1 Samuel 12:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² “And now, look, the sovereign is walking before you. And I am old and grey, and look, my sons are with you. And I have walked before you from my youth to 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.

1 Samuel 12:2 Cross References

Psalm 71:18

And also when I am old and grey, O Elohim, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to a generation, Your might to all those who are to come.

Numbers 27:17

who goes out before them and comes in before them, who leads them out and brings them in, so that the congregation of יהוה  be not like sheep without a shepherd.”

2 Timothy 4:6

For I am already being poured out, and the time of my departure has arrived.

Joshua 23:1

And it came to be, a long time after יהוה  had given rest to Yisra’ĕ

Joshua 23:2

And Yehoshua called for all Yisra’ĕ

2 Peter 1:14

knowing that the putting off of my tent is soon, even as our Master יהושע  Messiah made clear to me.

1 Samuel 2:22

And Ě

1 Samuel 2:29

‘Why do you kick at My slaughtering and My offering which I have commanded in My Dwelling Place, and esteem your sons above Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Yisra’ĕ

1 Samuel 3:10

And יהוה  came and stood and called as at other times, “Shemu’ĕ

1 Samuel 3:13

“For I have declared to him that I am judging his house forever for the crookedness which he knows, because his sons cursed Elohim, and he did not rebuke them.

1 Samuel 3:16

Then Ě

1 Samuel 8:1

And it came to be, when Shemu’ĕ

1 Samuel 8:20

Then we shall be, we also, like all the nations, and our sovereign shall rule us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his ways, and turned aside after own gain, and took bribes, and twisted right-ruling.

1 Samuel 8:5

and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a sovereign to rule us like all the nations.”