1 Samuel 12:1

Samuel then said vnto all Israel, Behold, I haue hearkened vnto your voyce in all that yee sayde vnto mee, and haue appoynted a King ouer you.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Now therefore behold, your King walketh before you, and I am old and graie headed, and beholde, my sonnes are with you: and I haue walked before you from my childehood vnto this day.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 8:7And the Lord said vnto Samuel, Heare the voyce of the people in all that they shall say vnto thee: for they haue not cast thee away, but they haue cast me away, that I should not reigne ouer the.

1 Samuel 10:1Then Samuel tooke a viole of oyle and powred it vpon his head, and kissed him, and saide, Hath not the Lord anointed thee to be gouernour ouer his inheritance?

1 Samuel 11:14Then saide Samuel vnto ye people, Come, that we may goe to Gilgal, and renue the kingdome there.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 12:1

We left the general assembly of the states together, in the close of the foregoing chapter; in this chapter we have Samuel's speech to them, when he resigned the government into the hands of Saul, in which, I. He clears himself from all suspicion or imputation of mismanagement, while the administration was in his hands, ver. 1-5 . II. He reminds them of the great things God had done for them and for their fathers, ver. 6-13 . III. He sets before them good and evil, the blessing and the curse, ver. 14, 15 . IV. He… Read the whole commentary →

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