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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:6-15

Samuel, having sufficiently secured his own reputation, instead of upbraiding the people upon it with their unkindness to him, sets himself to instruct them, and keep them in the way of their duty, and then the change of the government would be the less damage to them. I. He reminds them of the great goodness of God to them and to their fathers, gives them an abstract of the history of their nation, that, by the consideration of the great things God had done for them, they might be for ever... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:9

And when they forgat the Lord their God ,.... The worship of the Lord their God, as the Targum; that is, they fell into idolatry, which is a plain instance and proof of forgetfulness of God; for such that neglect his worship, and serve idols, may be truly said to forget him: he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor ; who was general of the army of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor, Judges 4:2 , where they are said to be sold into the hands of Jabin,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:10

And they cried unto the Lord ,.... When in the hands of their enemies, and in bondage to them, and cruelly oppressed by them: and said, we have sinned ; the word for "said" is in the Cetib, or written text, singular, and in the Keri, or marginal reading, plural; and may signify, that everyone of them had a sense of their sin, and made acknowledgment of it; their confession was universal, as their sin was: because we have forsaken the Lord ; the Word of the Lord, as the Targum: and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:11

And the Lord sent Jerubbaal ,.... Or Gideon, as the Targum, for Jerubbaal was the name given to Gideon, when he first became a judge, Judges 6:32 . and Bedan ; if this was one of the judges, he must have two names, or is one that is not mentioned in the book of Judges; the Targum interprets it of Samson; so Jerom F8 Heb. Trad. in lib. Reg. fol. 75. K. , for the word may be rendered "in Dan"; one in Dan, who was of the tribe of Dan, as Samson was; and it was in the camp of Dan the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 12:9

The hand of Sisera - See these transactions in the book of Judges, Judges 4:2 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 12:11

Jerubbaal - That is, Gideon. And Bedan: instead of Bedan, whose name occurs nowhere else as a judge or deliverer of Israel, the Septuagint have Barak; the same reading is found in the Syriac and Arabic. The Targum has Samson. Many commentators are of this opinion; but Calmet thinks that Jair is intended, who judged Israel twenty-two years, Judges 10:3 . Instead of Samuel the Syriac and Arabic have Samson; and it is most natural to suppose that Samuel does not mention himself in this place.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:6-15

The immutable condition of well being. The facts are— 1 . Samuel, having shown his right to be heard, calls on the people to hearken to his argument. 2 . He refers to historic instances to show that trouble always came with unfaithfulness to God, and prosperity with a return to fidelity. 3 . He reminds them that their desire for a king implied distrust of God. 4 . Recognising the new order of things, he insists that the adversity or prosperity of the nation rested where it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:9

When they forgat Jehovah their God. The theocracy, as we have seen ( 1 Samuel 10:18 ), was a moral government, under which idolatry and the immorality attendant upon it, as being rebellion, were punished by Jehovah's withdrawing his protection, and the consequent subjection of the nation to foreign rule. It was the repeated sin, therefore, of the people which made Israel's history so checquered. Sisera ( 4:2 ), the Philistines ( 3:31 ), and Eaton, king of Moab. ( 3:12 ), are... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:10

We have served [the] Baalim and [the] Ashtaroth . I.e. the numerous Baals and Astartes, which were worshipped under various titles by the heathen. For though representing the same power, each people had their own epithets for their own particular personification of the god (see on 1 Samuel 7:4 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:11

Bedan . Numerous ingenious explanations of this name have been given, but the only probable account is that Bedan is a misreading for Barak. The two names are very similar in the Hebrew, and the two most ancient versions, the Septuagint and the Syriac, actually have Barak. And Samuel. This is even more puzzling than Bedan. We cannot suppose that Samuel, who hitherto had confined himself to the old deliverances, would thus suddenly introduce his own name. In mentioning only them he had... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:6-15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 12:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 12:11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:6-15

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:9

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:10

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 12:11

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