Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on 1 Samuel 12:17

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Is it: In northern latitudes, thunder and rain are far from being un-common during harvest. But rain is hardly ever known in Palestine during that season, which commences about the end of June, or beginning of July. This fact is abundantly confirmed by modern travellers, and is demonstrative to every unprejudiced reader of the Holy Scriptures, that the thunder and rain, which at Samuel's invocation, was sent at this season of the year, was a miraculous interposition of the power of God; for we read in Sa1 12:16, it was a "great thing which the Lord will do." Thus were the Israelites warned of their sin in having asked a king, and of the omnipotence of that God, whose gracious promises they virtually neglected by this act. Pro 26:1 I will call: Sa1 7:9, Sa1 7:10; Jos 10:12; Psa 99:6; Jer 15:1; Jam 5:16-18 your wickedness: Sa1 8:7 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 12:18

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