1 Samuel 12:21

and turn not aside after vanities, that can neither profit nor deliver, because, vanities, they are.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

In Context

20Then said Samuel unto the people—Do not fear, ye, have done all this wrong,—nevertheless, do not turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh, with all your heart;

22For Yahweh will not give up his people, because of his great name, for Yahweh was minded to make you his people.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:17But, if thy heart shall turn away, and thou wilt, not hearken,—but shalt be drawn away, and shalt bow thyself down to other gods and serve them,

2 Kings 17:15but rejected his statutes, and his covenant, which he solemnised with their fathers, and his testimonies wherewith he testified against them,—and followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were round about them, as to whom Yahweh charged them, so that they should not do like them.

Isaiah 41:23Tell ye the events which shall be here-after, That we may perceive that gods, ye are,—Surely ye must do something—good or bad, That we may be amazed and behold it, at once.

Isaiah 44:9The fashioners of an image—all of them, are emptiness, And, the things they delight in, cannot profit,—And, their, witnesses, they, neither see nor know, That they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 46:7They carry him about on the shoulder They bear the burden of him—and set him in his place that he may stand,—Out of his place, will he not move,—Though one even make outcry unto him, he will not answer, Out of one’s trouble, he will not save him.

Jeremiah 2:13For two wicked things, have my people committed,—Me, have they forsaken a fountain of living water, To hew out for themselves cisterns broken cisterns, that cannot hold 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 →

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