1 Samuel 3:12-15
I will perform 1Sam 2:27-36; Num 23:19; Josh 23:15; Zech 1:6; Luke 21:33 when I begin etc. Heb. beginning and ending For I have told him or, And I will tell him, etc. 1Sam 2:27-30, 1Sam 2:31-36 I will 2Chr 20:12; Ezek 7:3, Ezek 18:30; Joel 3:12 which he knoweth 1Kgs 2:44; Eccl 7:22; 1John 3:20 his sons 1Sam 2:12, 1Sam 2:17, 1Sam 2:22, 1Sam 2:23-26 vile or, accursed restrained them not Heb. frowned not upon them, 1Sam 2:23-25; 1Kgs 1:6; Prov 19:18, Prov 23:13-14, Prov 29:15; Matt 10:37 the iniquity 1Sam 2:25; Num 15:30-31; Ps 51:16; Isa 22:14; Jer 7:16, Jer 15:1; Ezek 24:13; Heb 10:4-10, Heb 10:26-31 opened 1Sam 1:9; Mal 1:10 Samuel Samuel reverenced Eli as a father, and feared to distress him by shewing what God had purposed to do. It does not appear that God commanded Samuel to deliver this message; he therefore did not attempt it till adjured by Eli. It might be supposed that Samuel would have been so full of ecstasy as to have forgotten his ordinary service, and run amongst his friends to tell them of the converse he had with God in the night, but he modestly keeps it to himself. Our secret communion with God is not to be proclaimed on the house-top. feared Jer 1:6-8; 1Cor 16:10-11
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