1 Samuel 12:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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.

Common English Bible

² The king will lead you now. I am old and gray, though my sons are still with you, and I’ve been your leader since I was young until now.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And now the king advances before you. But I am old and have gray hair. Moreover, my sons are with you. And so, having conversed before you from my youth, even until this day, behold, I am here.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² 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.

1 Samuel 12:2 Cross References

Psalm 71:18

So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to all the generations to come. Your power

Numbers 27:17

who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

2 Timothy 4:6

As for me, I am already being poured out as a libation, and the time of my departure has come.

Joshua 23:1

A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their enemies all around and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

Joshua 23:2

Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders and heads, their judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years,

2 Peter 1:14

since I know that my death will come soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

1 Samuel 2:22

Now Eli was very old. He heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel and how they lay with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

1 Samuel 2:29

Why then look with greedy eye at my sacrifices and my offerings and honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?

1 Samuel 3:10

Now the Lord came and stood there, calling as before, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

1 Samuel 3:13

For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.

1 Samuel 3:16

But Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son.” He said, “Here I am.”

1 Samuel 8:1

When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

1 Samuel 8:20

so that we also may be like other nations and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

1 Samuel 8:3

Yet his sons did not follow in his ways but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.

1 Samuel 8:5

and said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”