Only 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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Gill's Exposition
Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart,.... Fear him not with a servile fear, which is before dehorted from, but with a filial fear, a reverential affection for God; and…
Adam Clarke
Only fear the Lord - Know, respect, and reverence him.
Serve him - Consider him your Lord and Master; consider yourselves his servants.
In truth - Be ever honest, ever sincere; with all your heart -…
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 (Sa1 11:15), and offering to God the sacrifices…
Cambridge Bible
how great things he hath done for you Lit. with you. The reference can scarcely be limited to the recent storm as a display of God's greatness, but includes all his gracious dealings with His people.…
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