Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
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Gill's Exposition
Now therefore stand still,.... Keep your place, and do not as yet break up the assembly, but wait a little longer patiently, and with reverence and attention hearken to what I have further to say:…
Adam Clarke
Now therefore stand still - I have arraigned myself before God and you; I now arraign you before God.
Samuel, having sufficiently secured his own reputation, instead of upbraiding the people upon it with their unkindness to him, sets himself to instruct them, and keep them in the way of their duty,…
Cambridge Bible
stand still, that I may reason with you Present yourselves that I may plead with you. The figure of a trial (1Sa 12:12 note) is still kept up; but the relation of the parties is changed. Samuel is now…
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