1 Samuel 12:17

Contextual Overview

¹⁶"Now then, stand still and see this great thing the LORD is about to do before your eyes! ¹⁶ "Now then, stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes! ¹⁶Even now, take your stand and see this great thing which Yahweh will do before your eyes. ¹⁶ "Even now, take your stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes. ¹⁶ Now also stand, & see this great thing whiche the Lorde will do before your eyes. ¹⁶ "Now stand still and see the great thing the Lord will do before your eyes. ¹⁶ Also, now present yourselves and see this great thing that Jehovah will do before your eyes. ¹⁶ Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes. ¹⁶ Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do before your eyes. ¹⁶ Now therefore stand and see this great thing which the Lord will doe before your eyes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Is it: In northern latitudes, thunder and rain are far from being un-common during harvest. But rain is hardly ever known in Palestine during that season, which commences about the end of June, or beginning of July. This fact is abundantly confirmed by modern travellers, and is demonstrative to every unprejudiced reader of the Holy Scriptures, that the thunder and rain, which at Samuel's invocation, was sent at this season of the year, was a miraculous interposition of the power of God; for we read in 1 Samuel 12:16, it was a "great thing which the Lord will do." Thus were the Israelites warned of their sin in having asked a king, and of the omnipotence of that God, whose gracious promises they virtually neglected by this act. Proverbs 26:1

I will call: 1 Samuel 7:9, 1 Samuel 7:10, Joshua 10:12, Psalms 99:6, Jeremiah 15:1, James 5:16-18

your wickedness: 1 Samuel 8:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:23 - the Lord sent Exodus 19:16 - thunders Judges 2:17 - they would 1 Samuel 8:5 - now make 1 Samuel 8:6 - displeased 1 Samuel 10:19 - And ye have 1 Samuel 11:15 - rejoiced greatly 1 Samuel 31:6 - General 2 Samuel 22:14 - thundered Ezra 10:9 - trembling Job 38:28 - Hath the Isaiah 29:6 - General Jeremiah 10:13 - maketh

Cross-References

Genesis 12:14
When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman.

Genesis 12:14
When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.

Genesis 12:14
Now it happened when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:14
It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:14
And so when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman, for she was very fayre.

Genesis 12:14
So when Abram went into Egypt, the Egyptian men saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.

Genesis 12:14
When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:14
And so whanne Abram hadde entrid in to Egipt, Egipcians sien the womman that sche was ful fair; and the prynces telden to Farao, and preiseden hir anentis him;

Genesis 12:14
And it came to passe, that when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman, that shee was very faire.

Genesis 12:14
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Is it not wheat harvest today?.... Of the time of wheat harvest, :-. Rain usually fell in Judea only twice a year, called the former and the latter rain; and from the seventeenth of Nisan or March, to the sixteenth of Marchesvan or October, it was not usual for rain to fall, and so not in harvest, at that time especially, see Proverbs 26:1. R. Joseph Kimchi says, in the land of Israel rain never fell all the days of harvest; and this is confirmed by Jerom, who lived long in those parts; who says o, at the end of the month of June, and in the month of July, we never saw rain in those provinces, especially in Judea. And Samuel not only by putting this question would have them observe that it was the time of wheat harvest in general, but on that day in particular the men, were at work in the fields reaping the wheat, c. and so was not cloudy, and inclining to rain, but all serene and clear, or otherwise they would not have been employed in cutting down the corn all which made the following case the more remarkable:

I will call unto the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain; in a miraculous and preternatural way, there being nothing in nature preparatory thereunto, and this purely at the prayer of Samuel:

that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking you a king; was attended with aggravated circumstances, and highly offensive to God, though he had gratified them in it, of which this violent storm would be an indication, and might serve to convince them of their folly, as well as of their wickedness, and that they had no need of a king, since Samuel their judge could do as much or more by his prayers than a king could do by his sword; and of which they had had sufficient proof before this, and that in the same way, 1 Samuel 7:10.

o Comment. in Amos iv. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wheat harvest - Between May 15 and June 15. Jerome’s testimony (that of an eye-witness) “I have never seen rain in the end of June, or in July, in Judaea” is borne out by modern travelers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 12:17. Is it not wheat harvest to-day? — That is, This is the time of wheat harvest. According to St. Jerome, who spent several years in the promised land, this harvest commenced about the end of June or beginning of July, in which he says he never saw rain in Judea: Nunquam enim in fine mensis Junii, sive in mense Julio, in his provinciis, maximeque in Judea, pluvias vidimus. - HIER. in Amos 4:7; where he refers to this very history. What occurred now hardly ever occurs there but in the winter months.