Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the oth
When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.
Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.
who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the L
But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.
I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and
Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to
Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your so
For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with th
but Eli called to him and said, “Samuel, my son.” “Here I am,” answered Samuel.
because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried