1 Samuel 12:2
Good News Translation
and now you have him to lead you. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are with you. I have been your leader from my youth until now.

New Revised Standard Version
See, it is the king who leads you now; I am old and gray, but my sons are with you. I have led you from my youth until this day.

Contemporary English Version
You have seen how I have led you ever since I was a young man. I'm already old. My hair is gray, and my own sons are grown. Now you must see how well your king will lead you.

New American Bible
and now the king will lead you. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are among you. I was your leader from my youth to the present day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and greyheaded: and my sons are with you: having then conversed with you from my youth until this day, behold here I am.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and greyheaded: and my sons are with you: having then conversed with you from my youth until this day, behold here I am.

walketh

1 Samuel 8:20 And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.

Numbers 27:17 And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd.

I am old

1 Samuel 8:1,5 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he appointed his sons to be judges over Israel. . . .

Psalm 71:18 And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

Isaiah 46:3,4 They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity. . . .

2 Timothy 4:6 For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand.

2 Peter 1:14 Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.

my sons

1 Samuel 2:22,29 Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the tabernacle: . . .

1 Samuel 3:13,16 For I have foretold unto him, that I will judge his house for ever, for iniquity, because he knew that his sons did wickedly, and did not chastise them. . . .

1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

I have walked

1 Samuel 3:19,20 And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and not one of his words fell to the ground. . . .

Context
Samuel's Farewell Address
1And Samuel said to all Israel: Behold I have hearkened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you. 2And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and greyheaded: and my sons are with you: having then conversed with you from my youth until this day, behold here I am.3Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 3:10
And the Lord came, and stood, and he called, as he had called the other times, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth.

1 Samuel 3:19
And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and not one of his words fell to the ground.

1 Samuel 8:1
And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he appointed his sons to be judges over Israel.

1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

1 Samuel 8:5
And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.

1 Samuel 8:20
And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.

1 Samuel 12:1
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