Tree of Life Version
1 Samuel 12:22
22For Adonai will not forsake His people for His great Name’s sake, because it has pleased Adonai to make you a people to Himself.
1 Samuel 12:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.
- New International Version (NIV)For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was pleased to make you his own.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For the Lord will not forsake His people, for His great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you His people.
Context of 1 Samuel 12:22
20Samuel said to the people, “Fear not! Indeed you have done all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following Adonai, but worship Adonai with all your heart. 21Do not turn aside to go after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are futile. For Adonai will not forsake His people for His great Name’s sake, because it has pleased Adonai to make you a people to Himself. 23Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Adonai by ceasing to pray for you! Yet I will keep instructing you in the good and straight way. 24Only fear Adonai and worship Him in truth with all your heart, considering how magnificently He has dealt with you.
Read all of 1 Samuel 121 Samuel 12:22 word by word
כִּ֠י לֹֽא־יִטֹּ֤שׁ יְהוָה֙ אֶת־עַמּ֔וֹ בַּעֲב֖וּר שְׁמ֣וֹ הַגָּד֑וֹל כִּ֚י הוֹאִ֣יל יְהוָ֔ה לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת אֶתְכֶ֛ם ל֖וֹ לְעָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Samuel 12:22
- Deuteronomy 31:17Then My anger will flare against them on that day, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them. So they will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will come on them. They will say on that day, ‘Isn’t it because our God is not among us that these evils have come on us?’
- 1 Kings 6:13I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.”
- 2 Kings 21:14Then I will cast off the remnant of My inheritance and hand them over to their enemies—they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies.
- 1 Chronicles 28:9“Now you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for Adonai searches all hearts and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
- 2 Chronicles 15:2He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Listen to me Asa, all Judah and Benjamin. Adonai is with you as long as you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will spurn you.
- Psalms 94:14For Adonai will not forsake His people. He will never abandon His inheritance.
- Isaiah 41:17“The poor and needy ask for water, but there is none, Their tongues are parched with thirst. I, Adonai, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- Isaiah 42:16I will bring the blind by a way they do not know. in paths they have not known, I will guide them. I will turn darkness before them to light and the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.
- Jeremiah 33:24“Have you not noticed what this people have spoken, saying: ‘The two families which Adonai did choose, He has rejected them’? Thus they despise My people—no longer a nation before them.”
- Lamentations 3:31For the Lord will not reject forever.
- Lamentations 5:20Why do You always forget us and forsake us for so long?
- Hebrews 13:5Keep your lifestyle free from the love of money, and be content with what you have. For God Himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you,”
- Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians say, ‘He brought them out to do evil, to slay them in the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth?’ Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this destruction against Your people.
- Numbers 14:13Moses said to Adonai, “The Egyptians will hear about it, because You brought up this people by Your power from among them.
- Deuteronomy 32:26I would have said, ‘I will hack them to pieces, make the memory of them cease from mankind,’
- Joshua 7:9For when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear of it, they will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great Name?”
Commentaries on 1 Samuel 12:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22The 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.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-25Verses 16-25 At Samuel's word, God sent thunder and rain, at a season of the year when, in that country, the like was not seen. This was to convince them they had done wickedly in asking a king; not only by its coming at an unusual time, in wheat harvest, and on a clear day, but by the prophet's giving notice of it before. He showed their folly in desiring a king to save them, rather than God, or Samuel; promising themselves more from an arm of flesh…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22for the sake of His great name: He always keeps his promises, even if his people do not (see also Isaiah 37:35; 43:25; 48:9–11). His people: Israel, are his treasured possession (see Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 9:25–29). He will never abandon them (see Romans 11:1–5, 25–32).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 17-2517-25. Is it not wheat harvest to-day?--That season in Palestine occurs at the end of June or beginning of July, when it seldom or never rains, and the sky is serene and cloudless. There could not, therefore, have been a stronger or more appropriate proof of a divine mission than the phenomenon of rain and thunder happening, without any prognostics of its approach, upon the prediction of a person professing himself to be a prophet of the Lord, and giving…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Samuel 12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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