12<\/strong>. we will shew you a thing<\/em> ] Either, “give you some information;” or, “teach you a lesson.” Cp. Jdg 8:16<\/span>. Perhaps a colloquial phrase, used of course contemptuously.<\/p>\n We will show you a thing – <\/B>Said mockingly.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 12<\/span>. Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.<\/B><\/I>] This was the favourable sign which Jonathan had requested. The Philistines seem to have meant, Come, and we will show you how well fortified we are, and how able to quell all the attacks of your countrymen.<\/P> <\/p>\n We will show you a thing; <\/B>we having something of importance to communicate to you. A speech of contempt and derision. <\/P> The Lord hath delivered them; <\/B>he piously and modestly ascribes the success which he now foresees to God only. <\/P> <\/p>\n And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer<\/strong>,…. The guards that were set to watch the garrison, who descrying them, called to them, and said:<\/p>\n come up to us, and we will show you a thing<\/strong>; we have something to say to you, a pretty thing to show you, when you shall pay dear for your boldness and impudence, in daring to come so near; not imagining that they could come, or would dare to attempt to come any further:<\/p>\n and Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, come up after me<\/strong>; follow me, and never fear but we will find a way to come up to them, however difficult it may be:<\/p>\n for the Lord hath delivered them into the hand of Israel<\/strong>; he knew by their language that God had given them a spirit of fear, that they durst not come out of their hold, and come down to them; and that he had cast them into a spirit of security and vain confidence, that they could never come at them, and give them any trouble; and from thence he concluded deliverance was at hand for the people of Israel, he seeking not his own private interest and glory, but the public good; and which he was ready to ascribe not to his own valour and courage, but to the power, kindness, and goodness of God.<\/p>\n 12<\/strong>. <\/strong> We will show you a thing <\/strong> We will make known something of importance to you. These words, like Ehud’s to the king of Moab, (Jdg 3:20<\/span>,) were spoken in irony, and concealed a deadly intention.<\/p>\n 1Sa 14:12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.<\/p>\n Ver. 12. Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.<\/strong> ] The thing that ye seem to seek, by climbing up these steep rocks, and to be ambitious of – viz., your bane, your passport.<\/p>\n shew you a thing = tell you something. <\/p>\n Come up to us: Meaning, that they would cause them to repent of their audacity. This was the favourable sign which Jonathan had requested. 1Sa 14:10, 1Sa 17:43, 1Sa 17:44, 2Sa 2:14-17, 2Ki 14:8 <\/p>\n Come up after me: Gen 24:26, Gen 24:27, Gen 24:42, Gen 24:48, Jdg 4:14, Jdg 7:15, 2Sa 5:24 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Jos 23:10 – One man Jdg 7:11 – thou shalt 2Sa 10:12 – Be of good 1Ki 20:11 – Let not him 1Ki 20:18 – General Neh 4:2 – feeble<\/p>\n A REAL HERO<\/p>\n And Jonathan said to his armourbearer, Come up after me.<\/p>\n 1Sa 14:12<\/p>\n I. In marked contrast to the dispirited father is the splendid courage of his heroic son. There are great gulfs between some Bible fathers and their sons. But never was there a wider separation between a fathers heart and the heart of his child than there is in our Lesson. Saul was dispirited, Jonathan was bold. Saul was quite hopeless, Jonathan was flushed with a sure hope in God. Saul only wanted to get alone and brood, but Jonathan was ready for all hazards. You see the separating work of sin. It was Sauls sin that had sundered the two hearts. It was not because Saul was ageing and Jonathan was young; and it was not because the one was father and the other child, that there lay such a gulf between the two. It was because the hope and joy and swift obedience of Jonathan were distant by a whole world from the disobedience of Saul. And sin is always separating like that. We sometimes talk of social sins. But every sin at last is anti social.<\/p>\n II. Jonathan then was full of hope and courage.None but a hero would have ever dreamed of going single-handed against the Philistines. And when we read about the strength of their position, and the almost inaccessible cliffs below them, the very thought of attack might seem absurd. Now the Bible never encourages reckless daring. It is no record of madcap escapades. And had this been a wild adventure of hot-blooded youth we should never have had the story of it here. What lifts it up out of the rank of escapades is faith. It roots in a noble and reasonable trust in God. Jonathan was inspired and moved by the Spirit of the Highest. His bold adventure then, crowned by success, is but one of a thousand that have helped the world. It is through the lonely daring of faith that we are saved.<\/p>\n III. The whole conduct of Jonathan in this episode reveals the depth of the trust in God that filled him.We note it, for example, in his silence. He never told his father what he was doing. He felt that Saul would never have understood. He whispered no word of it to the army of Israel. They would have called it an act of rashest folly. Jonathan consulted not with flesh and blood when the Spirit of God called him to his task. He had no swagger about him, said a war correspondent of General Gordon; he sauntered past me and among the men as silent as a statue, and as quiet as a civilian. Deep faith is silent. True trust is never noisy. Like a strong river, it covers up the boulders round which the shallow stream stops to fret and chatter. I daresay David was thinking of his dear friend, long since slain on the heights of Gilboa, when the chords of his harp were swept to that undying music, Be still and know that I am God.<\/p>\n IV. The strength of his trust too comes out in another way.Jonathan distrusted all military stratagem. He only asked for a sign from God. He went up, openly, to the base of the Philistine stronghold, and at the sign of God, he made the assault. Does not that show that he knew that it was Gods work? He was to win through the sovereignty of the Lord, and not through the stratagem of man. And Jonathan found, as in like perils a thousand soldiers of the Cross have found, that the foolishness of God is wiser than men.<\/p>\n Illustrations<\/p>\n (1) One thing should be emphasisedthe character of Jonathan as the story reveals it. We see here the same soldierly ability as marked Saul in his original choice of Michmash. From his father the son had inherited his dash and reckless courage as well as his cleverness in strategy. But there was that in Jonathan which last Lesson showed wanting in Saulspiritual understanding and faith in God. The sixth verse is the key to the whole passage. Jonathan counted on the Lord to work for him, while Saul took matters into his own hand. There are no words more famous in the Old Testament than these: There is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few. And as Jonathan trusted in the Lord, so the faithful armourbearer trusted in Jonathan, as verse 7 shows. Faith in God inspires confidence, and every one is strengthened by a heroic religious soul.<\/p>\n (2) Let no disciple of Jesus undertake any enterprise without the witness of the Spirit with his spirit that God has sent him. It was according to that dispensation that Gideon and Jonathan should ask signs; but in this last timewhen the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know Him that is true, and we are in Him that is true; and as the anointing which the believing soul has received teacheth him all things, and is truth and is no liewe get our assurance of the mind of God not by asking the evidence of external signs, but by the inward witness of the Spirit with our spirit, first that we are sons of God, and then concerning every truth which He reveals unto us, and every service which He calls us to fulfil.<\/p>\n And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armorbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armorbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel. 12. we will shew you a thing ] Either, “give … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 14:12”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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