1 Samuel 12:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.
  • 1 Sam 8:20 : 20 So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.
  • 1 Sam 8:1 : 1 Now when Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
  • 1 Sam 8:3 : 3 And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.
  • 1 Sam 3:19-20 : 19 And Samuel became older, and the Lord was with him and let not one of his words be without effect. 20 And it was clear to all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba that Samuel had been made a prophet of the Lord.
  • Num 27:17 : 17 To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.
  • 1 Sam 2:22 : 22 Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?
  • 1 Sam 3:13 : 13 And you are to say to him that I will send punishment on his family for ever, for the sin which he had knowledge of; because his sons have been cursing God and he had no control over them.
  • 1 Sam 3:16 : 16 Then Eli said, Samuel, my son. And Samuel answering said, Here am I.
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.
  • Isa 46:3-4 : 3 Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days: 4 Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.
  • 2 Tim 4:6 : 6 For I am even now being offered, and my end is near.
  • 2 Pet 1:14 : 14 For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Sam 12:1
    79%

    1And Samuel said to all Israel, You see that I have given ear to everything you said to me, and have made a king over you.

  • 1 Sam 8:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4Then all the responsible men of Israel got together and went to Samuel at Ramah,

    5And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.

  • 1 Sam 12:3
    75%

    3Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.

  • 1 Chr 11:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.

    3So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done.

    26So now, O God of Israel, it is my prayer that you will make your word come true which you said to your servant David, my father.

  • 1 Sam 12:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

    13Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.

  • 2 Chr 6:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15For you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.

    16So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.

  • 1 Sam 12:16
    72%

    16Now keep where you are and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes.

  • 1 Sam 12:5-7
    3 verses
    72%

    5Then he said, The Lord is witness against you, and the man on whom he has put the holy oil is witness this day that you have seen no wrong in me. And they said, He is witness.

    6And Samuel said to the people, The Lord is witness, who gave authority to Moses and Aaron, and who took your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

    7Keep your places now, while I take up the argument with you before the Lord, and give you the story of the righteousness of the Lord, which he has made clear by his acts to you and to your fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 2:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Now the time of David's death came near; and he gave orders to Solomon his son, saying,

    2I am going the way of all the earth: so be strong and be a man;

  • 2 Sam 5:2
    72%

    2In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
    72%

    4So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
    72%

    20And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Chr 17:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;

    8And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.

  • 2 Chr 7:17
    71%

    17And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:

  • 1 Sam 8:9
    71%

    9Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.

  • 2 Sam 19:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?

    36Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?

  • 2 Sam 15:20
    70%

    20It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.

  • 1 Sam 2:30
    70%

    30For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.

  • 1 Kgs 3:7
    70%

    7And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

  • Josh 14:10
    70%

    10And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.

  • Ps 71:18
    70%

    18Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

  • 1 Sam 26:19
    70%

    19Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.

  • 1 Sam 8:1
    70%

    1Now when Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 8:11
    70%

    11And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;

  • 1 Sam 17:12
    70%

    12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah named Jesse, who had eight sons; and he was an old man in Saul's day, and far on in years.

  • 1 Kgs 9:4
    70%

    4As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

  • 1 Sam 15:12
    69%

    12And early in the morning he got up and went to Saul; and word was given to Samuel that Saul had come to Carmel and put up a pillar, and had gone from there down to Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 9:17
    69%

    17And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, This is the man of whom I gave you word! he it is who is to have authority over my people.

  • 1 Sam 28:17
    69%

    17And the Lord himself has done what I said: the Lord has taken the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour David;

  • 1 Kgs 1:35
    69%

    35Then come up after him and he will come in and take his place on the seat of my kingdom; for he is to be king in my place, and I have given orders that he is to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.

  • 1 Sam 9:27
    69%

    27And on their way down to the end of the town, Samuel said to Saul, Give your servant orders to go on in front of us, (so he went on,) but you keep here, so that I may give you the word of God.

  • 1 Sam 15:1
    69%

    1And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to put the holy oil on you and to make you king over his people, over Israel: so give ear now to the words of the Lord.

  • 1 Sam 19:3
    69%

    3And I will go out and take my place by my father's side in the field near where you are; and I will get into talk with my father about you, and when I see how things are, I will give you word.

  • 1 Kgs 1:27
    69%

    27Has this thing been done by my lord the king, without giving word to your servants who was to be placed on my lord the king's seat after him?

  • 2 Sam 19:7
    69%

    7So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.

  • 1 Sam 22:12
    69%

    12And Saul said, Give ear now, O son of Ahitub. And answering he said, Here I am, my lord.

  • 2 Chr 1:9
    69%

    9Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number.

  • 1 Chr 17:11
    69%

    11And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.

  • 1 Sam 15:17
    68%

    17And Samuel said, Though you may seem little to yourself, are you not head of the tribes of Israel? for the Lord with the holy oil made you king over Israel,