1 Samuel 12:2

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 and they said to him, "Behold, you are old, and your sons don't 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 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
  • 1 Sam 8:3 : 3 His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
  • 1 Sam 3:19-20 : 19 Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground. 20 All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.
  • Num 27:17 : 17 who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Yahweh not be as sheep which have no shepherd."
  • 1 Sam 2:22 : 22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at 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 knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.
  • 1 Sam 3:16 : 16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, "Samuel, my son!" He said, "Here I am."
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
  • Isa 46:3-4 : 3 "Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb; 4 and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
  • 2 Tim 4:6 : 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
  • 2 Pet 1:14 : 14 knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

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  • 1 Sam 12:1
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    1 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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    4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;

    5 and they said to him, "Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."

  • 1 Sam 12:3
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    3 Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? I will restore it to you."

  • 1 Chr 11:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.'"

    3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by Samuel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:25-26
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    25 Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have 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, to walk before me as you have walked before me.'

    26 "Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.

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

    12 "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 Yahweh your God was your king.

    13 Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.

  • 2 Chr 6:15-16
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    73%

    15 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

    16 "Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have 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, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.'

  • 1 Sam 12:16
    72%

    16 "Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do before your eyes.

  • 1 Sam 12:5-7
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    5 He said to them, "Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." They said, "He is witness."

    6 Samuel said to the people, "It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:1-2
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    1 Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

    2 "I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

  • 2 Sam 5:2
    72%

    2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'"

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
    72%

    4 That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,' he said, 'a man on the throne of Israel.'

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
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    20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Chr 17:7-8
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    71%

    7 "Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.

    8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

  • 2 Chr 7:17
    71%

    17 "As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

  • 1 Sam 8:9
    71%

    9 Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them."

  • 2 Sam 19:35-36
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    35 I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

    36 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

  • 2 Sam 15:20
    70%

    20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you."

  • 1 Sam 2:30
    70%

    30 "Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now Yahweh 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%

    7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am but a little child. I don't know how to go out or come in.

  • Josh 14:10
    70%

    10 "Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

  • Ps 71:18
    70%

    18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

  • 1 Sam 26:19
    70%

    19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

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    70%

    1 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 8:11
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    11 He said, "This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

  • 1 Sam 17:12
    70%

    12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.

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    4 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

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    12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal."

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    17 When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, "Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people."

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    69%

    17 Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.

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    35 Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah."

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    3 I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you."

  • 1 Kgs 1:27
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    27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

  • 2 Sam 19:7
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    7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."

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    9 Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

  • 1 Chr 17:11
    69%

    11 It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

  • 1 Sam 15:17
    68%

    17 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;