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

so that we {also} may be like all the nations, and our king may rule us and go out before us and fight our battles."

who will go out before them and will come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so the community of Yahweh will not be like a flock that does not have a shepherd."

I am old

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

And even when [I am] old and gray, O God, do not abandon me until I proclaim your {strength} to [this] generation, your power to every [one that] comes [after].

"Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel who have been carried from [the] belly, who have been carried from [the] womb:

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

[because I] know that the removal of my habitation is imminent, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

My sons

Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel and that they [were] having sexual relations with the women who [were] serving [at] the entrance of [the] tent of assembly.

I will make him know that I am about to judge his household forever because of the iniquity that he knew, for his sons [were] bringing curses on themselves, but he did not rebuke them.

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after gain, they took bribes, and they perverted justice.

I have walked

And Samuel grew up, and Yahweh was with him. {He did not allow any of his prophecies to go unfulfilled}.