1 Samuel 3:15-18 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:11-18

Here is, I. The message which, after all this introduction, God delivered to Samuel concerning Eli's house. God did not come to him now to tell him how great a man he should be in his day, what a figure he should make, and what a blessing he should be in Israel. Young people have commonly a great curiosity to be told their fortune, but God came to Samuel, not to gratify his curiosity, but to employ him in his service and send him on an errand to another person, which was much better; and yet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:15

And Samuel lay until the morning ,.... It is not said he slept; it can hardly be thought he should, when it is considered what a new, strange, and uncommon thing had befallen him; what honour had been conferred on him a child, that the Lord should vouchsafe to speak and communicate his mind to him, and what dreadful things were said of Eli's family; all which must greatly affect his mind, and keep him waking: however, he lay musing thereon until morning, and then arose: and opened the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:16

Then Eli called Samuel ,.... Perceiving he was risen by the opening of the doors of the tabernacle, which he might hear; and observing he did not come to him as usual, to know whether he wanted anything, and being impatient to hear what was said to him of the Lord: and he said, Samuel, my son ; called him by his name, and in a very tender and affectionate manner, the more to engage him to hasten to him, and thereby also putting him in mind of his filial duty to obey him: and he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:17

And he said, what is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee ?.... The word "Lord" is not in the text, but it is "that it hath said"; the voice that had so often called him in the night, and which yet Eli knew was the voice of the Lord; and as it was, he was sensible there was something of importance said, and he had great reason to believe it respected him and his family; and the rather he might conclude this, by what the man of God had lately said to him, whose words perhaps he had... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:18

And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him ,.... And so approved himself to be a faithful prophet of God, and man of God, as he is afterwards called; the whole counsel of God is to be declared by his servants the prophets, and the ministers of his word; nothing is to be concealed, which it is the will of God should be made known, whether it be pleasing or displeasing to man: and he said, it is the Lord ; that has said it, and there is nothing to be said against it, and that... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 3:15

Samuel feared to show Eli - He reverenced him as a father, and he feared to distress him by showing what the Lord had purposed to do. It does not appear that God had commanded Samuel to deliver this message: he, therefore, did not attempt it till adjured by Eli, 1 Samuel 3:17 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 3:17

God do so to thee , and more also - This was a very solemn adjuration: he suspected that God had threatened severe judgments, for he knew that his house was very criminal; and he wished to know what God had spoken. The words imply thus much: If thou do not tell me fully what God has threatened, may the same and greater curses fall on thyself. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 3:18

Samuel told him every whit - Our word whit, or wid, comes from the Anglo-Saxon, which signifies person, thing, etc.; every whit is every thing. The Hebrew הדברים כל את et col haddebarim , "all these words." It is the Lord - He is Sovereign, and will do what he pleases; he is righteous, and will do nothing but what is just. Let him do what seemeth him good - There is much of a godly submission, as well as a deep sense of his own unworthiness, found in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:1-18

The old priest and the child prophet. Every imagination must be struck by the contrast between the old man and the child. The more so, that the natural order of things is reversed. Instead of admonition to the child coming through the lips of age, admonition to the aged came through the lips of childhood. 1. THE CHARACTER OF ELI ILLUSTRATED . 1 . His good points. The Lord had ceased to speak to or by Eli; but when the old priest perceived that the Lord had spoken to the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:15

Samuel … opened the doors. In Exodus 26:36 : Exodus 36:37 , the word used, though translated door, really means an opening, protected by a hanging curtain. The word used here means double or folding doors of wood, and we must therefore conclude that solid buildings had grown up round the tabernacle (see on 1 Samuel 1:9 ), and a wall for its defence in case of invasion, or the assault of predatory tribes. The confiding the keys of these enclosures to Samuel shows that he was no... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:11-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 3:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 3:17

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 3:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 3:15

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