King James Version
1 Samuel 12:1 in the King James Version says “And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a k...” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 12 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.”
1 Samuel 12:1 · KJV
And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
And 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.
Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. bribe: Heb. ransom to blind: or, that I should hide mine eyes at him
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properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“unto all Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“Behold I have hearkened”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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