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1 Samuel 12:6

Samuel said to the people, "The Lord is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors up from the land of Egypt.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Samuel, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron;   Israel;   Samuel, Books of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Saul;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Stephen;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Samuel said to the people, “The Lord, who appointed Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors up from the land of Egypt, is a witness.
Hebrew Names Version
Shemu'el said to the people, It is the LORD who appointed Moshe and Aharon, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Mitzrayim.
King James Version
And Samuel said unto the people, It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
Lexham English Bible
Then Samuel said to the people, "Yahweh is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your ancestors up from the land of Egypt.
English Standard Version
And Samuel said to the people, "The Lord is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
New Century Version
Then Samuel said to the people, "It is the Lord who chose Moses and Aaron and brought your ancestors out of Egypt.
Amplified Bible
Then Samuel said to the people, "It is the LORD who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers (ancestors) up from the land of Egypt.
New American Standard Bible
Then Samuel said to the people, "It is the LORD who appointed Moses and Aaron and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Samuel sayde vnto the people, It is the Lord that made Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Samuel said to the people, "It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt.
Contemporary English Version
Then Samuel told them: The Lord brought your ancestors out of Egypt and chose Moses and Aaron to be your leaders.
Complete Jewish Bible
Sh'mu'el said to the people, "It was Adonai who appointed Moshe and Aharon and who brought your ancestors up from the land of Egypt.
Darby Translation
And Samuel said to the people, [It is] Jehovah who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Samuel said to the people, "The Lord has seen what happened. He is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and brought your ancestors out of Egypt.
George Lamsa Translation
And Samuel said to the people, The LORD is the only God, who advanced Moses and Aaron and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
Good News Translation
Samuel continued, "The Lord is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors out of Egypt.
Literal Translation
And Samuel said to the people, It is Jehovah who made Moses and Aaron, and who caused your fathers to go up from the land of Egypt.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Samuel sayde vnto the people: The LORDE which made Moses and Aaron, and broughte youre fathers out of the londe of Egipte (is here present.)
American Standard Version
And Samuel said unto the people, It is Jehovah that appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
Bible in Basic English
And Samuel said to the people, The Lord is witness, who gave authority to Moses and Aaron, and who took your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Samuel sayd vnto the people: It is the Lorde that made Moyses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers out of the lande of Egypt.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Samuel said unto the people: 'It is the LORD that made Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
King James Version (1611)
And Samuel said vnto the people, It is the Lord that aduanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers vp out of the land of Egypt.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Samuel spoke to the people, saying, The Lord who appointed Moses and Aaron is witness, who brought our fathers up out of Egypt.
English Revised Version
And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Samuel said to the people, "The LORD is the One who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Samuel seide to the puple, The Lord, that made Moises and Aaron, and ledde youre fadris out of the lond of Egipt, is present;
Young's Literal Translation
And Samuel saith unto the people, `Jehovah -- He who made Moses and Aaron, and who brought up your fathers out of the land of Egypt!
Update Bible Version
And Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh that appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Samuel said to the people, [It is] the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt.
World English Bible
Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
New King James Version
Then Samuel said to the people, "It is the LORD who raised up Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt.
New Living Translation
"It was the Lord who appointed Moses and Aaron," Samuel continued. "He brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt.
New Life Bible
Samuel said to the people, "The Lord is the One Who chose Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt.
New Revised Standard
Samuel said to the people, "The Lord is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your ancestors up out of the land of Egypt.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Samuel said unto the people: Witness, is Yahweh, who wrought with Moses and with Aaron, and who brought up your fathers out of the land of Egypt.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Samuel said to the people: It is the Lord who made Moses and Aaron, and brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt.
Revised Standard Version
And Samuel said to the people, "The LORD is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
THE MESSAGE
And the people said, "He is witness." Samuel continued, "This is the God who made Moses and Aaron your leaders and brought your ancestors out of Egypt. Take your stand before him now as I review your case before God in the light of all the righteous ways in which God has worked with you and your ancestors. When Jacob's sons entered Egypt, the Egyptians made life hard for them and they cried for help to God . God sent Moses and Aaron, who led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them here in this place.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Samuel said to the people, "It is the LORD who appointed Moses and Aaron and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt.

Contextual Overview

6 Samuel said to the people, "The Lord is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors up from the land of Egypt. 7 Now take your positions, so I may confront you before the Lord regarding all the Lord 's just actions toward you and your ancestors. 8 When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the Lord . The Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place. 9 "But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor's army, and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. 10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.' 11 So the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely. 12 "When you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites was advancing against you, you said to me, ‘No! A king will rule over us'—even though the Lord your God is your king! 13 Now look! Here is the king you have chosen—the one that you asked for! Look, the Lord has given you a king! 14 If you fear the Lord , serving him and obeying him and not rebelling against what he says, and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the Lord your God, all will be well. 15 But if you don't obey the Lord and rebel against what the Lord says, the hand of the Lord will be against both you and your king.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

It is the Lord: Exodus 6:26, Nehemiah 9:9-14, Psalms 77:19, Psalms 77:20, Psalms 78:12-72, Psalms 99:6, Psalms 105:26, Psalms 105:41, Isaiah 63:7-14, Hosea 12:13, Micah 6:4

advanced: or, made

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:10 - General 1 Samuel 12:8 - sent Moses Psalms 136:11 - brought out Hebrews 3:2 - appointed

Cross-References

Genesis 10:15
Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,
Genesis 12:18
So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
Genesis 12:19
Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!"
Genesis 13:7
So there were quarrels between Abram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)
Genesis 33:18
After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near the city.
Genesis 34:2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.
Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem
Deuteronomy 11:30
Are they not across the Jordan River, toward the west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the oak of Moreh?
Joshua 20:7
So they selected Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
Joshua 24:32
The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samuel said unto the people,.... Having cleared and established his own character, he proceeds to lay before the people some of the great things God had done for them formerly, and quite down to the present time, the more to aggravate their ingratitude in rejecting God as their King:

[it is] the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron; raised them from a low estate, the one in a foreign country in Midian, the other in bondage in Egypt, to be deliverers, guides, and governors of his people Israel. Kimchi thinks this refers to what goes before, and that the sense is, that God, that raised Moses and Aaron to great honour and dignity, was a witness between him and the people; in which he is followed by some Christian interpreters. Ben Gersom makes mention of the same, but rather approves of the connection of the words with what follows, as does Abarbinel, and is doubtless most correct; the Targum is,

"who hath done mighty things by the hands of Moses and Aaron:''

and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt; when they were in bondage there, and that by the means of Moses and Aaron, by whose hands he wrought signs and wonders and inflicted plagues on the Egyptians, which made them willing at last to let Israel go.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Advanced - In the sense of appointing them to their office. It is, literally, “made” (see the margin; 1 Kings 12:31; Hebrews 3:2). Samuel’s purpose is to impress the people with the conviction that Yahweh was their God, and the God of their fathers; that to Him they owed their national existence and all their national blessings, and that faithfulness to Him, to the exclusion of all other worship 1 Samuel 12:21 was the only safety of the newly-established monarchy. Observe the constant reference to the Exodus as the well-known turning-point of their national life (see 1 Samuel 4:8; 1 Samuel 6:6).


 
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