22For 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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Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: …
Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-25)Two things Samuel here aims at:— I. To convince the people of their sin in desiring a king. They were now rejoicing before God in and with their king (1 Sam. 11:15), and offering to God the sacrifices of praise, which they hoped God would accept; and this perhaps made them think that there was no harm in their asking a king, but really they had done well in it. Therefore Samuel here charges it upo…
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