1 Samuel 12:6

6 Então Samuel disse ao povo: “O SENHOR designou Moisés e Arão e tirou os seus antepassados do Egito.

1 Samuel 12:6 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 12:6

And Samuel said unto the people
Having cleared and established his own character, he proceeds to lay before the people some of the great things God had done for them formerly, and quite down to the present time, the more to aggravate their ingratitude in rejecting God as their King:

[it is] the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron;
raised them from a low estate, the one in a foreign country in Midian, the other in bondage in Egypt, to be deliverers, guides, and governors of his people Israel. Kimchi thinks this refers to what goes before, and that the sense is, that God, that raised Moses and Aaron to great honour and dignity, was a witness between him and the people; in which he is followed by some Christian interpreters. Ben Gersom makes mention of the same, but rather approves of the connection of the words with what follows, as does Abarbinel, and is doubtless most correct; the Targum is,

``who hath done mighty things by the hands of Moses and Aaron:''

and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt;
when they were in bondage there, and that by the means of Moses and Aaron, by whose hands he wrought signs and wonders and inflicted plagues on the Egyptians, which made them willing at last to let Israel go.

1 Samuel 12:6 In-Context

4 E responderam: “Tu não nos exploraste nem nos oprimiste. Tu não tiraste coisa alguma das mãos de ninguém”.

5 Samuel lhes disse: “O SENHOR é testemunha diante de vocês, como também o seu ungido é hoje testemunha, de que vocês não encontraram culpa alguma em minhas mãos”.E disseram: “Ele é testemunha”.

6 Então Samuel disse ao povo: “O SENHOR designou Moisés e Arão e tirou os seus antepassados do Egito.

7 Agora, pois, fiquem aqui, porque vou entrar em julgamento com vocês perante o SENHOR, com base nos atos justos realizados pelo SENHOR em favor de vocês e dos seus antepassados.

8 “Depois que Jacó entrou no Egito, eles clamaram ao SENHOR, e ele enviou Moisés e Arão para tirar os seus antepassados do Egito e os estabelecer neste lugar.