Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 12:14

14 Nǐmen ruò jìngwèi Yēhéhuá , shìfèng tā , tīng cóng tāde huà , bù wéibeì tāde mìnglìng , nǐmen hé zhìlǐ nǐmen de wáng yĕ dōu shùncóng Yēhéhuá nǐmen de shén jiù hǎo le .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 12:14 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 12:14

If ye will fear the Lord, and serve him, and obey his voice,
&c.] All worship and service of God, and obedience to his word and ordinances, should spring from fear and reverence of him; and therefore the whole of worship, both external and internal, is sometimes expressed by the fear of the Lord:

and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord;
break it, and thereby exasperate him, and provoke him to wrath and bitterness:

then shall both ye, and also the king that reigneth over you,
continue following the Lord your God; the Targum is,

``after the worship of the Lord your God;''

which was their duty to do, and is expressed in the preceding clauses; and this therefore is rather a promise of some benefit and privilege to their duty, and to encourage them to it, since it stands opposed to the threatening of punishment in the next verse; and the words in the original are, "then shall ye &c. be after the Lord your God" ^F12: that is, though they had in effect rejected the Lord from being their King, by asking and having one; yet notwithstanding, if they and their king were obedient to the commands of the Lord, he would not cast them off; but they should follow him as their guide, leader, and director, and he would protect and defend them as a shepherd does his sheep that follow after him; so Jarchi takes it to be a promise of long life and happiness to them and their king,

``ye shall be established to length of days, both ye and the king.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 (hwhy rxa-Mtyyh) "eritis post Dominum", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Piscator.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 12:14 In-Context

12 Nǐmen jiàn Yàmén rén de wáng ná xiá lái gōngjī nǐmen , jiù duì wǒ shuō , wǒmen déng yào yī gè wáng zhìlǐ wǒmen . qíshí Yēhéhuá nǐmen de shén shì nǐmen de wáng .

13 Xiànzaì , nǐmen suǒ qiú suǒ xuǎn de wáng zaì zhèlǐ . kàn nǎ , Yēhéhuá yǐjing wèi nǐmen lì wáng le .

14 Nǐmen ruò jìngwèi Yēhéhuá , shìfèng tā , tīng cóng tāde huà , bù wéibeì tāde mìnglìng , nǐmen hé zhìlǐ nǐmen de wáng yĕ dōu shùncóng Yēhéhuá nǐmen de shén jiù hǎo le .

15 Tǎngruò bù tīng cóng Yēhéhuá de huà , wéibeì tāde mìnglìng , Yēhéhuá de shǒu bì gōngjī nǐmen , xiàng cóng qián gōngjī nǐmen lièzǔ yíyàng .

16 Xiànzaì nǐmen yào zhàn zhù , kàn Yēhéhuá zaì nǐmen yǎnqián yào xíng yī jiàn dà shì .