1 Samuel 2:9 KJV — MannaFest

He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

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ASV

He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.

WEB

He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

YLT

The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

DBT

He keepeth the feet of his saints, but the wicked are silenced in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Psalms 37:23
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.
Psalms 55:22
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Proverbs 3:26
For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Psalms 121:3
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Numbers 6:24
The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

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Or he will keep their feet, that is, he will secure the ground they stand on, and establish their goings; he will set a guard of grace upon their affections and actions, that their feet may neither wander out of the way nor stumble in the way. When their feet are ready to slip ( Ps. lxxiii. 2 ) his mercy holdeth them up ( Ps. xciv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Glorious things are here spoken of the kingdom of the Mediator, both before and since his incarnation; for the method of the administration of it, both by the eternal Word and by that Word made flesh, is much the same. Concerning that kingdom we are here assured, (1.) That all the loyal subjects of it shall be carefully and powerfully protected (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

They shall be struck both blind and dumb, not be able to see their way nor have any thing to say for themselves. Damned sinners are sentenced to utter darkness, and in it they will be for ever speechless, Matt. xxii. The wicked are called the adversaries of the Lord, and it is foretold (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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