1 Samuel 12:2

Samuel's Charge To Israel

¹ Samuel said to all Israel: I listened to everything you said to me and established a king over you. ² Now, here is the king walking before you, but I am old and gray, and behold my sons are with you. And I have walked before you from my youth even to this day. ³ Here I am! Testify against me before Jehovah and before his anointed one. Whose bull have I stolen? Whose donkey have I taken? Have I cheated anyone? Have I oppressed any? Have I ever taken a bribe? Tell me and I will make it right.

Before Your Eyes

Before Your Face

Going to and Fro

To This Day

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.