1 Samuel 3:12 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

1 Samuel 3:12

10 Now the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant hears.”

11 Then the Lord said to Samuel: “Behold, I will do something in Israel ^aat which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

12 In that day I will perform against Eli ^aall that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

13 ^aFor I have told him that I will ^bjudge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because ^chis sons made themselves vile, and he ^ddid not restrain them.

14 And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house ^ashall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.”

15 So Samuel lay down until¹ morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel was afraid to tell Eli the vision.

16 Then Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son!” He answered, “Here I am.”

17 And he said, “What is the word that the Lord spoke to you? Please do not hide it from me. ^aGod do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that He said to you.”

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he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me—It is evident that his sleeping chamber was close to that of the aged high priest and that he was accustomed to be called during the night. The three successive calls addressed to the boy convinced Eli of the divine character of the speaker, and he therefore exhorted the child to give a reverential attention to the message. The burden of [the Lord's message] was an extraordinary premonition of the judgments that impended over Eli's house; and the aged priest, having drawn the painful secret from the child, exclaimed, "It is the Lord; let him do what seemeth him good." Such is the spirit of meek and unmurmuring submission in which we ought to receive the dispensations of God, however severe and afflictive. But, in order to form a right estimate of Eli's language and conduct on this occasion, we must consider the overwhelming accumulation of judgments denounced against his person, his sons, his descendants—his altar, and nation. With such a threatening prospect before him, his piety and meekness were wonderful. In his personal character he seems to have been a good man, but his sons' conduct was flagrantly bad; and though his misfortunes claim our sympathy, it is impossible to approve or defend the weak and unfaithful course which, in the retributive justice of God, brought these adversities upon him.

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