1 Samuel 12:8-18

8 “After Jacob entered Egypt, they cried to the LORD for help, and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
9 “But they forgot the LORD their God; so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.
10 They cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned; we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtoreths. But now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve you.’
11 Then the LORD sent Jerub-Baal,[a] Barak,[b] Jephthah and Samuel,[c] and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.
12 “But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we want a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was your king.
13 Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you asked for; see, the LORD has set a king over you.
14 If you fear the LORD and serve and obey him and do not rebel against his commands, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the LORD your God—good!
15 But if you do not obey the LORD, and if you rebel against his commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your ancestors.
16 “Now then, stand still and see this great thing the LORD is about to do before your eyes!
17 Is it not wheat harvest now? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain. And you will realize what an evil thing you did in the eyes of the LORD when you asked for a king.”
18 Then Samuel called on the LORD, and that same day the LORD sent thunder and rain. So all the people stood in awe of the LORD and of Samuel.

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Cross References 33

  • 1. S Genesis 46:6
  • 2. S Exodus 2:23
  • 3. S Exodus 3:10; Exodus 4:16
  • 4. S Deuteronomy 32:18; S Judges 3:7
  • 5. S Deuteronomy 32:30
  • 6. Judges 4:2
  • 7. S Joshua 11:1
  • 8. Judges 10:7; Judges 13:1
  • 9. Judges 3:12
  • 10. S Judges 3:9
  • 11. S 1 Samuel 8:8; Judges 10:10,15
  • 12. S 1 Samuel 7:3; Judges 2:13
  • 13. Judges 6:32; Judges 6:14,32
  • 14. S Judges 4:6
  • 15. S Judges 11:1
  • 16. S 1 Samuel 7:15
  • 17. S 1 Samuel 11:1
  • 18. S 1 Samuel 8:5
  • 19. 1 Samuel 25:30; 2 Samuel 5:2; 1 Chronicles 5:2; Judges 8:23; 1 Samuel 8:6,19
  • 20. S 1 Samuel 8:5; Hosea 13:11
  • 21. S 1 Samuel 9:20; 1 Samuel 10:24
  • 22. S Joshua 24:14
  • 23. Jeremiah 4:17; Lamentations 1:18
  • 24. ver 9; Leviticus 26:16; Joshua 24:20; Isaiah 1:20; Jeremiah 4:17; Jeremiah 26:4
  • 25. S Exodus 14:14
  • 26. S Exodus 14:13
  • 27. S Genesis 30:14; S 1 Samuel 6:13; 1 Samuel 7:9-10
  • 28. 1 Kings 18:42; James 5:18
  • 29. S Exodus 9:23; S 1 Samuel 2:10
  • 30. Genesis 7:12; Exodus 9:18; Job 37:13; Proverbs 26:1
  • 31. S 1 Samuel 8:6-7
  • 32. Psalms 99:6
  • 33. S Genesis 3:10; S Exodus 14:31

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Also called "Gideon"
  • [b]. Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew "Bedan"
  • [c]. Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac "Samson"
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