1 Samuel 12:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

And now, behold, the king walks before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood until this day.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Now here is the king walking before you, but I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And now, behold, the king walketh before you; and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth unto this day.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And now lo, there goeth youre kynge before you. As for me, I am waxen olde and graye heered, and my sonnes are with you: and I haue gone before you fro my youth vp vnto this daye.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Now therefore behold, your King walketh before you, and I am old and graie headed, and beholde, my sonnes are with you: and I haue walked before you fro my childhode vnto this day.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Nowe therfore, your king walketh before you: and I am olde and graye headed, and behold my sonnes are with you, & I haue walked before you from my childehod vnto this day.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons [are] with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and now, lo, the king is walking habitually before you, and I have become aged and gray-headed, and my sons, lo, they `are' with you, and I have walked habitually before you from my youth till this day.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And now, behold, the king walketh before you; and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth unto this day.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And now, behold, the king walketh before you; and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth unto this day.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Now look! This king walks before you. As for me, I am old and gray, though my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from the time of my youth till the present day.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 And said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
  • 1 Sam 8:20 : 20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us and fight our battles.
  • 1 Sam 8:1 : 1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
  • 1 Sam 8:3 : 3 But his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
  • 1 Sam 3:19-20 : 19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground. 20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.
  • Num 27:17 : 17 Who may go out before them and who may come in before them, who may lead them out and who may bring them in; so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.
  • 1 Sam 2:22 : 22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did to all Israel; and how they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why do you scorn my sacrifice and my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?
  • 1 Sam 3:13 : 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows about; because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them.
  • 1 Sam 3:16 : 16 Then Eli called Samuel and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here I am.
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me, until I have shown your strength to this generation, and your power to everyone that is to come.
  • Isa 46:3-4 : 3 Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been carried by me from birth, who are carried from the womb: 4 Even to your old age I am he; and even to gray hairs I will carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
  • 2 Tim 4:6 : 6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
  • 2 Pet 1:14 : 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

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    1And Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.

  • 1 Sam 8:4-5
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    3Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes with it? and I will restore it to you.

  • 1 Chr 11:2-3
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    2Moreover, in times past, even when Saul was king, you were the one who led and brought in Israel. And the LORD your God said to you, You shall shepherd my people Israel, and you shall be ruler over my people Israel.

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  • 1 Kgs 8:25-26
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    74%

    25Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; if only your children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as you have walked before me.

    26And now, O God of Israel, let your word, I pray you, be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.

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

    12And when you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, No; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.

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

    15You who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him; and spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.

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    72%

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    3 verses
    72%

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    2I go the way of all the earth: be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

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    72%

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    72%

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    71%

    17As for you, if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and keep My statutes and My judgments;

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    2 verses
    71%

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    36Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

  • 2 Sam 15:20
    70%

    20Whereas you came just yesterday, should I this day make you wander with us? seeing I go where I may, return, and take back your brethren: mercy and truth be with you.

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    70%

    30Therefore the LORD God of Israel says, I did indeed say that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now the LORD says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

  • 1 Kgs 3:7
    70%

    7And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.

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    10And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am this day eighty-five years old.

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    70%

    18Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me, until I have shown your strength to this generation, and your power to everyone that is to come.

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    70%

    19Now, therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, cursed are they before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.'

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    70%

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    70%

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    70%

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    70%

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    69%

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    17And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed you king over Israel?