In hours of deepest darkness and confusion be loyal to the text--only that, and nothing more. This way is pleasant and good. If you cast your eyes back to temporal favours, consider how He went clown with your fathers into Egypt, and what wonders he wrought for them in that land. With the voluntary devotedness of the heart and life, With constancy and perseverance. “For consider how great things He hath done for you.” We have had perils before, and they were averted. 1 Samuel 12:24, KJV : "Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you." Had they the promises in hope, and have not we them in mind? Gratitude, which loosed the tongue of Zechariah at the birth of John the Baptist, will loose his also, and cause him to glorify God with a loud voice. 2. Consider how great things he hath done for you. The opening chapters of 1 Samuel provide background for the institution of Israel’s monarchy. II. The Son and the Psalm of Hannah (1 Samuel 1:1-2:10) 3. Thus we see that amidst all the changes of the Hebrew state, their prophets steadily inculcated one and the same great principle, namely, that of fearing and serving the one true and living God, in spirit and in truth. Such a mode of expressing our gratitude by devoting our lives to the service of God is right and good. And this great purpose, notwithstanding all their revolts and rebellions, was still carried on, at least in a measure, and accomplished. 1832. Is it sufficient for us coldly to bless God with our lips; unconcernedly to enter into His holy temple, and unite with His people in declaring our thankfulness? “For consider what great things the Lord hath done for you.” This is seen: 1. And serve him in truth.] As he gave them saviours and deliverers, so have we had our Moseses, our Joshuas, our Kings in a settled government, who led us forward in the Gospel, where the former left us. “Only fear the Lord” Reverence implies:--, 1. 1. (J. The gift is but the shell; the grace of the giver the kernel. There is a just debt which all men to their own good name, especially men in public stations, which is, to guard it against unjust blame and suspicions, that they may finish their course with honour, as well as with joy. And thus in this place it serves Samuel’s purpose to bring home the mercies close to Israel. "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". i. It is this: Have you ever yet definitely by faith gone to God and asked Him, for Christ’s sake, to wash you in the Blood of the Lamb? https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/rbc/1-samuel-12.html. 1 Samuel 12:25 >] Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL, OTHERWISE CALLED THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS 1 Samuel 12:24(NASB) Verse Thoughts If we would but follow the wisdom contained in the Word of God, how our faith would be strengthened, and how our fear would dissolve into the sea of God’s gracious faithfulness. Beware how you affront His Majesty by want of reverence, or dishonour His goodness by servile dread. For the new initiative with Samuel, see especially Walter Brueggemann, First and Second Samuel: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching (Lousville: John Knox, 1990), 27-28. Had they the law written, and have not we? I remember once hearing a devout engine driver relate his religious experience. BibliographyClarke, Adam. BibliographyPoole, Matthew, "Commentary on 1 Samuel 12:24". But a day will surely come, which the rapid years are hurrying on, when we shall behold Him no longer armed as our Judge, but displaying Himself as reconciled to us and at one with us through Christ. Strife and conflict always characterize polygamous families in the Bible. Proceed in practical life to perform the duty that presents itself in the fear of God, live from day to day keeping close to conscience, and the Spirit shall teach you the true thing and the right way. 1 Samuel 12 – Samuel’s Speech at Saul’s Coronation A. Copyright StatementThese files are considered public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available in the Online Bible Software Library. 1. 2. Are you cleansed by faith in Calvary? Promising to do so, he dispelled their fears. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/1-samuel-12.html. And have not we one faithful in the house as the Son, and our great Joshua, a great Saviour, to lead us into the celestial Canaan? BibliographyBeza, Theodore. (1-3) Samuel talks about his leadership over Israel. Israel must consider for what the Lord hath wrought all these great things for them: And this, three ways. How are we to bridge over the interval, as it were, between fearing God and serving Him in truth with all our heart? In applying these words to ourselves let us: I. He knew nothing of the country through which be was passing, it was all silence and darkness and mystery, but keeping his eye on the Star of the North, it guided him to liberty. (H. Kollock, D. D.), God gives us remembrance in order that we may make great and blessed use of it. I. BibliographyWesley, John. 1876. John Trapp Complete Commentary. In the words are: 1. Listen to your great prophet Carlyle, to your great critic Ruskin, to your great poet Tennyson. “Great things.” These are words which Moses and David as well as Samuel use in speaking of God’s dealings. “Serve Him in truth with all your heart.” There is a sense in which all things serve God. But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. Eli is aged, both … Continue reading "Commentary on 1 Samuel 3:1-10 [11-20]" 1 Samuel 1:4-20. That man can reverence God. What other creatures on this earth can do this? Were there no rewards or punishments, no heaven or hell, He commands our service by what He is The Infinite Beauty claims our homage, the Infinite Righteousness our obedience. The beauty and bounty which, through the long cycle of the ages. If you cast your eye upon present things, consider how you have rebelled and cast the government of Jehovah from off your necks; and yet He forbeareth you, not plaguing you according to your demerits, but hath condescended to yield you a king. If men wrong us, God will right us, at farthest, in the judgment of the great day. Ingratitude, with respect to men, is ever considered by you as the evidence of a most abandoned character, as the unfailing mark of a total dereliction of every noble emotion; and yet how many of us, occupied by the cares of the world, engaged in the pursuit of a thousand frivolous objects, never feelingly remember the goodness of the Lord. The religious question comes before all others, it is the deepest question of all, it decides all others. Goodness, holiness, mercy when exhibited by our fellow men win our hearts and charm us into admiration, but how puny are even their highest development on earth compared with the display of them in the character of God! Christ uses it in many of His parables. All fiends human and angelic do this, III. And was the covenant of grace more peculiar, more sure, half so clear to Israel, as to us? But how shall this gratitude be expressed? What is the test? Passage: 1 Samuel 12:1-24 Intro: One of the most persistent misconceptions in the Christian life is that God’s grace is tied to our behavior. And it was upon a good principle that he refused to do it. A sense of Divine greatness. In Creation and Providence there is never conveyed to the mind any impression of effort or sacrifice on the part of the Supreme Being. How was it? God has been scattering over this earth, have not detracted from His boundless wealth. These words conclude the sum of the whole chapter, wherein Samuel had made a long narration of God’s dealing with His people, and theirs with Him. In the temporal provisions of His bounty. It may not be our lot while upon earth to realise the Majesty and Beauty of His attributes. 3. Still there is preserved that form of government in which we so deservedly rejoice. By heartiness. ‘Consider how great things He hath done for you.’. He hath done for you, or, among you, both at this time and formerly. 1 Samuel 12:24 Context. Only fear the Lord, and serve him with truth, Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Fear him not with a servile fear, which is before dehorted from, but with a filial fear, a reverential affection for God; and includes the whole of religious worship, internal and external; explained further by serving him according to the truth of his word, and in a cordial, sincere, and affectionate manner; and if this was wanting in them, he suggests that his prayers and instructions would be of little avail, and not to be depended on: for consider how great things he hath done for you; in bringing them out of Egypt: settling them in the land of Canaan; giving them his laws, statutes, commands, and ordinances; sending prophets unto them, and raising up judges for them, and bestowing all good things on them, in nature, providence, and grace; though some restrain this to the great thing he had done that day, to convince them of their sin, and by which they were returned to the Lord, namely, the violent storm of thunder; which wonderful instance of the power of God, and token of his displeasure against them, they were to lay up in their minds, and not forget, that it might be a means of preserving them from sin for the future. David bases his allegiance to Saul on religious grounds. 1 Samuel 1. Biblical Commentary 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: The book of First Samuel ends with the death of King Saul and his three sons (1 Samuel 31). 1 Samuel 12:24. Our text asks us to consider and see where we are. I presume in this way. 3. 1. quite simple. Let us consider the text in relation to national life. "Scofield Reference Notes (1917 Edition)". Act towards your God as an affectionate child should act towards a tender and loving parent. Joseph Benson's Commentary. There is a test which we must apply again and again whenever the least doubt arises as to whether we are God’s children and the heirs of glory. We have not got to be good in order to be saved. 1 SAMUEL. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsb/1-samuel-12.html. But it must be true and deep. Then the LORD sent Nathan to David. There was an intense, competitive relationship between the two wives, Peninnah (who had children) and Hannah (who had no children). The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds. “Serve Him in truth.” This distinguishes it from all mere external service, as well as from all hypocrisy. Now, neither of these, exclusive of the other, is the true principle of our obedience to God. And this victory was gained in the very same place where the Israelites received their former fatal loss. III. 1599-1645. But the parallel fails; He has given us Christ; the demand on our gratitude is transcendent, the claim for our service unparalleled. The conduct of Samuel, in this whole affair of the king's appointment, shows him to have been a great and good man who sank all private and personal considerations in disinterested zeal for his country's good and whose last words in public were to warn the people, and their king, of the danger of apostasy and disobedience to God. They were alarmed at the change they had made in their form of government; they were ashamed of the unbelief which had prompted the change; they were full of misgiving as to the consequences of this great political revolution Then Samuel speaks: Ye have done all this wickedness, yet turn not aside from following the Lord, and all shall still be right. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. How are we to get at the truth about ourselves and our standing before God and men? I. The book also marks the transition from priests to prophets as the central figure of God's dealing with Israel. For consider what great things he has done for you." Bible > Commentaries > 1 Samuel 17:26 ... Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. 2. she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you — People in the East always try to produce an effect by their presents, loading on several beasts what might be easily carried by one, and bringing them forward, article by article, in succession. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/1-samuel-12.html. It will deter us from sin; it will cheer and encourage us in the path of duty--that path which leads us unto everlasting life. Behold, then, the power and mercy of Jehovah! (Read 1 Samuel 24:8-15) David was falsely charged with seeking Saul's hurt; he shows Saul that God's providence had given him opportunity to do it. 1917. There could not, therefore, have been a stronger or more appropriate proof of a divine mission than the phenomenon of rain and thunder happening, without any prognostics of its approach, upon the prediction of a person professing himself to be a prophet of the Lord, and giving it as an attestation of his words being true. II. 3. Israel shall sat an higher price on the mercies, because they are the Lord’s; as you know it doubles the favour, to be from a friend, a father, or a dear hand. Of this Possession only Himself could be the Parallel. It gives up the strong staff and beautiful rod to be broken (Jeremiah 48:17). For none can reverence the morally unworthy. Intro. 5. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/1-samuel-12.html. It outlines the change from the theocracy established under Moses to the monarchy begun under [king] Saul. 2. We can imagine no motives for obedience either to an earthly or a heavenly father except either the value and certainty of the rewards proposed, coupled with a conviction of the ability and willingness of our father to confer them, or the apprehension of just and severe punishment for disobedience. 22 For the Lord wil not forsake his people, for his great Names sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people. And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own floc… We are good, if we are good, because the good God works in us; and any good works which we do are His works, and therefore the good works which we do, being His, give us no merit. To this principle David steadfastly adhered (see 1 Samuel 26:9; 2 Samuel 1:16). Another and proper, though inferior, motive is regard to reward. In truth - Be ever honest, ever sincere; with all your heart - have every affection engaged in the work of obedience; act not merely from a principle of duty, but also from a pious, affectionate sense of obligation. Only fear the Lord, and serve him with truth, &c. — Otherwise neither my prayers nor counsels will stand you in any stead. 1 Samuel 12:24 NIV But be sure to fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you. 1 samuel 24 commentary 1. 1. 1 Samuel 12:24. As the Lord gave Israel extraordinary victories and deliverances, which struck dread into all the nations about them, so hath He done for us, who have been made the head of nations, and not the tail, honoured and feared abroad, as well as happy at home. In all perplexities touching belief the best philosophy is the philosophy of the text. Thus we see that amidst all the changes of the Hebrew state, their prophets steadily inculcated one and the same great principle, namely, that of fearing and serving the one true and living God, in spirit and in truth. The religious sentiment revived in the Puritan saved us from the terrible despotism which the Stuarts sought to fasten upon up. 1 There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great [things] he hath done for you. All Rightes Reserved, Larry Pierce, Winterbourne, Ontario.A printed copy of this work can be ordered from: The Baptist Standard Bearer, 1 Iron Oaks Dr, Paris, AR, 72855. Often in our hearts may shine an afterglow of uncoruscating light from a sun that has set, more lustrous, more calm, more mellow, than when its hot fervours were falling on our heads--a pensive, clear, and still Indian summer of memory after the sultry autumn has gone. Some serve Him without their will. All the masses of matter, organised and inorganised, serve Him. Had they the true worship of God in shadows, and have not we in substances? How can we be really sure whether we are Christ’s or whether we are not. Hannah vowed a vow, "Yahweh, if you will look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, but will give to your handmaid a son, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head." Now, in our text Samuel has got to the deep and final law of human life--“Only fear the Lord.” Strange, complicated, contradictory, baffling as life seems, there is one simple principle, one sovereign passion, one master truth, that will solve for us every problem, subdue every opposition, and guide us safely through every difficulty. Let us be full of faith and spirituality; let us honour God and the higher law; let us be true to prayer, to worship, to God’s Holy Word; let us do our duty in the fear of God; and God will untie our knots, solve our problems, protect our liberties end glory, and lead us into a larger and richer inheritance. It is--if we may use the expression--an initial fear of God, it is the beginning of wisdom, it is the broken and contrite heart, looking with self-abasement yet with humble trust upon its omniscient Judge; and in proportion as we teal ourselves reconciled to Him in the face of Jesus Christ, the feeling will gradually ripen into that filial reverence accompanied by love which is the proper attitude of the justified soul towards its Maker. Hunt, M. I must go on to show the connection of the former clause of my text with the latter. 1 Samuel 25:19 - She said to her young men, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. On the other hand, if our service arose from our dread of the vengeance of God and nothing more, it would be deficient in that entire trust in His goodness, and free choice of His service which alone can make us acceptable in His sight. Ver. Israel must consider for whom God hath dons all these great works, namely for Israel. 1857. 3 And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in a to relieve himself. “Consider how great things He hath done for you.” Man can reflect on God, both on what He is in Himself and on what He does. for … Nay, is He not nearer unto us, even our Immanuel. Then Samuel took a stone — A rude, unpolished stone, which was not prohibited by that law, Leviticus 26:1, there being no danger of worshipping such a stone, and this being set up only as a monument of the victory. (A. Maclaren, D. D.). 1999. And yet He Who alone knew its worth yielded it up for us. BibliographyExell, Joseph S. "Commentary on "1 Samuel 12:24". This meaning is also at the foundation of the present passage, as Jehovah was the God-king of Israel. Consider how great things - Review the history of your fathers, review your own life; see what interpositions of power, mercy, goodness, and truth, God has displayed in your behalf! Thus we see that amidst all the changes of the Hebrew state, their prophets steadily inculcated one and the same great principle, namely, that of fearing and serving the one true and living God, in spirit and in truth. Biblical Commentary. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 12:24". "Commentary on 1 Samuel 12:24". 23 Moreouer, as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord, in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way. 1685. “Only fear the Lord.” “Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Gospel.” Does anyone cavil at these sayings as if they were not definite and illuminative? For none can reverence the contemptible or the small. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 12:24". Il) we sometimes say when something good ...read more II. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him. Jesus, “for the joy that was set before Him,” etc. A.). Fear the Lord, and serve him; otherwise neither my prayer nor counsels will stand you in any stead. These and many more are full of misgiving as they ponder the signs of the times. 3. 1 Samuel 12:24 New International Version (NIV) 24 But be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you. For surely if this terror were merely that servile dread which represents God as an implacable inexorable Being, the soul under such an impression would sit down inactive, overwhelmed with a horrible despair, and never engage in a fruitless attempt to appease a Power whom no prayers could interest, no repentance reconcile. With all your heart.] Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you. Notes: 1. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 12:24". Copyright StatementThe New John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible Modernised and adapted for the computer by Larry Pierce of Online Bible. What oracles had they, which we want? In giving us His Son.—God so loved you that, before you were born, Jesus Christ, His Son, came down from Heaven to die on Calvary’s Cross for you. Here your own meditations must supply what we can only intimate. Finding the new version too difficult to understand? Men of lesser genius seek to understand things superficially, and to correct them one by one, but the masters get to the root principle, the dominant law, the prevailing tendency. The crowning proof of God’s mercy we have reserved to the last--I mean His wondrous love and pity as displayed in the Redemption of the World by the death and passion of Christ. Only fear the Lord, and serve him with truth, &c. — Otherwise neither my prayers nor counsels will stand you in any stead. Whether Moses or Joshua, the elders, or judges, or kings, were their governors, this great point was kept in view, and pursued still. Can we think of His omniscience and omnipresence and justice without casting our meditations forward to that great day when we must all appear before His impartial tribunal? And is our God farther from us? The great scientist is he who discovers some wide-reaching law of nature which explains a thousand facts otherwise disconnected and inexplicable; the great historian is he who seizes some deep social law which determines the development of nations through long periods. But of Jesus, His well-beloved Son, He possessed no equivalent, no counterpart. “With all your heart.” There is to be vitality as well as sincerity, enthusiasm as well as thoroughness. He is at once the Governor of the World, and “Our Father which is in heaven.” Therefore, ere we can “serve God in truth with all our heart” our bosoms must be transfused with that fear of God which is made perfect in love. There are two other motives for serving God besides this one. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/1-samuel-12.html. For consider how great things, &c.] Mercy calleth for duty: deliverance commandeth obedience. BibliographyBenson, Joseph. The Lord forbid. Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your. New York. Fear him not with a servile fear, which is before dehorted from, but with a filial fear, a reverential affection for God; and includes the whole of religious worship, internal and external; explained further by serving him according to the truth of his word, and in a cordial, sincere, and affectionate manner; and if this was wanting in … Church Pulpit Commentary. He promised that he would not usurp God"s role by judging Saul or by rewarding him in kind for his evil deeds. Next, are we behind them in temporals? heart. I know also that it differs greatly from that composed reverence with which the soul in a condition of confirmed pardon and reconciliation looks upon God. The religious sentiment revived in Wesley and Whitefield saved us from atheism and its horrors when Voltaire with a light heart led the French nation into a sea of blood. It must be in truth with all our hearts. 24. Then Elkanah went to … And hath He not seated us in a land far exceeding that in commodity, as in quantity, four times as big, every way as fruitful. It is to be marked: 1. II. The first is to consider how great things they had seen God doing for them, and therein see what a tie and bond the Lord hath upon them to obey Him. II. The Biblical Illustrator. BibliographyGill, John. (T. Taylor, D. D.). ‘John Gough, who, after thirteen times being overcome by delirium tremens—a wreck, a human wreck—was enabled before the end of his life to take hold by faith of God’s omnipotence, so that God raised him up to be one of the very greatest of temperance advocates in the last century. "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". See the insightful remarks by Stephen B. Chapman, 1 Samuel as Christian Scripture: A Theological Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016), 87-89, to which I am indebted. “Polygamy was ever [always] a sin, though in … Abused mercies will bring a fearful weight of judgment upon us (J. The service characterised. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tbi/1-samuel-12.html. 2. Without diminution. Eben-ezer — That is, the stone of help. Thus he deals with the history of Israel, as an argument for their serving God. Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart. He said, “The other night when I was on duty there was a dense fog; we could not see a yard before us, but I knew that the permanent way was under us, and every now and then we caught a glimpse of some signal or other, and in time came safely to the journey’s end; so,” he said, “I know if I am true to the great commandments and promises God will guide and bring me through” (W. L. Samuel is now rebuking the people for demanding a king, and tells them of God's displeasure, saying that it would be manifested by a downpour of rain in the harvest season. "The Adam Clarke Commentary". And not only do these signs of the times, with fear of change, perplex monarchs, but they trouble many besides. 2. Still there is preserved unto us the inestimable privilege of worshipping God according, to the dictates of our own consciences. (Read 1 Samuel 12:1-5) Samuel not only cleared his own character, but set an example before Saul, while he showed the people their ingratitude to God and to himself. 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