1 Samuel 12:21
Do not turn away after empty things that cannot profit or rescue you, because they are useless.
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Deuteronomy 30:17But if your heart turns away, and you do not listen but instead are drawn away and bow down to other gods and worship them,
2 Kings 17:15They rejected his statutes and the covenant that he had made with their ancestors, and the covenant decrees that he had given to them. They followed useless practices and they themselves became useless. They followed the pagan nations who were around them, those that Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate.
Isaiah 41:23Tell things about the future, that we may know if you are gods; 1 do something good or evil, that we may be frightened and impressed. 1
Isaiah 44:9All who fashion idols are nothing; the things they delight in are worthless; 1 their witnesses cannot see or know anything, and they will be put to shame. 1
Isaiah 46:7They lift it on their shoulder and carry it; they set it in its place, and it stands in its place and does not move from it. 1 They cry out to it, but it cannot answer nor save anyone from his trouble. 1
Jeremiah 2:13For my people have committed two evils against me: They have abandoned the springs of living waters, 1 and they have dug out cisterns for themselves, 1 broken cisterns that cannot hold water. 1
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 →