撒母耳记上 12:19

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

眾民對撒母耳說：“求你為僕人向耶和華你的　神禱告，免得我們死亡，因為我們為自己要求立王的事，是在我們的一切罪上又增加了這一件惡事。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
众 民 对 撒 母 耳 说 ： 求 你 为 仆 人 们 祷 告 耶 和 华 ─ 你 的 　 神 ， 免 得 我 们 死 亡 ， 因 为 我 们 求 立 王 的 事 正 是 罪 上 加 罪 了 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ "Now stand still and see the great thing the Lord will do before your eyes. ¹⁷ It is now the time of the wheat harvest. I will pray for the Lord to send thunder and rain. Then you will know what an evil thing you did against the Lord when you asked for a king." ¹⁸ Then Samuel prayed to the Lord , and that same day the Lord sent thunder and rain. So the people were very afraid of the Lord and Samuel. ¹⁹ They said to Samuel, "Pray to the Lord your God for us, your servants! Don't let us die! We've added to all our sins the evil of asking for a king." ²⁰ Samuel answered, "Don't be afraid. It's true that you did wrong, but don't turn away from the Lord . Serve the Lord with all your heart. ²¹ Idols are of no use, so don't worship them. They can't help you or save you. They are useless! ²² For his own sake, the Lord won't leave his people. Instead, he was pleased to make you his own people. ²³ I will surely not stop praying for you, because that would be sinning against the Lord . I will teach you what is good and right. ²⁴ You must honor the Lord and truly serve him with all your heart. Remember the wonderful things he did for you! ²⁵ But if you are stubborn and do evil, he will sweep you and your king away."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Pray for thy: 1 Samuel 7:5, 1 Samuel 7:8, Genesis 20:7, Exodus 9:28, Exodus 10:17, Job 42:8, Psalms 78:34, Psalms 78:35, Isaiah 26:16, Malachi 1:9, Acts 8:24, James 5:15, 1 John 5:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:8 - Entreat Numbers 12:11 - I beseech thee Numbers 21:7 - We have Deuteronomy 17:14 - I will set Judges 2:17 - they would 2 Samuel 9:7 - Fear not 1 Kings 13:6 - now Job 37:13 - whether Isaiah 37:4 - lift up Jeremiah 27:18 - let them Jeremiah 37:3 - Pray Jeremiah 42:2 - and pray

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the people said unto Samuel, During the tempest, and in the midst of it; it was the general cry of the people, they were unanimous in it:

pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not; though they had rejected him as their judge and supreme governor in desiring a king, now they were his humble servants, at least feignedly; and knowing what interest he had with God in prayer, they entreat him to make use of it on their behalf, who having sinned so greatly, had not the assurance to call the Lord their God, though they had no doubt of his being the God of Samuel, whose prayers he had heard, of which this tempest was a full proof; and was so violent, that if it continued, they were afraid they should be destroyed by the thunder and lightning, or they and their cattle, with the fruits of the earth, be washed away with the prodigious rain:

for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king; though Samuel had laid before them the evils and inconveniences of having a king, and had in the name of the Lord charged them with rejecting God as their king; yet nothing convinced them of their evil till this storm came, and then all their sins came fresh to their minds; and this added to the weight of them, and lay heaviest on them, that they had rejected the Lord, and slighted his prophets, and, notwithstanding all remonstrances, resolved on having a king.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 12:19. Pray for thy servants - that we die not — As they knew they had rebelled against God, they saw that they had every thing to fear from his justice and power.

We have added unto all our sins this evil — It is no sin to have a king; a good king is one of the greatest blessings of God's providence; but it is a sin to put a man in the place of God. Is it not strange that they did not now attempt to repair their fault? They might have done it, but they did not; they acknowledged their sin, but did not put it away. This is the general way of mankind. "God help us, we are all sinners!" is the general language of all people: but though to be a sinner is to be in the most solemn and awful circumstances, yet they are contented to bear the character, heedless of the consequences!