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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
1 KaSamuweli 12:18
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- CondensedBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
sent thunder: Exodus 9:23-25, Revelation 11:5, Revelation 11:6
feared: Exodus 14:31, Ezra 10:9, Psalms 106:12, Psalms 106:13
Reciprocal: Exodus 19:16 - thunders Joshua 4:14 - they feared him 1 Samuel 2:10 - he thunder 2 Samuel 22:14 - thundered 1 Kings 3:28 - feared 1 Chronicles 29:20 - worshipped Job 36:31 - by Job 37:13 - whether Job 38:28 - Hath the Job 38:34 - General Psalms 72:5 - They shall Psalms 99:6 - they called Proverbs 26:1 - in summer Isaiah 29:6 - General Jeremiah 10:13 - maketh Mark 4:41 - feared Romans 13:7 - fear to James 5:16 - The effectual
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So Samuel called unto the Lord,.... Not in an authoritative way, or by way of command, but by prayer; so the Targum renders the clause in the preceding verse,
"I will pray before the Lord:''
and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day; immediately, though there was no appearance of it; it was harvest time, and a fine harvest day. Josephus says p he sent thunder, lightning, and hail, a terrible storm and tempest it was:
and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel; the Lord that sent this tempest, and Samuel who had such power with God in prayer. Clement of Alexandria q thinks that from hence the Greeks borrowed their fable concerning Aeacus invoking God, when there was a drought in Greece; and as soon as he prayed, immediately there was thunder, and the whole air was covered with clouds; but perhaps they rather framed it from the instance of Elijah praying for rain r, at whose request it came, 1 Kings 18:42.
p Antiqu. l. 6. c. 5. sect. 6. q Stromat. l. 6. p. 630. r Vid. Schmid. in Pindar. Nemea, Ode 5. p. 110.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Samuel 12:18. The Lord sent thunder and rain that day — This was totally unusual; and, as it came at the call of Samuel, was a most evident miracle.
Greatly feared the Lord — They dreaded His terrible majesty; and they feared Samuel, perceiving that he had so much power with God.
