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

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.

and can command them in battle. Do not allow your congregation to be like sheep without a shepherd.

I am old

When Samuel was old, 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, all you who remain of the house of Israel. I have upheld you since you were conceived. I have carried you since your birth.

I am already being offered (poured out as an offering), and the time of my departure has come.

I know that putting off my earthly dwelling is imminent, even as our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me.

My sons

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.

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.

The sons did not follow their father's example but turned to dishonest ways of making money. They took bribes and denied people justice.

I have walked

Samuel grew up. Jehovah was with him and did not let any of his words go unfulfilled (fail).