1 Samuel 12:21
And turn not aside after vain things which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Deuteronomy 30:17But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:
2 Kings 17:15And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.
Isaiah 41:23Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.
Isaiah 44:9The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 46:7They bear him on their shoulders and carry him, and set him in his piece, and he shall stand, and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not save them from tribulation.
Jeremiah 2:13For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 12:17-25
Samuel Calls for Thunder; Samuel Encourages and Comforts Israel. ( b. c. 1069.) 16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes. 17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the Lord , and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the Lord , in asking you a king. 18 So Samuel called unto the Lord ; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the… Read the whole commentary →