — The Hebrew should be rendered, “even the Eternal that advanced Moses and Aaron.” The elders of Israel ( 1 Samuel 12:5 ) had with one consent cried ou...

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - 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 12:6 - 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...

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - 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 12:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (6) В¶ And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD 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 reason with...

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Samuel said unto the people ,.... Having cleared and established his own character, he proceeds to lay before the people some of the great things God had done for them formerly, and quite down t...

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Samuel said unto the people, [It is] the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. Ver. 6. It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron. ]...

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - 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 12:6 - 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...

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That for your sakes raised, constituted, and exalted Moses and Aaron to that great power and reputation which they had, and used, to deliver you.

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - 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...

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - 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 12:6 - 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 12:6 - 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 12:6 - 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 12:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Samuel Protests his Integrity

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• 1 Samuel 12:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 6:26 ; Hosea 12:13 ; Isaiah 63:7-14 ; Micah 6:4 ; Nehemiah 9:9-14 ; Psalms 105:26 ; Psalms 105:41 ; Psalms 77:19 ; Psalms 77:20 ; Psalms 78:12-72 ; Psalms 99:6

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