撒母耳记上 15:17

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳說：“從前你雖然自以為微小，不是作了以色列眾支派的首領嗎？耶和華膏立了你作以色列的王，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
撒 母 耳 对 扫 罗 说 ： 从 前 你 虽 然 以 自 己 为 小 ， 岂 不 是 被 立 为 以 色 列 支 派 的 元 首 麽 ？ 耶 和 华 膏 你 作 以 色 列 的 王 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Then the Lord spoke his word to Samuel: ¹¹ "I am sorry I made Saul king, because he has stopped following me and has not obeyed my commands." Samuel was upset, and he cried out to the Lord all night long. ¹² Early the next morning Samuel got up and went to meet Saul. But the people told Samuel, "Saul has gone to Carmel, where he has put up a monument in his own honor. Now he has gone down to Gilgal." ¹³ When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said, "May the Lord bless you! I have obeyed the Lord 's commands." ¹⁴ But Samuel said, "Then why do I hear cattle mooing and sheep bleating?" ¹⁵ Saul answered, "The soldiers took them from the Amalekites. They saved the best sheep and cattle to offer as sacrifices to the Lord your God, but we destroyed all the other animals." ¹⁶ Samuel said to Saul, "Stop! Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night." Saul answered, "Tell me." ¹⁷ Samuel said, "Once you didn't think much of yourself, but now you have become the leader of the tribes of Israel. The Lord appointed you to be king over Israel. ¹⁸ And he sent you on a mission. He said, ‘Go and destroy those evil people, the Amalekites. Make war on them until all of them are dead.' ¹⁹ Why didn't you obey the Lord ? Why did you take the best things? Why did you do what the Lord said was wrong?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

When thou: 1 Samuel 9:21, 1 Samuel 10:22, Judges 6:15, Hosea 13:1, Matthew 18:4

the Lord: 1 Samuel 15:1-3, 1 Samuel 10:1

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:8 - set them 2 Samuel 7:18 - Who am I 2 Samuel 12:7 - I anointed 1 Kings 16:2 - I exalted thee 2 Kings 9:3 - I have anointed Proverbs 25:6 - in the presence Isaiah 26:10 - favour Luke 14:10 - go Luke 14:11 - whosoever Ephesians 6:9 - forbearing

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, "Lord God , what can you give me? I have no son, so my slave Eliezer from Damascus will get everything I own after I die."

Genesis 15:3
Abram said, "Look, you have given me no son, so a slave born in my house will inherit everything I have."

Genesis 15:18
So on that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram and said, "I will give to your descendants the land between the river of Egypt and the great river Euphrates.

Genesis 15:19
This is the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

Deuteronomy 4:20
But the Lord brought you out of Egypt, which tested you like a furnace for melting iron, and he made you his very own people, as you are now.

Judges 6:21
The angel of the Lord touched the meat and the bread with the end of the stick that was in his hand. Then fire jumped up from the rock and completely burned up the meat and the bread! And the angel of the Lord disappeared!

Judges 13:20
The flames went up to the sky from the altar. As the fire burned, the angel of the Lord went up to heaven in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw that, they bowed facedown on the ground.

2 Samuel 22:9
Smoke came out of his nose, and burning fire came out of his mouth. Burning coals went before him.

1 Chronicles 21:26
David built an altar to the Lord there and offered whole burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. David prayed to the Lord , and he answered him by sending down fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.

Isaiah 62:1
Because I love Jerusalem, I will continue to speak for her; for Jerusalem's sake I will not stop speaking until her goodness shines like a bright light, until her salvation burns bright like a flame.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samuel said, when thou [wast] little in thine own sight,.... Humble and lowly, and had a mean opinion of himself, his family and tribe, and judged himself unworthy of the kingdom; see 1 Samuel 9:21 suggesting, that now he was proud and haughty, and would have his own will and way:

wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel; not of his own tribe only, which was the least, but of all the tribes, and so they were all subject to him, and at his command:

and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel; all which is observed, partly to point out unto him the high honour he was raised unto, from a low estate, which laid him under obligation to serve the Lord, and obey him; and partly as an answer to him, excusing himself, and laying the blame upon the people; whereas seeing he was made king over them, his business was to rule and govern them, guide and direct them in the right way, and restrain them from that which was evil; and since he was anointed by the Lord, and not by the people, he ought to have obeyed him, and not regarded the pleasure of them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 15:17. Little in thine own sight — Who can bear prosperity? Is it not of the Lord's great goodness that the majority of the inhabitants of the earth are in comparative poverty?