1 Samuel 12:2 “Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my…”

1 Samuel 12:2

Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

American Standard Version

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 youth unto this day.

Geneva Bible 1599

Now therefore behold, your King walketh before you, and I am old and graie headed, and beholde, my sonnes are with you: and I haue walked before you from my childehood vnto this day.

Darby Translation

And now behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and grey-headed; and behold, my sons are with you; and I have walked before you from my youth up to this day.

Young's Literal Translation

and now, lo, the king is walking habitually before you, and I have become aged and gray-headed, and my sons, lo, they [are] with you, and I have walked habitually before you from my youth till this day.

Bible in Basic English

And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.

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Cross references

“walketh”

1 Samuel 8:20 Numbers 27:17

1 Samuel 8:20 · BSB

Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”

Numbers 27:17 · BSB

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 without a shepherd.”

“I am old”

1 Samuel 8:5 1 Samuel 8:1 Psalm 71:18 2 Timothy 4:6 2 Peter 1:14 Isaiah 46:3

1 Samuel 8:5 · BSB

“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”

1 Samuel 8:1 · BSB

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

Psalm 71:18 · BSB

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

2 Timothy 4:6 · BSB

For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.

2 Peter 1:14 · BSB

because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

Isaiah 46:3 · BSB

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

“my sons”

1 Samuel 8:3 1 Samuel 2:22 1 Samuel 2:29 1 Samuel 3:13 1 Samuel 3:16

1 Samuel 8:3 · BSB

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

1 Samuel 2:22 · BSB

Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

1 Samuel 2:29 · BSB

Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’

1 Samuel 3:13 · BSB

I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.

1 Samuel 3:16 · BSB

but Eli called to him and said, “Samuel, my son.” “Here I am,” answered Samuel.

“I have walked”

1 Samuel 3:19 1 Samuel 3:20

1 Samuel 3:19 · BSB

And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.

1 Samuel 3:20 · BSB

So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Then Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to your voice in all that you have said to me, and I have set over you a king.

3Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”

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