1 Samuel 12:3
Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: If I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4And they said: Thou hast not wronged us, nor oppressed us, nor taken ought at any man's hand.
Cross References
Exodus 20:17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house: neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.
Exodus 23:8Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.
Leviticus 6:5All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the fifth part besides to the owner, whom he wronged.
Deuteronomy 16:19And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.
1 Samuel 12:5And he said to them: The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found any thing in my hand. And they said: He is witness.
1 Samuel 24:7And he said to his men: The Lord be merciful unto me, that I may do no such thing to my master the Lord's anointed, as to lay my hand upon him, because he is the Lord's anointed.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 12:2-6
Samuel's Discourse to Israel. ( b. c. 1069.) 1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you. 2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and gray-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day. 3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord , and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom… Read the whole commentary →