1 Samuel 12:18 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 12:18

So Samuel called to the LORD, and on that day the LORD sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

BSB

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ASV

So Samuel called unto Jehovah; and Jehovah sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared Jehovah and Samuel.

KJV

So Samuel called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

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Commentary

5 voices

Jerome

HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 26 (PS 98) (420)

As a matter of fact, the works Moses did, Samuel did too. Moses resisted God and prevented him from destroying his people when God said to him, "Let me alone, that I may strike this people." Just see the power of Moses! What does God say to him? Let me alone; you are compelling me, your prayers, as it were, restrain me; your prayers hold back my hand. I shoot an arrow; I hurl a javelin; and your prayers are the shield of the people. Let me alone that I might strike down this people.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

So Samuel called unto the Lord,.... Not in an authoritative way, or by way of command, but by prayer; so the Targum renders the clause in the preceding verse,"I will pray before the Lord:" and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day; immediately, though there was no appearance of it; it was harvest time, and a fine harvest day.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But Samuel made it to appear that this was designed by the almighty power of God on purpose to convince them that they had done very wickedly in asking a king; not only by its coming in an unusual time, in wheat-harvest, and this on a fair clear day, when there appeared not to the eye any signs of a storm, but by his giving notice of it before.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The Lord sent thunder and rain that day - This was totally unusual; and, as it came at the call of Samuel, was a most evident miracle. Greatly feared the Lord - They dreaded His terrible majesty; and they feared Samuel, perceiving that he had so much power with God.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקְרָ֤א	vai.yik.Ra'	and he called out	H7121 →
שְׁמוּאֵל֙	she.mu.'El	Samuel	H8050 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וַיִּתֵּ֧ן	vai.yi.Ten	and he gave	H5414 →
יְהוָ֛ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
קֹלֹ֥ת	ko.Lot	thunder claps	H6963 →
וּמָטָ֖ר	u.ma.Tar	and rain	H4306 →
בַּיּ֣וֹם	bai.Yom	on the day	H3117 →
הַה֑וּא	ha.Hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
וַיִּירָ֨א	vai.yi.Ra'	and it feared	H3372 →
כָל־	khol-	all	H3605 →
הָעָ֥ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
מְאֹ֛ד	me.'Od	exceedingly	H3966 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
שְׁמוּאֵֽל׃	she.mu.'El	Samuel	H8050 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 14:31
When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.
leads to
- John 2:11
  Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
- John 11:45
  Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
- John 2:23–25
  While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
- John 8:30–32
  As Jesus spoke these things, many believed in Him.
- 2 Chronicles 20:20
  Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the…
Through
Ezra 10:9
So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house…
leads to
- 1 Samuel 12:17–18
  Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the…
- Ezra 7:8–9
  Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king.
- Esther 2:16
  She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

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