1 Samuel 12:22
For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.
1 Samuel 12:22 in other translations
| BSB | Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own. |
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| WEB | For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself. |
| ASV | For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself. |
| YLT | for Jehovah doth not leave His people, on account of His great name; for Jehovah hath been pleased to make you to Him for a people. |
| DARBY | For Jehovah will not cast away his people for his great name's sake; because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people. |
| BBE | For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself. |
| Webster | For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. |
What does 1 Samuel 12:22 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 12:17-25
17-25. 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. There could not, therefore, have been a stronger or more appropriate proof of a divine mission than the phenomenon of rain and thunder happening, without any prognostics of its approach, upon the prediction of a person professing himself…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 12:16-25
At Samuel's word, God sent thunder and rain, at a season of the year when, in that country, the like was not seen. This was to convince them they had done wickedly in asking a king; not only by its coming at an unusual time, in wheat harvest, and on a clear day, but by the prophet's giving notice of it before. He showed their folly in desiring a king to save them, rather than God, or Samuel; promising themselves…
1 Samuel 12:22 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Samuel 12:22
- Deuteronomy 14:2
For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
- Psalms 106:8
Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
- Philippians 1:6
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
- 1 Kings 6:13
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
- Jeremiah 14:21
Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
- Joshua 7:9
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
- Romans 11:29
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
- Deuteronomy 7:7-8
The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
- Psalms 94:14
For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
- Ezekiel 20:14
But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
- Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
- Ephesians 1:12
That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
De 31:17; 1Ki 6:13; 2Ki 21:14; 1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 15:2; Ps 94:14
Isa 41:17; 42:16; Jer 33:24-26; La 3:31,32; 5:20; Heb 13:5
for his great.
Ex 32:12; Nu 14:13-19; De 32:26,27; Jos 7:9; Ps 106:8; Isa 37:35
Isa 43:25; 48:11; Jer 14:7,21; Eze 20:9,14; Eph 1:6,12
it hath.
Ex 19:5,6; De 7:7,8; 9:5; 14:2; Mal 1:2; Mt 11:26; Joh 15:16
Ro 9:13-18; 11:29; 1Co 4:7; Php 1:6
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Context
- 1 Samuel 12:21
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
- 1 Samuel 12:22
For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.
- 1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
1 Samuel 12:22 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Pues Jehová no desamparará á su pueblo por su grande nombre; porque Jehová ha querido haceros pueblo suyo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car l’ Éternel, à cause de son grand nom, n’abandonnera point son peuple, parce que l’ Éternel s’est plu à faire de vous son peuple. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn Jehova wird um seines großen Namens willen sein Volk nicht verlassen; denn es hat Jehova gefallen, euch sich zum Volke zu machen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et non derelinquet Dominus populum suum propter nomen suum magnum: quia juravit Dominus facere vos sibi populum. |