1 Samuel 3:7 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 3:7

Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, because the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Now Samuel did not yet know Jehovah, neither was the word of Jehovah yet revealed unto him.

KJV

Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Did not know - He was not acquainted with God in that extraordinary or prophetical way. And this ignorance of Samuel's served God's design, that his simplicity might give Eli the better assurance of the truth of God's call, and message to Samuel.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּשְׁמוּאֵ֕ל	u.she.mu.'El	and Samuel	H8050 →
טֶ֖רֶם	Te.rem	not yet	H2962 →
יָדַ֣ע	ya.Da'	he knew	H3045 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וְטֶ֛רֶם	ve.Te.rem	and not yet	H2962 →
יִגָּלֶ֥ה	yi.ga.Leh	it was revealed	H1540 →
אֵלָ֖יו	'e.Lav	to him	H413 →
דְּבַר־	de.var-	[the] word of	H1697 →
יְהוָֽה׃	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

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

The walk

The walk8

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
Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,”…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 10:17
  Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
- Galatians 6:14
  But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
- 1 Corinthians 1:31
  Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
- Micah 6:8
  He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Micah 7:18
  Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Through
Acts 19:2
and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
leads to
- Galatians 3:5
  Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?
- 1 Corinthians 6:19
  Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
- Acts 11:15–17
  As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.