Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Now you have a king as your leader. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have been your leader from my youth until this day. New Living Translation Your king is now your leader. I stand here before you—an old, gray-haired man—and my sons serve you. I have served as your leader from the time I was a boy to this very day. English Standard Version And now, behold, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day. Berean Standard Bible 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. King James Bible 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. New King James Version And now here is the king, walking before you; and I am old and grayheaded, and look, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my childhood to this day. New American Standard Bible Now, here is the king walking before you, but as for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. And I have walked before you since my youth to this day. NASB 1995 “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. NASB 1977 “And 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. Legacy Standard Bible So 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. Amplified Bible And now, here is the king walking before you. As for me, I am old and gray, and here are my sons with you. I have walked before you from my childhood to this day. Christian Standard Bible Now you can see that the king is leading you. As for me, I’m old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have led you from my youth until now. Holman Christian Standard Bible Now you can see that the king is leading you. As for me, I’m old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have led you from my youth until today. 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And now, behold, the King is before you, and I have aged and I am old, and my sons, behold, are with you, and I have walked before you from my youth and until today Brenton Septuagint Translation And now, behold, the king goes before you; and I am grown old and shall rest; and, behold, my sons are among you; and, behold, I have gone about before you from my youth to this day. Contemporary English Version You have seen how I have led you ever since I was a young man. I'm already old. My hair is gray, and my own sons are grown. Now you must see how well your king will lead you. Douay-Rheims Bible And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and greyheaded: and my sons are with you: having then conversed with you from my youth unto this day, behold here I am. English Revised Version And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and gray-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth unto this day. GOD'S WORD® Translation And now, here is the king who will lead you. I am old and gray, but my sons are with you. I have led you from my youth until this day. Good News Translation and now you have him to lead you. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are with you. I have been your leader from my youth until now. International Standard Version Now here is the king walking before you, while I'm old and gray, and my sons are with you. I've walked before you from my youth until this day. JPS Tanakh 1917 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. Literal Standard Version and now, behold, the king is habitually walking before you, and I have become aged and gray-headed, and my sons, behold, they [are] with you, and I have habitually walked before you from my youth until this day. Majority Standard Bible 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. New American Bible and now the king will lead you. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are among you. I was your leader from my youth to the present day. NET Bible Now look! This king walks before you. As for me, I am old and gray, though my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from the time of my youth till the present day. New Revised Standard Version See, it is the king who leads you now; I am old and gray, but my sons are with you. I have led you from my youth until this day. New Heart English Bible Now, look, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and look, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day. Webster's Bible Translation And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and gray-headed; and behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood to 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. 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Samuel's Farewell Address1Then 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. 2Now 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. 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.”… Cross References 1 Samuel 3:10 Then the LORD came and stood there, calling as before, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel answered, "Speak, for Your servant is listening." 1 Samuel 3:19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel's words fall to the ground. 1 Samuel 8:1 When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel. 1 Samuel 8:3 But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice. 1 Samuel 8:5 "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 8:20 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." Treasury of Scripture And now, behold, the king walks before you: and I am old and gray headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood to this day. walketh 1 Samuel 8:20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. Numbers 27:17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd. I am old 1 Samuel 8:1,5 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel… Psalm 71:18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. Isaiah 46:3,4 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: … my sons 1 Samuel 2:22,29 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation… 1 Samuel 3:13,16 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not… 1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. I have walked 1 Samuel 3:19,20 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground… Jump to Previous Childhood Early Eyes Habitually Leader Walked Walketh Walking Walks YouthJump to Next Childhood Early Eyes Habitually Leader Walked Walketh Walking Walks Youth1 Samuel 12 1. Samuel testifies his integrity6. He reproves the people of ingratitude 16. He terrifies them with thunder in harvest time 20. he comforts them in God's mercy (2) And now, behold, the king walketh before you.--No doubt, here pointing to Saul by his side. The term "walketh before you implied generally that the kingly office included the guiding and governing the people, as well as the especial duty of leading them in war; from henceforth they must accept his authority on all occasions, not merely in great emergencies. Both king and people must understand that the days when Saul could quietly betake himself to his old pursuits on the farm of the Ephraim hills were now past for ever. He must lead, and they must follow. The metaphor is taken from the usual place of a shepherd in the East, where he goes before his flock. Compare the words of our Lord, who uses the same image of a shepherd walking before his sheep (John 10:27): "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me." And I am old and grayheaded.--Here the prophet, with some pathos, refers to the elders' own words at Ramah (chap 8:5). Yes, said the seer, I am old--grown grey in your service; listen to me while I ask you what manner of service that has been. Can any one find in it a flaw? has it not been pure and disinterested throughout? My sons are with you.--Yes, old indeed, for my offspring are numbered now among the grown men of the people. Possibly, however, a tinge of mortified feeling at the rejection of himself and his family, mixed with a desire to recommend his sons to the favour and goodwill of the nation, is at the bottom of this mention of them.--Speaker's Commentary. It is evident that these sons, whose conduct as Samuel's deputies had excited the severest criticism on the part of the elders (1Samuel 8:5), had been reduced--with the full consent, of course, of their father, who up to this period exercised evidently supreme power in all the coasts of Israel--to the condition of mere private citizens. From my childhood unto this day.--Samuel's life had in truth been constantly before the public observation from very early days; well known to all were the details of his career--his early consecration under peculiar and exceptional circumstances to the sanctuary service, the fact of the "word of the Lord" coming directly to him when still a boy, his recognition by the people directly afterwards as a prophet, then his restless, unwearied work during the dark days which followed the fall of Shiloh. It was indeed a public life. He would have Israel, now they had virtually rejected his rule, think over that long busy life of his for a moment, and then pronounce a judgment on it. Verse 2. - The king walketh before you. I.e. you have now one to protect and lead the nation, whereas my business was to raise its religious and moral life. The metaphor is taken from the position of the shepherd in the East, where he goes before his flock to guide and guard them. On this account the word shepherd or pastor is used in the Bible of the temporal ruler (Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 23:4, etc.), and not, as with us, of the spiritual guide. My sons are with you. This is no mere confirmation of the fact just stated that he was old, but a direct challenge of their dissatisfaction with his sons' conduct, as far at least as concerns any connivance on his part, or support of them in their covetousness. Samuel says, You know all about my sons; I do not profess to be ignorant that charges have been brought against them. Give full weight to them, and to everything said against them and me, and then give judgment.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Nowוְעַתָּ֞ה (wə·‘at·tāh) Conjunctive waw | Adverb Strong's 6258: At this time here is הִנֵּ֥ה (hin·nêh) Interjection Strong's 2009: Lo! behold! the king הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ ׀ (ham·me·leḵ) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4428: A king walking מִתְהַלֵּ֣ךְ (miṯ·hal·lêḵ) Verb - Hitpael - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk before you, לִפְנֵיכֶ֗ם (lip̄·nê·ḵem) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 6440: The face and I וַאֲנִי֙ (wa·’ă·nî) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular Strong's 589: I am old זָקַ֣נְתִּי (zā·qan·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 2204: To be or become old and gray, וָשַׂ֔בְתִּי (wā·śaḇ·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's 7867: To become aged, to grow gray and my sons וּבָנַ֖י (ū·ḇā·nay) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 1121: A son are here הִנָּ֣ם (hin·nām) Interjection | third person masculine plural Strong's 2009: Lo! behold! with you. אִתְּכֶ֑ם (’it·tə·ḵem) Preposition | second person masculine plural Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among I וַאֲנִי֙ (wa·’ă·nî) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular Strong's 589: I have walked הִתְהַלַּ֣כְתִּי (hiṯ·hal·laḵ·tî) Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk before you לִפְנֵיכֶ֔ם (lip̄·nê·ḵem) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 6440: The face from my youth מִנְּעֻרַ֖י (min·nə·‘u·ray) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 5271: Youth, the state, the persons until עַד־ (‘aḏ-) Preposition Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while this הַזֶּֽה׃ (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that day. הַיּ֥וֹם (hay·yō·wm) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3117: A day Links 1 Samuel 12:2 NIV1 Samuel 12:2 NLT 1 Samuel 12:2 ESV 1 Samuel 12:2 NASB 1 Samuel 12:2 KJV 1 Samuel 12:2 BibleApps.com 1 Samuel 12:2 Biblia Paralela 1 Samuel 12:2 Chinese Bible 1 Samuel 12:2 French Bible 1 Samuel 12:2 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Samuel 12:2 Now behold the king walks before you (1Sa iSam 1 Sam i sa) |
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