1Sa 3:15, Dan 2:48-49, 5:14, 6:2-3, 8:2 | TSK | STEP | opened. Samuel.Samuel reverenced Eli as a father, and feared to distress him by shewing what God had purposed to do. It does not appear that God commanded Samuel to deliver this message; he therefore did not attempt it till adjured by Eli. It might be supposed that Samuel would have been so full of ecstasy as to have forgotten his ordinary service, and run amongst his friends to tell them of the converse he had with God in the night: but he modestly keeps it to himself. Our secret communion with God is not to be proclaimed on the house-top. feared.

1 Samuel 3:15

opened.

Samuel.Samuel reverenced Eli as a father, and feared to distress him by shewing what God had purposed to do. It does not appear that God commanded Samuel to deliver this message; he therefore did not attempt it till adjured by Eli. It might be supposed that Samuel would have been so full of ecstasy as to have forgotten his ordinary service, and run amongst his friends to tell them of the converse he had with God in the night: but he modestly keeps it to himself. Our secret communion with God is not to be proclaimed on the house-top.

feared.

Jer 1:6-8; 1Co 16:10,11

Daniel 2:48-49

a great.

6; 5:16; Ge 41:39-43; Nu 22:16,17; 24:11; 1Sa 17:25; 25:2; 2Sa 19:32

2Ki 5:1; Job 1:3; Jer 5:5

ruler.

5:29; 6:1,2

and chief.

4:9; 5:11

he set.

17; 1:17; 3:12-30; Pr 28:12

sat.

Es 2:19,21; 3:2; Jer 39:3; Am 5:15

Daniel 5:14

11,12

Daniel 6:2-3

of.

2:48,49; 5:16,29; 1Sa 2:30; Pr 3:16

that.

Mt 18:23; Lu 16:2

and the.

Ezr 4:22; Es 7:4; Pr 26:6; Lu 19:13-27; 1Co 4:2

was preferred.

Pr 22:29

an.

5:12,14; 9:23; Ge 41:38-41; Ne 7:2; Pr 3:3,4; 17:27; Ec 2:13

thought.Intended to make him grand vizier or {emiru'l umra.} Daniel had now been employed full sixty-five years as prime minister under the kings of Babylon; and was justly entitled, from his acknowledged wisdom, to this preference.

Daniel 8:2

I saw in.

3; 7:2,15; Nu 12:6; Heb 1:1

Shushan.

Ne 1:1; Es 1:2; 2:8; 3:15; 7:6; 8:15; 9:11,15

province.

Ge 10:22; 14:1; Isa 21:2; Jer 25:25; 49:34-39; Eze 32:24

Ulai.