1 Samuel 12:23

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
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God forbid: Acts 12:5, Romans 1:9, Colossians 1:9, 1 Thessalonians 3:10, 2 Timothy 1:3

in ceasing: Heb. from ceasing

I will teach: Psalms 34:11, Proverbs 4:11, Ecclesiastes 12:10, Acts 20:20, Colossians 1:28

the good: 1 Kings 8:36, 2 Chronicles 6:27, Jeremiah 6:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:7 - pray Exodus 8:12 - General Exodus 18:16 - make Exodus 18:20 - the way Exodus 32:30 - Ye have Numbers 12:13 - General Joshua 22:29 - God forbid Joshua 24:16 - General 1 Samuel 7:5 - I will pray 1 Samuel 15:11 - he cried 1 Kings 13:6 - besought 1 Kings 21:3 - The Lord 2 Chronicles 34:29 - the king Psalms 73:2 - But Isaiah 37:4 - lift up Jeremiah 15:1 - Moses Jeremiah 27:18 - let them Jeremiah 42:2 - and pray Jeremiah 42:4 - I will pray Ezekiel 13:5 - have not Micah 6:8 - what is Acts 8:24 - Pray Acts 18:25 - instructed Romans 10:1 - my heart's Romans 12:7 - or he Ephesians 1:16 - Cease Colossians 4:2 - Continue 2 Peter 2:15 - forsaken

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, as for me,.... As he had given them reason to believe that God would forgive their sin, by which they had offended him, rejecting him as their King, so he likewise forgave their offence against him in rejecting him as their governor under him, and so neither need fear the Lord nor him with a servile fear; and as God would still be gracious to them, if they abode by his service, so he, Samuel, would do all the good offices for them that lay in his power:

God forbid that I should sin against the Lord, in ceasing to pray for you; for since they had returned to the Lord, and acknowledged their sin, it would have been an evil in him not to pray for them, that they might share in the pardoning grace and mercy of God, and have all good things bestowed upon them they stood in need of; this he judged to be his duty to do, and therefore abhorred the thought of being indifferent to it, negligent of it, or of dropping it:

but I will teach you the good and the right way; would not only pray for them, but instruct them in the way of their duty; a way that was a good one, agreeable to the will and word of God, and in walking in which good things were enjoyed, and which being a good way, must needs be a right way; though Samuel ceased to be a judge and chief magistrate among them, he should not cease to act the part of a prophet to them, both by his prayers and by his instructions.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 12:23. God forbid that I should sin — They had earnestly begged him, 1 Samuel 12:19, to pray to God for them, that they might not die; and he tells them that he should consider himself a sinner, should he cease to be their intercessor.

But I will teach you the good and the right way — I will show you, as long as I am with you, what true religion is; it is the way to happiness and heaven. It is right-there is no crookedness in it; it is good - there is no evil in it.