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1 Samuel 3:17

1 Samuel 3:17
And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And he said, what is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee?.... The word "Lord" is not in the text, but it is "that it hath said"; the voice that had so often called him in the night, and which…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

God do so to thee, and more also - This was a very solemn adjuration: he suspected that God had threatened severe judgments, for he knew that his house was very criminal; and he wished to know what…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Samuel 3:11-18

Here is, I. The message which, after all this introduction, God delivered to Samuel concerning Eli's house. God did not come to him now to tell him how great a man he should be in his day, what a…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

What is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee? The word Lord is not in the Hebrew. As in 1Sa 3:3 it is tacitly assumed that the speaker was Jehovah.

Observe how Eli first simply asksfor an…