1 Samuel 12:2

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1 Samuel 12:2

Now you can see that the king is leading you. As for me, I’m old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have led you from my youth until today.

1 Samuel 8:5

They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not follow your example. Therefore, appoint a king to judge us the same as all the other nations have.”

1 Samuel 8:1

When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

1 Samuel 8:20

Then we’ll be like all the other nations: our king will judge us, go out before us, and fight our battles.”

Numbers 27:17

who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the Lord’s community won’t be like sheep without a shepherd.”

1 Samuel 3:19-20

Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and He fulfilled everything Samuel prophesied.

1 Samuel 8:3

However, his sons did not walk in his ways—they turned toward dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

1 Samuel 2:22

Now Eli was very old. He heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Why, then, do all of you despise My sacrifices and offerings that I require at the place of worship? You have honored your sons more than Me, by making yourselves fat with the best part of all of the offerings of My people Israel.’

1 Samuel 3:13

I told him that I am going to judge his family forever because of the iniquity he knows about: his sons are defiling the sanctuary, and he has not stopped them.

1 Samuel 3:16

but Eli called him and said, “Samuel, my son.”

“Here I am,” answered Samuel.

Psalm 71:18

Even when I am old and gray,
God, do not abandon me.
Then I will proclaim Your power
to another generation,
Your strength to all who are to come.

Isaiah 46:3-4

“Listen to Me, house of Jacob,
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who have been sustained from the womb,
carried along since birth.

2 Timothy 4:6

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time for my departure is close.

2 Peter 1:14

knowing that I will soon lay aside my tent, as our Lord Jesus Christ has also shown me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

1 Samuel 12:2

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.

Walketh

1 Samuel 8:20

Numbers 27:17

I am old

2 Peter 1:14

My sons

1 Samuel 2:22

1 Samuel 3:13

1 Samuel 8:3

I have walked

1 Samuel 3:19

Bible References

Walketh

Then we’ll be like all the other nations: our king will judge us, go out before us, and fight our battles.”

who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the Lord’s community won’t be like sheep without a shepherd.”

I am old

When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

Even when I am old and gray,
God, do not abandon me.
Then I will proclaim Your power
to another generation,
Your strength to all who are to come.

“Listen to Me, house of Jacob,
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who have been sustained from the womb,
carried along since birth.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time for my departure is close.

knowing that I will soon lay aside my tent, as our Lord Jesus Christ has also shown me.

My sons

Now Eli was very old. He heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

I told him that I am going to judge his family forever because of the iniquity he knows about: his sons are defiling the sanctuary, and he has not stopped them.

However, his sons did not walk in his ways—they turned toward dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

I have walked

Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and He fulfilled everything Samuel prophesied.