1 Samuel 12:7 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

1 Samuel 12:7

5 Then he said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day, ^athat you have not found anything ^bin my hand.” And they answered, “He is witness.”

6 Then Samuel said to the people, ^a“It is the Lord who raised up Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt.

7 Now therefore, stand still, that I may ^areason with you before the Lord concerning all the ^brighteous acts of the Lord which He did to you and your fathers:

8 ^aWhen Jacob had gone into Egypt, and your fathers ^bcried out to the Lord, then the Lord ^csent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.

9 And when they ^aforgot the Lord their God, He sold them into the hand of ^bSisera, commander of the army of Hazor, into the hand of the ^cPhilistines, and into the hand of the king of ^dMoab; and they fought against them.

10 Then they cried out to the Lord, and said, ^a‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord ^band served the Baals and Ashtoreths; but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve You.’

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HE REPROVES THE PEOPLE FOR INGRATITUDE. (I Samuel 12:6-16)

Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you—The burden of this faithful and uncompromising address was to show them, that though they had obtained the change of government they had so importunely desired, their conduct was highly displeasing to their heavenly King; nevertheless, if they remained faithful to Him and to the principles of the theocracy, they might be delivered from many of the evils to which the new state of things would expose them. And in confirmation of those statements, no less than in evidence of the divine displeasure, a remarkable phenomenon, on the invocation of the prophet, and of which he gave due premonition, took place.

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