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Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle.
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A Shocking Prophecy
Commentators explain that the phrase "ears shall tingle" describes an event so shocking and horrifying it would stun the entire nation. This wasn't just a military defeat, but a national catastrophe, identified by scholars as the capture of the Ark of the Covenant. This loss would signal to Israel that God's protective presence had seemingly departed from them.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
More accurately, the phrase is, “the which whosoever heareth both his ears shall tingle.” This expressive phrase occurs twice more in refe…
19th Century
Anglican
The ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. —The calamity referred to here was the capture of the Ark of the Cove…
Baptist
And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. In that day…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord said to Samuel The voice of the Lord continued speaking to him: behold,
I will do a …
What a great deal of guilt and corruption there is in us, about which we may say, It is the iniquity that our own heart knows; we are conscious of …
