1 Samuel 12:22

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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the Lord: Deuteronomy 31:17, 1 Kings 6:13, 2 Kings 21:14, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Chronicles 15:2, Psalms 94:14, Isaiah 41:17, Isaiah 42:16, Jeremiah 33:24-26, Lamentations 3:31, Lamentations 3:32, Lamentations 5:20, Hebrews 13:5

for his great: Exodus 32:12, Numbers 14:13-19, Deuteronomy 32:26, Deuteronomy 32:27, Joshua 7:9, Psalms 106:8, Isaiah 37:35, Isaiah 43:25, Isaiah 48:11, Jeremiah 14:7, Jeremiah 14:21, Ezekiel 20:9, Ezekiel 20:14, Ephesians 1:6, Ephesians 1:12

it hath: Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 7:7, Deuteronomy 7:8, Deuteronomy 9:5, Deuteronomy 14:2, Malachi 1:2, Matthew 11:26, John 15:16, Romans 9:13-18, Romans 11:29, 1 Corinthians 4:7, Philippians 1:6

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:8 - thy people 1 Chronicles 17:22 - thy people Nehemiah 9:19 - in thy Esther 4:14 - then shall Psalms 22:1 - why hast Psalms 37:25 - yet Psalms 44:3 - because Psalms 50:7 - O my Psalms 135:4 - the Lord Psalms 149:2 - rejoice Isaiah 40:27 - sayest Isaiah 41:9 - I have chosen Isaiah 48:9 - my name's Jeremiah 14:9 - leave Jeremiah 51:5 - Israel Ezekiel 16:8 - thy time Romans 11:1 - Hath God Galatians 1:15 - it

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake. For the sake of himself, his honour and glory; should he forsake his people, and suffer them to come to ruin, his name would be blasphemed among the Heathens; he would be charged either with want of power to help them, or with want of faithfulness to his promise to them, and with inconstancy to himself, or want of kindness and affection for them; all which would reflect upon his honour and glory:

because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people; it was not owing to any worth or worthiness in them that they became his people, but to his own sovereign good will and pleasure; and therefore, as it was nothing in them that was the cause of their being taken by him for his people, so nothing in them could be the cause of their being rejected by him as such; it was of free grace and favour that they were taken into covenant with him, and by the same would be retained: the Vulgate Latin version is,

"the Lord hath sworn to make you a people for himself;''

so Jarchi interprets it, he swore, and takes it to have the same sense as in 1 Samuel 14:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 12:22. The Lord will not forsake his people — He will not as yet cast you off, though you have deserved it. His purpose in preserving them in their land and religion was not yet accomplished. It was not however for their sake that he would not cast them off, but for his own great name's sake. He drew his reasons from himself.