1 Samuel 12:8   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

"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.

1 Samuel 12:10   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

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.'

1 Samuel 12:11   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

Then the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.

1 Samuel 12:12   (Read all of 1 Samuel 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.

1 Samuel 12:13   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you asked for; see, the Lord has set a king over you.

1 Samuel 12:14   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

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!

1 Samuel 12:15   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

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.

1 Samuel 12:16   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

"Now then, stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes!

1 Samuel 12:17   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

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."

1 Samuel 12:19   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

The people all said to Samuel, "Pray to the Lord your God for your servants so that we will not die, for we have added to all our other sins the evil of asking for a king."

1 Samuel 12:20   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

"Do not be afraid," Samuel replied. "You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.

1 Samuel 12:21   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless.

1 Samuel 12:22   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was pleased to make you his own.

1 Samuel 12:23   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by failing to pray for you. And I will teach you the way that is good and right.

1 Samuel 12:24   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

But be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you.

1 Samuel 12:25   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

Yet if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will perish."

1 Samuel 13:11   (Read all of 1 Samuel 13)

"What have you done?" asked Samuel. Saul replied, "When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Mikmash,

1 Samuel 13:13   (Read all of 1 Samuel 13)

"You have done a foolish thing," Samuel said. "You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.

1 Samuel 13:14   (Read all of 1 Samuel 13)

But now your kingdom will not endure; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the Lord's command."

1 Samuel 14:1   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

One day Jonathan son of Saul said to his young armor-bearer, "Come, let's go over to the Philistine outpost on the other side." But he did not tell his father.

1 Samuel 14:6   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, "Come, let's go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will act in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few."

1 Samuel 14:7   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

"Do all that you have in mind," his armor-bearer said. "Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul."

1 Samuel 14:9   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

If they say to us, 'Wait there until we come to you,' we will stay where we are and not go up to them.

1 Samuel 14:12   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

The men of the outpost shouted to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, "Come up to us and we'll teach you a lesson." So Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, "Climb up after me; the Lord has given them into the hand of Israel."