1 Samuel 12:2 Cross References - EJ2000

² And now, behold, your king walks before you. I am old and grayheaded, and, behold, my sons are with you, and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

¹⁷ who may go out before them, and who may go in before them, and who may lead them out and who may bring them in that the congregation of the LORD not be as sheep without a shepherd.

²² Now Eli was very old and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel and how they lay with the women that served at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

²⁹ Why do ye trample my sacrifices and my offerings which I have commanded to be offered in my tabernacle and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

¹³ For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knows of (because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them).

¹⁶ Then Eli called Samuel and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I.

¹⁹ ¶ And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and did not let any of his words fall to the ground. ²⁰ And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was a faithful prophet of the LORD.

¹ ¶ And it came to pass when Samuel was old that he made his sons judges over Israel.

³ And his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after greed, receiving bribes and perverting that which is right.

⁵ and said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons do not walk in thy ways; therefore make us a king to judge us like all the Gentiles.

²⁰ that we also may be like all the Gentiles and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.

¹⁸ Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not until I have showed the strength of thy arm unto the next generation and thy power to every one that is to come,

³ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: ⁴ And even to your old age I am he, and even to grey hairs I will carry you; I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will deliver you.

⁶ For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my release is at hand.

¹⁴ knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has declared unto me.