Cross references

1 Samuel 12:2

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.

1 Samuel 12:2 BSB

1 Samuel 12:2 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Samuel 8:5 (6 votes) and 1 Samuel 8:1 (4 votes). 6 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Numbers 27 to 2 Peter 1.

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Which verses does 1 Samuel 12:2 point to?

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  1. “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 other nations.”

  2. When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

  3. 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.”

  4. 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 LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

  5. And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground. So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.

  6. But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

  7. Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

  8. Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’

  9. I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.

  10. but Eli called to him and said, “Samuel, my son.” “Here I am,” answered Samuel.

Which verses point to 1 Samuel 12:2?

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