1 Samuel 3:18

And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him,.... And so approved himself to be a faithful prophet of God, and man of God, as he is afterwards called; the whole counsel of God is to be…

It is the Lord ... - Compare the devout submission of Aaron Lev 10:3, and of Hezekiah 2Ki 20:19. And, for the highest conceivable submission to the will of God, compare Luk 22:42.

Samuel told him every whit - Our word whit, or wid, comes from the Anglo-Saxon, which signifies person, thing, etc.; every whit is every thing. The Hebrew את כל הדברים et col haddebarim, "all these…

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…

every whit Heb. -all the words," = every thing. Whitis derived from A.-S. wiht, thing.

It is the Lord He is Jehovah. For the depth of meaning involved in this confession, see Exo 34:5-7. Eli, with all…