1 Samuel 12:5
And 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.
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 22:4If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep: he shall restore double.
Job 16:19O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.
Job 42:7And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite : My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before my, as my servant Job hath.
John 18:38Pilate saith to him: What is truth? And when he said this, he went out again to the Jews, and saith to them: I find no cause in him.
Acts 24:16And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without offence toward God, and towards men.
1 Corinthians 4:4For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me, is the Lord.
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 →