5And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. …
And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Samuel had retired to his own house in Ramah, with a resolution not to appear any more in public business, but to addict himself wholly to the instructing and training up of the sons of the prophets, over whom he presided, as we find, 1 Sam. 19:20. He promised himself more satisfaction in young prophets than in young princes; and we do not find that, to his dying day, God called him out to any pub…
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