1 Samuel 12:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֠י לֹֽא־יִטֹּ֤שׁ יְהוָה֙ אֶת־עַמּ֔וֹ בַּעֲב֖וּר שְׁמ֣וֹ הַגָּד֑וֹל כִּ֚י הוֹאִ֣יל יְהוָ֔ה לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת אֶתְכֶ֛ם ל֖וֹ לְעָֽם׃

Transliteration

kî lōʾ-yiṭṭōš YHWH ʾet-ʿammô baʿăbûr šəmô ha-gādôl kî hôʾîl YHWH laʿăśôt ʾetkem lô lə-ʿām

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - because
• *lōʾ*-*yiṭṭōš*: negative particle + qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - will not forsake
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD
• *ʾet*-*ʿammô*: direct object marker + noun masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his people
• *baʿăbûr*: preposition - for the sake of
• *šəmô*: noun masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his name
• *ha-gādôl*: definite article + adjective masculine singular - the great
• *hôʾîl*: hiphil perfect 3rd person masculine singular - it has pleased
• *laʿăśôt*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to make
• *ʾetkem*: direct object marker + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you
• *lô*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - for himself
• *lə-ʿām*: preposition + noun masculine singular - as a people

Word Meanings

• *yiṭṭōš*: forsake/abandon/reject
• *baʿăbûr*: for the sake of/because of/on account of
• *hôʾîl*: it has pleased/it was willing/it determined
• *laʿăśôt*: to make/to fashion/to establish

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 6:13 : 13 And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.
• Ps 106:8 : 8 But he was their saviour because of his name, so that men might see his great power.
• Deut 7:7-8 : 7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations: 8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
• Josh 7:9 : 9 For when the news comes to the Canaanites and all the people of the land, they will come up, shutting us in and cutting off our name from the earth: and what will you do for the honour of your great name?
• Jer 14:21 : 21 Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.
• Lam 3:31-32 : 31 For the Lord does not give a man up for ever. 32 For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.
• Ezek 20:9 : 9 And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean before the eyes of the nations among whom they were, and before whose eyes I gave them knowledge of myself, by taking them out of the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 20:14 : 14 And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.
• Rom 11:29 : 29 Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.
• Eph 1:12 : 12 So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:
• Phil 1:6 : 6 For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:
• Ps 94:14 : 14 The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
• Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
• Exod 32:12 : 12 Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.
• Num 14:13-19 : 13 And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them; 14 And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. 15 Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say, 16 Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land. 17 So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said: 18 The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation. 19 May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from Egypt up till now.
• Deut 9:5 : 5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• Deut 31:17 : 17 In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us?
• Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men: 27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
• Isa 37:35 : 35 For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
• Isa 41:17 : 17 The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.
• Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
• Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.
• Isa 48:11 : 11 For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.
• Jer 14:7 : 7 Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.
• 2 Kgs 21:14 : 14 And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves;
• 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.
• 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
• Heb 13:5 : 5 Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.
• 1 Cor 4:7 : 7 For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?
• Eph 1:6 : 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
• Mal 1:2 : 2 You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,
• Matt 11:26 : 26 Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.
• John 15:16 : 16 You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
• Rom 9:13-18 : 13 Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate. 14 What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said. 15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity. 16 So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God. 17 For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth. 18 So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.
• Lam 5:20 : 20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
• Jer 33:24-26 : 24 Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation. 25 The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me, 26 Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.