1 Samuel 15:25 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 15:25

Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord.

KJV

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ASV

Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah.

WEB

Now therefore, please forgive my sin and return with me so I can worship the LORD.”

YLT

and now, bear, I pray thee, with my sin, and turn back with me, and I bow myself to Jehovah.'

DBT

And now, I pray thee, forgive my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah.

About this book

Old Testament

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Exodus 10:17
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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I have sinned . . . turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord--The erring, but proud and obstinate monarch was now humbled. He was conscience-smitten for the moment, but his confession proceeded not from sincere repentance, but from a sense of danger and desire of averting the sentence denounced against him.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

): I pray thee, pardon my sin; as if any could forgive sin but God only. Those wretchedly deceive themselves who, when they have fallen into scandalous sin, think it enough to make their peace with the church and their ministers, by the show and plausible profession of repentance, without taking care to make their peace with God by the sincerity of it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

) to turn again with him, and assist in a public thanksgiving for the victory. Very importunate he was in this matter when he laid hold on the skirt of his mantle to detain him (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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