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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Sa 12:17 — [ Is it] not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness [is] great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.
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Is it
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"In northern latitudes, thunder and rain are far from being un-common during harvest. But rain is hardly ever known in Palestine during that season, which commences about the end of June, or beginning of July. This fact is abundantly confirmed by modern travellers, and is demonstrative to every unprejudiced reader of the Holy Scriptures, that the thunder and rain, which at Samuel's invocation, was sent at this season of the year, was a miraculous interposition of the power of God; for we read in 1Sa 12:16, it was a ""great thing which the LORD will do."" Thus were the Israelites warned of their sin in having asked a king, and of the omnipotence of that God, whose gracious promises they virtually neglected by this act. Pro 26:1" |
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I will call
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1Sa 7:9,10; Jos 10:12; Psa 99:6; Jer 15:1; Jam 5:16-18 |
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your wickedness
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1Sa 8:7 |
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1Sa 12:16 |
Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes. |
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Pro 26:1 |
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. |
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1Sa 7:9 |
And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered [it for] a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him. |
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1Sa 7:10 |
And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel. |
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Jos 10:12 |
Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. |
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Psa 99:6 |
Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them. |
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Jer 15:1 |
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth. |
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Jam 5:16 |
Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. |
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Jam 5:17 |
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. |
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Jam 5:18 |
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. |
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1Sa 8:7 |
And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "1 Samuel 12:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/1Sa/12/17.html>.
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