1 Samuel 12:22

22 Pues el SEÑOR no desamparará a su pueblo, por su grande nombre; porque el SEÑOR ha querido haceros pueblo suyo

1 Samuel 12:22 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's
sake.
] For the sake of himself, his honour and glory; should he forsake his people, and suffer them to come to ruin, his name would be blasphemed among the Heathens; he would be charged either with want of power to help them, or with want of faithfulness to his promise to them, and with inconstancy to himself, or want of kindness and affection for them; all which would reflect upon his honour and glory:

because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people;
it was not owing to any worth or worthiness in them that they became his people, but to his own sovereign good will and pleasure; and therefore, as it was nothing in them that was the cause of their being taken by him for his people, so nothing in them could be the cause of their being rejected by him as such; it was of free grace and favour that they were taken into covenant with him, and by the same would be retained: the Vulgate Latin version is,

``the Lord hath sworn to make you a people for himself;''

so Jarchi interprets it, he swore, and takes it to have the same sense as in ( 1 Samuel 14:24 ) .

1 Samuel 12:22 In-Context

20 Y Samuel respondió al pueblo: No temáis; vosotros habéis cometido todo este mal; mas con todo eso no os apartéis de en pos del SEÑOR, sino servid al SEÑOR con todo vuestro corazón

21 No os apartéis en pos de las vanidades, que no aprovechan ni libran, porque son vanidades

22 Pues el SEÑOR no desamparará a su pueblo, por su grande nombre; porque el SEÑOR ha querido haceros pueblo suyo

23 Así que, lejos sea de mí que peque yo contra el SEÑOR cesando de rogar por vosotros; antes yo os enseñaré por el camino bueno y derecho

24 Solamente temed al SEÑOR, y servidle de verdad con todo vuestro corazón, porque considerad cuán grandes cosas ha hecho con vosotros