1 Samuel 3:17

Lutherbibel

Er sprach: Was ist das Wort, das dir gesagt ist? Verschweige mir nichts. Gott tue dir dies und das, wo du mir etwas verschweigst, das dir gesagt ist.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Er sprach: Wie lautet das Wort, das zu dir geredet worden ist? Verbirg es doch nicht vor mir! Gott tue dir dies und das, wenn du mir etwas verbirgst von allem, was er mit dir geredet hat!

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und er sprach: Was ist das Wort, das er zu dir geredet hat? Verhehle es mir doch nicht. So tue dir Gott und so füge er hinzu, wenn du mir etwas verhehlst von allem, was er zu dir geredet hat!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I pray thee: Psalms 141:5, Daniel 4:19, Micah 2:7

God: 1 Samuel 20:13, Ruth 1:17, 2 Samuel 3:35, 2 Samuel 19:13, 1 Kings 22:16, Matthew 26:63

more also: Heb. so add

thing: or, word

Reciprocal: Numbers 23:17 - What 1 Samuel 25:22 - So and more 2 Samuel 3:9 - So do God 2 Samuel 14:18 - Hide not 2 Kings 6:31 - God do so Jeremiah 38:14 - I will Jeremiah 42:4 - I will keep

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, what is the thing that the [Lord] hath said unto thee?.... The word "Lord" is not in the text, but it is "that it hath said"; the voice that had so often called him in the night, and which yet Eli knew was the voice of the Lord; and as it was, he was sensible there was something of importance said, and he had great reason to believe it respected him and his family; and the rather he might conclude this, by what the man of God had lately said to him, whose words perhaps he had too much slighted, questioning his authority; and therefore the Lord took this way and method to assure him that what was said came from him; for hereby Eli was fully convinced that this voice Samuel heard was of the Lord, and so what was said must be from him, and this he was impatient to know:

I pray thee, hide it not from me; and he not only beseeched and entreated him, but adjured him, as in the next clause:

God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide anything from me of all the things that said unto thee; it is the form of an oath or curse, wishing that God would do some great evil to him, and more than he chose to express, if he concealed anything from him that had been told him. So Kimchi and Abarbinel take it to be an oath; and Josephus, u and Procopius Gazaeus on the place say, that Eli obliged Samuel by oaths and curses to declare what had been said to him.

u Antiqu. l. 5. c. 10. sect. 4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 3:17. God do so to thee, and more also — This was a very solemn adjuration: he suspected that God had threatened severe judgments, for he knew that his house was very criminal; and he wished to know what God had spoken. The words imply thus much: If thou do not tell me fully what God has threatened, may the same and greater curses fall on thyself.