1 Samuele 12:22

22 Imperocchè il Signore, per amor del suo gran Nome, non abbandonerà il suo popolo; conciossiachè sia piaciuto al Signore farvi suo popolo.

1 Samuele 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 Samuele 12:22 In-Context

20 E Samuele disse al popolo: Non temiate; voi avete commesso tutto questo male; ma pur non vi rivolgete indietro dal Signore, anzi servite al Signore con tutto il cuor vostro.

21 Non vi rivolgete pure indietro; perciocchè voi andreste dietro a cose vane, le quali non possono giovare, nè liberare; perciocchè son cose vane.

22 Imperocchè il Signore, per amor del suo gran Nome, non abbandonerà il suo popolo; conciossiachè sia piaciuto al Signore farvi suo popolo.

23 Tolga anche da me Iddio, che io pecchi contro al Signore, e che io resti di pregar per voi; anzi, io vi ammaestrerò nella buona e diritta via.

24 Sol temete il Signore, e servitegli in verità, con tutto il cuor vostro; perciocchè, guardate le gran cose ch’egli ha operate inverso voi.