撒母耳记上 13:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我心裡想：‘非利士人現在就要下到吉甲來攻打我，我卻還沒有向耶和華求恩。’所以我就勉強自己把燔祭獻上了。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
所 以 我 心 里 说 ： 恐 怕 我 没 有 祷 告 耶 和 华 。 非 利 士 人 下 到 吉 甲 攻 击 我 ， 我 就 勉 强 献 上 燔 祭 。

Contextual Overview

⁸ Saul waited seven days, because Samuel had said he would meet him then. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the soldiers began to leave. ⁹ So Saul said, "Bring me the whole burnt offering and the fellowship offerings." Then Saul offered the whole burnt offering. ¹⁰ Just as he finished, Samuel arrived, and Saul went to greet him. ¹¹ Samuel asked, "What have you done?" Saul answered, "I saw the soldiers leaving me, and you were not here when you said you would be. The Philistines were gathering at Micmash. ¹² Then I thought, ‘The Philistines will come against me at Gilgal, and I haven't asked for the Lord 's approval.' So I forced myself to offer the whole burnt offering." ¹³ Samuel said, "You acted foolishly! You haven't obeyed the command of the Lord your God. If you had obeyed him, the Lord would have made your kingdom continue in Israel always, ¹⁴ but now your kingdom will not continue. The Lord has looked for the kind of man he wants. He has appointed him to rule his people, because you haven't obeyed his command."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

said I: 1 Kings 12:26, 1 Kings 12:27

made supplication unto: Heb. intreated the face of, etc

I forced: 1 Samuel 21:7, Psalms 66:3, Amos 8:5, 2 Corinthians 9:7

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 13:9 - he offered 1 Kings 12:33 - he offered Proverbs 21:27 - sacrifice Ecclesiastes 5:1 - give Zechariah 7:2 - pray before the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 13:7
so Abram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen began to argue. The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at this time.

Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "There should be no arguing between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, because we are brothers.

Genesis 14:12
They took Lot, Abram's nephew who was living in Sodom, and everything he owned. Then they left.

Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting near the city gate. When he saw them, he got up and went to them and bowed facedown on the ground.

Genesis 19:25
and destroyed those cities. He also destroyed the whole Jordan Valley, everyone living in the cities, and even all the plants.

Genesis 19:29
God destroyed the cities in the valley, but he remembered what Abraham had asked. So God saved Lot's life, but he destroyed the city where Lot had lived.

Psalms 26:5
I hate the company of evil people, and I won't sit with the wicked.

1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be fooled: "Bad friends will ruin good habits."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore said I..... That is, within himself:

the Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal; on a sudden, unprepared for them, especially in a religious way:

and I have not made supplication to the Lord; for his direction and assistance, and for success in the war; which it seems went along with sacrifices, or was implied in them:

I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering; it was reluctant to him, it was against his will as well as the command of Samuel, to offer before he came, he suggests; but such were the circumstances he was in, that he was obliged to it; these are the reasons or excuses he made, and some of them have a specious appearance in them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 13:12. I forced myself — It was with great reluctance that I did what I did. In all this Saul was sincere, but ha was rash, and regardless of the precept of the Lord, which precept or command he most evidently had received, 1 Samuel 13:13. And one part of this precept was, that the Lord should tell him what he should do. Without this information, in an affair under the immediate cognizance of God, he should have taken no step.