But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.
1 Samuel 12:25 - New Revised Standard Version But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if you still do wickedly, both you and your king shall be swept away. American Standard Version (1901) But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king. Common English Bible But if you continue to do evil, then both you and your king will be destroyed.” Catholic Public Domain Version But if you persevere in wickedness, both you and your king will perish together." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if you will still do wickedly: both you and your king shall perish together. |
But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.
For now they will say: “We have no king, for we do not fear the Lord, and a king—what could he do for us?”
The Lord will bring you, and the king whom you set over you, to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, where you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.
If you do forget the Lord your God and follow other gods to serve and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.
If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he enjoined on you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you.”
If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after having done you good.”
Saul was . . . years old when he began to reign; and he reigned . . . and two years over Israel.