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

Bible Comments

There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. None holy - Holiness is peculiar to the God of Israel; no false god ever pretended to holiness; it was no attribute of heathenism, nor of any religion ever professed in the world before or since the true revelation of the true God.

There is none beside thee - There can be but one unoriginated, infinite, and eternal Being; that Being is Jehovah.

Any rock like our God - Rabbi Maimon has observed that the word צור tsur, which we translate rock, signifies, when applied to Jehovah, fountain, source, spring. There is no source whence continual help and salvation can arise but our God.

1 Samuel 2:2

2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.