2And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
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And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here, I. Samuel gives them a short account of the late revolution, and of the present posture of their government, by way of preface to what he had further to say to them, 1 Sam. 12:1 , 2 . 1. For his own part, he had spent his days in their service; he began betimes to be useful among them, and had continued long so: “ I have walked before you , as a guide to direct you, as a shepherd that leads…
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