1 Samuel 12:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the Lord will not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”

I am old

And it came about when Samuel was old that he appointed his sons judges over Israel.

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.

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,
You who have been borne by Me from birth
And have been carried from the womb;

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

My sons

Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

For I have told him that I am about to judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves and he did not rebuke them.

His sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain and took bribes and perverted justice.

I have walked

Thus Samuel grew and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fail.