1 Samuel 12:7-15 And now stand up, that I may hold judgment with you before the Lord concerning all the benefits of the Lord, which he hath done to you and to your fathers.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ And now stand up, that I may hold judgment with you before the Lord concerning all the benefits of the Lord, which he hath done to you and to your fathers. ⁸ When Jacob was come into Egypt, then did your fathers cry unto the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and they brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and caused them to dwell in this place. ⁹ And when they forgot the Lord their God, he sold them into the hand of Sissera, the chief of the host of Chazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they made war against them. ¹⁰ And they cried then unto the Lord, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served the Be’alim and the ‘Ashtaroth; and now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee. ¹¹ And the Lord sent Yerubba’al, and Bedan, and Yiphthach, and Samuel, and he delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, so that ye dwelt safely. ¹² But when ye saw that Nachash the king of the children of ‘Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, No; but a king shall reign over us: when the Lord your God is your king. ¹³ And now here is the king whom ye have chosen, whom ye have asked for! and, behold, the Lord hath set over you a king. ¹⁴ If ye will fear the Lord, and serve him, and obey his voice, and will not rebel against the will of the Lord: then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the Lord your God. ¹⁵ But if ye will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, and rebel against the will of the Lord: then will the hand of the Lord be against you, as it was against your fathers.