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1 Samuel 12:10

in 1 Samuel 12

Then they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, that we may serve You.’

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they cried unto Jehovah, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Jehovah, and have served the Baalim and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.

KJV

And they cried unto the Lord, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.

This verse in 1 Samuel 12

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

He sold them into the hand of Sisera

on 1 Samuel 12:9-11

The judges named, Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah and Samuel, summarize the cycle of forgetting and crying out that Judges tells in full. Samuel names himself last, counting his own office among the LORD's saving acts, which Albert Barnes calls fitting given how recent that deliverance was.

This site's exposition

served the Baals and Ashtoreths

Samuel gives Israel the confession it made at Judges 10:10, and Albert Barnes finds his order of oppressors in the next verse there. His own hearers had put away the Baals and Ashtoreths at 7:4, at Samuel's call. The words were their own.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Gregory the Dialogist

Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 2 · Written before 604.

proposed

Enumerating these same mercies, he says: "How Jacob entered into Egypt, and our fathers cried out to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and He brought our fathers out of Egypt, and settled them in this place. And because they forgot the Lord their God, He delivered them into the hand of Sisera, the commander of the army of Asshur, and into the hands of the Philistines, and of the king of Moab, and they fought against you.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And they cried unto the Lord,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Let not them imitate the sins of their fathers, for what they had done amiss they had many a time wished undone again. In the day of their distress they had sought unto God, and had promised to serve him; let their children then reckon that good at all times which they found good in bad times.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּזְעֲק֤וּand they cried out

    vaiyizakuH2199 →73 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַיֹּאמְר֣וּand they said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • חָטָ֔אנוּwe have sinned

    chatanuH2398 →238 times

  • כִּ֤יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • עָזַ֙בְנוּ֙we have forsaken

    ʾazavnuH5800 →215 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַנַּעֲבֹ֥דand we have served

    vanaavodH5647 →288 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַבְּעָלִ֖יםthe Baals

    habealimH1168 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הָעַשְׁתָּר֑וֹתthe Ashtaroth

    haashtarotH6252 →12 times

  • וְעַתָּ֗הand now

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • הַצִּילֵ֛נוּdeliver us

    hatzilenuH5337 →212 times

  • מִיַּ֥דfrom [the] hand of

    miyadH3027 →1618 times

  • אֹיְבֵ֖ינוּenemies our

    ʾoyeveinuH341 →282 times

  • וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃so we may serve you

    venaavdekaH5647 →288 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Judges 10:10

    Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”

    it leads to

    • Psalms 107:28

      Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.

    • Psalms 107:19

      Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

    • Psalms 107:13

      Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

  • Through

    Judges 3:9

    But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.

    it leads to

    • Judges 3:15

      And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

    • Psalms 22:5

      They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.

    • Judges 1:13

      So Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

  • Through

    Judges 2:13

    for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

    it leads to

    • Judges 10:6

      And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus…

  • Through

    Judges 3:7

    So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 34:13

      Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Samuel

Anointing of David by Samuel, Félix-Joseph Barrias, 1842, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Public domain.
Anointing of David by Samuel, Félix-Joseph Barrias, 1842, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Gregory the Dialogist, Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.