Thematic Bible
1 Samuel 12:1 (show verse)
Then Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me and I have appointed a king over you.
1 Samuel 12:2 (show verse)
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.
1 Samuel 12:3 (show verse)
Here I am; bear witness against me before the Lord and His anointed. Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? I will restore it to you.”
1 Samuel 12:4 (show verse)
They said, “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man’s hand.”
1 Samuel 12:5 (show verse)
He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day that you have found nothing in my hand.” And they said, “He is witness.”
1 Samuel 12:6 (show verse)
Then Samuel said to the people, “It is the Lord who appointed Moses and Aaron and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 12:7 (show verse)
So now, take your stand, that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous acts of the Lord which He did for you and your fathers.
1 Samuel 12:8 (show verse)
1 Samuel 12:9 (show verse)
But they forgot the Lord their God, so He sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
1 Samuel 12:10 (show verse)
1 Samuel 12:11 (show verse)
Then the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around, so that you lived in security.
1 Samuel 12:12 (show verse)
When you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ although the Lord your God was your king.
1 Samuel 12:13 (show verse)
Now therefore, here is the king whom you have chosen, whom you have asked for, and behold, the Lord has set a king over you.
1 Samuel 12:14 (show verse)
1 Samuel 12:15 (show verse)
1 Samuel 12:16 (show verse)
Even now, take your stand and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes.
1 Samuel 12:17 (show verse)
1 Samuel 12:18 (show verse)
So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
1 Samuel 12:19 (show verse)
Then all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, so that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil by asking for ourselves a king.”
1 Samuel 12:20 (show verse)
Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have committed all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.
1 Samuel 12:21 (show verse)
You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.
1 Samuel 12:22 (show verse)
For the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because the Lord has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.
1 Samuel 12:23 (show verse)
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way.