1 Samuel 12:2
Now you have a king as your leader. I am old and gray and my sons are with you. I walked before you (served as your leader) from childhood until this day.
1 Samuel 8:5
They said: You are an old man. You set a good example for your sons. But they have not followed it. Now we want a king to be our leader like all the other nations. Choose one for us!
1 Samuel 8:1
When Samuel was old, he appointed his sons judges over Israel.
1 Samuel 8:20
We want to be like other nations, with our own king to rule us and to lead us out to war and to fight our battles.
Numbers 27:17
and can command them in battle. Do not allow your congregation to be like sheep without a shepherd.
1 Samuel 3:19-20
Samuel grew up. Jehovah was with him and did not let any of his words go unfulfilled (fail).
1 Samuel 8:3
The sons did not follow their father's example but turned to dishonest ways of making money. They took bribes and denied people justice.
1 Samuel 2:22
Eli was very old. He heard everything his sons did to Israel. He heard how they slept with the women who served at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
1 Samuel 2:29
Why do you kick at my sacrifice and my offering, which I have commanded in my house? Do you honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?'
1 Samuel 3:13
I told him I would hand down a long lasting judgment against his household because he knew about his sons' sin. They were cursing God but he did not restrain them.
1 Samuel 3:16
Eli called Samuel and said: Samuel, my son. Here I am, he responded.
Psalm 71:18
And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare your strength to this generation, your power to all who are to come.
Isaiah 46:3-4
Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel. I have upheld you since you were conceived. I have carried you since your birth.
2 Timothy 4:6
I am already being offered (poured out as an offering), and the time of my departure has come.
2 Peter 1:14
I know that putting off my earthly dwelling is imminent, even as our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me.