King James Version
1 Samuel 12:16 in the King James Version says “Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 12 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.”
1 Samuel 12:16 · KJV
If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God: commandment: Heb. mouth continue: Heb. be after
But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.
Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.
So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Now therefore”
H1571properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“stand”
H3320to place (any thing so as to stay); reflexively, to station, offer, continue
“and see”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“thing”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“before your eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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