1 Samuel 12:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers. ”

1 Samuel 12:7 - 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 12:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers. Now therefore stand still - I have arraigned myse...
1 Samuel 12:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers. Now therefore stand still, that I may rea...
1 Samuel 12:7 - 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 12:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Now therefore... — Samuel proceeds in his painful work. See now, he says, we have advanced thus far in my solemn pleading. Stand up now, ye elders, while I proceed. My innocence, as your judge, you...
1 Samuel 12:7 - 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 12:7 - 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 12:7 - 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 12:7 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now therefore stand still ,.... Keep your place, and do not as yet break up the assembly, but wait a little longer patiently, and with reverence and attention hearken to what I have further to say:...
1 Samuel 12:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers. Ver. 7. Now therefore stand still. ] Bustle no...
1 Samuel 12:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Now, therefore, stand still Having obtained an honourable testimony from them as to his own conduct, he would not dismiss them till he had represented to them the great benefits which they had rece...
1 Samuel 12:7 - 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 12:7 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That I may reason with you: since God hath laid so great obligations upon you, let us a little consider whether you have answered them. The righteous acts, Heb. the righteousnesses , i.e. mercie...
1 Samuel 12:7 - 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...
1 Samuel 12:7 - 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 12:7 - 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 12:7 - 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 12:7 - 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 12:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Samuel Protests his Integrity
1 Samuel 12:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 17:3 ; Ezekiel 18:25-30 ; Isaiah 1:18 ; Isaiah 5:3 ; Isaiah 5:4 ; Judges 5:11 ; Micah 6:2 ; Micah 6:3
1 Samuel 12:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Righteous acts — Heb. the righteousnesses; that is, mercies or benefits the chief subject of the following discourse; some of their calamities being but briefly named, and that for the illustration...

1 Samuel 12:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 12:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 12:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Samuel 12:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Samuel 12:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Samuel 12:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Samuel 12:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 12:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Samuel 12:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 12:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 12:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 12:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 12:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Samuel 12:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 12:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Samuel 12:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Samuel 12:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Samuel 12:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 12:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes