24Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
For our God is a consuming fire.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them. …
Commentary
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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