1st Samuel Chapter 12 verse 22 Holy Bible
For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself.
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For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.
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For Jehovah will not cast away his people for his great name's sake; because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people.
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For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
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For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
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For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.
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for Jehovah doth not leave His people, on account of His great name; for Jehovah hath been pleased to make you to Him for a people.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - For his great name's sake. Though Samuel in ver. 14 had described their well being as dependent upon their own conduct, yet in a higher light it depended upon God's will. He had chosen Israel not for its own sake (Deuteronomy 7:7, 8), but for a special purpose, to minister to the Divine plan for the redemption of all mankind, and so, though individuals might sin to their own ruin, and the nation bring upon itself severe chastisements, yet it must continue according to the tenor of God's promises (see on 1 Samuel 2:30), and through weal and woe discharge the duty imposed upon it.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) It hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.--The simple doctrine of election--as far as we can see, based alone on the arbitrary will of God (though, no doubt, unseen by us, deep reasons exist for every seemingly arbitrary choice)--is here enunciated. The analogy of every-day life teaches the same truth. "He maketh one vessel to honour and another to dishonour." These things are to us inscrutable.
