SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:9
El guarda los pies de sus santos, mas los impíos perecen en tinieblas; porque nadie será valiente por su propia fuerza.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 2:9
Verse 9. He will keep the feet of his saints] He will order and direct all their goings, and keep them from every evil way. The wicked shall be silent in darkness] The Targum understands this of their being sent to the darkness of hell; they shall be slain.
By strength shall no man prevail.] Because God is omnipotent, and no power can be successfully exerted against him.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. He will keep the feet of his saints , etc.] Now follow promises and prophecies of future things respecting the Israel of God, either in a literal or spiritual sense. By “his saints” are meant not angels, though they are his Holy Ones, but men, and a body of them; who though unholy in themselves, nor can they make themselves holy, yet are made so by the grace of God, in consequence of electing grace, by which they are chosen to be holy, from Christ the source and spring of all holiness, by the Holy Spirit of God, as the efficient cause, and which is done in the effectual calling; hence they live holy lives and conversations, though not altogether without sin in the present state. The word also signifies such to whom God has been kind and gracious, and on whom he has bestowed blessings of goodness, and who are bountiful and beneficent to others. These are the Lord’s, whom he has set apart for himself, and has sanctified in Christ, and by his Spirit; and of these he is keeper, not angels, nor ministers of the word, nor themselves, but the Lord himself is the keeper of them; and who is an able, faithful, tender and compassionate, constant and everlasting keeper of them; and particularly he keeps their “feet”; he indeed keeps their whole persons, their bodies and souls; the members of their bodies, and the powers of their souls, their head, their heart, their affections, from turning aside from him; he guides, directs, and orders all their actions and goings; he keeps their feet in his own ways, where he has guided them; he keeps them in Christ the way, and in all the paths of faith, truth, righteousness, and holiness, and in the way everlasting: he keeps them from falling; for though they are liable to fall into sin, and by temptation, and from a lively exercise of grace, yet not totally and finally; they are secured from it by his love to them; the promises he has made them; his power exerted on their behalf; their being in the hands of Christ, and the glory of all the three Persons concerned herein: and the wicked shall be silent in darkness ; sin has spread darkness over all human nature; every man is born and brought up in darkness, and walks in it: a state of unregeneracy is a state of darkness, in which wicked men continue; and they are in the dark about God, the perfections of his nature, his mind and will, word and worship; about Christ, and the way of life, peace, and salvation by him; about their own state and condition by nature, and the danger they are in; about the nature and necessity of regeneration; and about the Scriptures, and the doctrines of the Gospel; and living and dying; in such a state, darkness, blackness of darkness, is their portion forever: so the Targum, “the wicked in hell in darkness shall be judged:” and it is said they shall be “silent” in it; they are quiet, easy, and content in the state of natural darkness in which they are; they neither do nor will understand; they do not care to come to the light, but shun the means of light and knowledge; they have nothing to say of God, of Christ, of the Spirit of God, or of divine things; they can talk enough of evil things, and pour them out in great plenty, but not of any good; and when their evils are charged upon them by the law, their mouths are stopped, and they pronounced guilty, and have nothing to say why justice and judgment should not take place; and so they will be silent and speechless at the great day of judgment. Some interpret it, they shall be “cut off in darkness”; so Kimchi and Ben Melech; that is, by death, by the hand of God, by the sword of justice: for by strength shall no man prevail ; which is a reason both why God will keep his saints, and why the wicked shall be silent, or cut off and perish: with respect to good men, they are not saved, kept, and preserved by their own strength; they are not saved without a righteousness, without regeneration, without repentance towards God, and faith in Christ; neither of which they can perform in their own strength: nor can a saint keep himself from, or prevail over his spiritual enemies of himself, not over sin, nor Satan, nor the world; but it is by the power of God that he is kept through faith unto salvation: and with respect to wicked men, these shall not prevail by their strength over good men, or the church, who are built upon a rock, against which the gates of hell cannot prevail; nor can the wicked so prevail by their strength as to hinder their being cut off, and cast into outer darkness; they have no power over the spirit to retain it in the day of death; and whether they will or not, they shall be cast into hell, and go into everlasting punishment.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-10 - Hannah's heart rejoiced, not in Samuel, but in the Lord. She look beyond the gift, and praises the Giver. She rejoiced in the salvatio of the Lord, and in expectation of His coming, who is the whol salvation of his people. The strong are soon weakened, and the weak ar soon strengthened, when God pleases. Are we poor? God made us poor which is a good reason why we should be content, and make up our mind to our condition. Are we rich? God made us rich, which is a good reaso why we should be thankful, and serve him cheerfully, and do good with the abundance he gives us. He respects not man's wisdom or fancie excellences, but chooses those whom the world accounts foolish teaching them to feel their guilt, and to value his free and preciou salvation. This prophecy looks to the kingdom of Christ, that kingdo of grace, of which Hannah speaks, after having spoken largely of the kingdom of providence. And here is the first time that we meet with the name MESSIAH, or his Anointed. The subjects of Christ's kingdom will be safe, and the enemies of it will be ruined; for the Anointed, the Lor Christ, is able to save, and to destroy.
Original Hebrew
רגלי 7272 חסידו 2623 ישׁמר 8104 ורשׁעים 7563 בחשׁך 2822 ידמו 1826 כי 3588 לא 3808 בכח 3581 יגבר 1396 אישׁ׃ 376
