1 Samuel 3:18
Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is the LORD. Let him do what seems good to him.”
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
19Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
Cross References
Genesis 18:25May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
2 Samuel 10:12Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God; and may the LORD do what seems good to him.”
1 Chronicles 19:13Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do that which seems good to him.”
Job 2:10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
Isaiah 39:8Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The LORD’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”
Lamentations 3:39Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of 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 →