1 Samuel 12:1

Samuel's Farewell Address

1 Now Samuel said to all Israel: "Indeed I have 1 heeded a your voice in all that you said to me, and b have made a king over you.

  1. Cross References
    Joshua 8:31
    As Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: "an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool." And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
    1 Samuel 10:8
    "You shall go down before me to Gilgal; and surely I will come down to you to offer burnt offerings and make sacrifices of peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, till I come to you and show you what you should do."
  2. Cross References
    1 Samuel 8:5
    And said to him, "Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
    1 Samuel 8:7
    And the LORD said to Samuel, "Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.
    1 Samuel 8:9
    "Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them."
    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."
    1 Samuel 8:22
    So the LORD said to Samuel, "Heed their voice, and make them a king." And Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Every man go to his city.
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