OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 12:22

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For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.

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Verse 22. Sake. This motive often proved the salvation of Israel. Exodus 32:12. The Scriptures wholly tend to impress upon our minds, a sense of our own weakness, and of God’s infinite glory and perfection. Calmet.—We may all say, “Our hope to rise is all from Thee—our ruin’s all our own.” Austin.

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