1 Samuel 12:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he said to them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.

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  • Exod 22:4 : 4 If the stolen goods are found alive in his hand, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall restore double.
  • Acts 23:9 : 9 And there arose a great outcry, and the scribes who were of the Pharisees' group arose and contended, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
  • Acts 24:20 : 20 Or else let those who are here say, if they found any wrongdoing in me, while I stood before the council,
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  • Acts 24:16 : 16 And here I exercise myself, to have always a conscience without offense toward God, and toward men.
  • 1 Sam 26:9 : 9 And David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"
  • Job 31:35-40 : 35 Oh that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book. 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 37 I would declare to Him the number of my steps; like a prince would I approach Him. 38 If my land cries against me, or its furrows likewise complain; 39 If I have eaten its fruits without payment, or caused the owners to lose their life; 40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 And it was so, after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My anger is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
  • John 18:38 : 38 Pilate said to him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, I find no fault in him at all.

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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.

    2And 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.

    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.

    4And they said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from any man's hand.

  • 2 Sam 1:16
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    16And David said to him, Your blood be upon your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.

  • 1 Sam 24:10-12
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    11Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the edge of your robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the edge of your robe and killed you not, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you; yet you hunt my soul to take it.

    12The LORD judge between me and you, and the LORD avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be upon you.

  • 1 Sam 12:6-7
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    6And Samuel said to the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

    7Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.

  • 1 Sam 26:23
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    18And Samuel told him everything, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD; let him do what seems good to him.

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    14And David said to him, How are you not afraid to stretch forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

  • 1 Sam 24:6
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    6And he said to his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 6:15
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  • 1 Sam 12:16-17
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    16Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.

    17Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call to the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.

  • 1 Sam 28:17
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  • 1 Sam 12:12-13
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  • 1 Sam 26:16-18
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    69%

    16This thing you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you are deserving of death because you have not kept your master, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."

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    12And Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.

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    15And the king said to him, How many times shall I make you swear that you tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?

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    18And you have shown this day how you have dealt well with me: for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.

  • Josh 24:22
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