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Selected Verse: 1 Samuel 12:6 - Updated King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Sa 12:6 |
Updated King James |
And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. |
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King James |
And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Advanced - In the sense of appointing them to their office. It is, literally, "made" (see the margin; Kg1 12:31; Heb 3:2). Samuel's purpose is to impress the people with the conviction that Yahweh was their God, and the God of their fathers; that to Him they owed their national existence and all their national blessings, and that faithfulness to Him, to the exclusion of all other worship Sa1 12:21 was the only safety of the newly-established monarchy. Observe the constant reference to the Exodus as the well-known turning-point of their national life (see Sa1 4:8; Sa1 6:6). |
6 Wherefore then do all of you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that stroke the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
21 And turn all of you not aside: for then should all of you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the low of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.