1 Samuel 3:18

So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them from him. And he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

In Context

17And he asked him: What is the word that the Lord hath spoken to thee? I beseech thee hide it not from me. May God do so and so to thee, and add so and so, if thou hide from me one word of all that were said to thee.

19And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and not one of his words fell to the ground.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:25Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked, this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

2 Samuel 10:12Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the city of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.

1 Chronicles 19:13Be of good courage and let us behave ourselves manfully for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord will do that which is good in his sight.

Job 2:10And he said to her: Thou hast; spoken like one of the foolish women: if we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Isaiah 39:8And Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which he hath spoken, is good. And he said: Only let peace and truth be in my days.

Lamentations 3:39Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 3:12-19

Eli and His House Threatened. ( b. c. 1128.) 11 And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. 12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end. 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. 14 And therefore I have sworn unto the… Read the whole commentary →

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