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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Samuel 12 Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">HPBT</a> > 1 Samuel 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/11.htm" title="1 Samuel 11">◄</a> 1 Samuel 12 <a href="../1_samuel/13.htm" title="1 Samuel 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>And Shemueil said to all Israel: “Behold, I have listened to your voice, all that you have told me, and I have crowned a King over you <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>And now, behold, the King is before you, and I have aged and I am old, and my sons, behold, are with you, and I have walked before you from my youth and until today <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>Behold, I am standing before you. Testify to me before LORD JEHOVAH and before his Anointed, whose ox have I taken or whose male donkey have I taken, or whom have I defrauded or whom have I afflicted, or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, and my eye has gazed at it? Tell me and I shall pay you!” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>They were saying to him: “You have not defrauded us, neither have you oppressed us, and you have not taken a thing from any man of us!” <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>He said to them: “God is a witness among you, and his Anointed is a witness among you today, that you have not found anything in my hands.” And they were saying, “He is a witness!”<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>And Shemueil said to the people: “LORD JEHOVAH alone is God who made Moshe and Aaron and brought our fathers up from the land of Egypt <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Arise now and I shall judge you before LORD JEHOVAH in all his righteousness that he did with you and with your fathers <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>When Yaqob entered into Egypt and your fathers prayed before LORD JEHOVAH and LORD JEHOVAH sent Moshe and Aaron and brought up your fathers from the land of Egypt and settled them in this place <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>And they forgot LORD JEHOVAH their God and he delivered them into the hand of Sisra, General of the army of Khatsur, and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the King of Moab, and they fought with them <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>And they prayed before LORD JEHOVAH and they said: “We have sinned, for we have forsaken LORD JEHOVAH our God and we have served Baal and the secret places, and now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we shall serve you!” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>And LORD JEHOVAH sent Debora and Baraq and Gedun and Nephthakh and Shemun and he saved you from the hand of your enemies, those who surrounded you, and you lived in quietness<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>And you saw Nakhash, King of the children of Amon, coming for you, and you said: “‘Not so, but a King will reign over us!’ And LORD JEHOVAH your God was your King <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>And now, behold, the King whom you have chosen, and you asked! Behold, LORD JEHOVAH has given you a King! <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>And if you will stand in awe of LORD JEHOVAH and you will work for him, and you will listen to his voice, and you will not anger him, you and the King who reigns over you will also be following LORD JEHOVAH your God <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>And if you will not hear the voice of LORD JEHOVAH your God, and you will anger him, the hand of LORD JEHOVAH will be among you according to what happened to your fathers <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>And now, be ready and see this great response that LORD JEHOVAH makes to you <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>Behold the harvest of wheat is today. I shall call LORD JEHOVAH and he will give noise and rain, and know and see that your great evil is that you have asked for yourselves a King!” <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Shemueil called LORD JEHOVAH, and LORD JEHOVAH gave a sound and rain in that place, and all the people were very afraid of LORD JEHOVAH and of Shemueil<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>And all the people said to Shemueil: “Pray for your Servants before LORD JEHOVAH your God, and we will not die, because we have added to all our sins a great evil, that we ask for ourselves a King!” <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>And Shemueil said to the people: “You shall not be afraid! You have done all this evil, however do not turn away from after LORD JEHOVAH, but serve LORD JEHOVAH with all your heart! <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>And do not turn away after empty things, that you will not die, and they are not saving you because they are empty things <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>Because LORD JEHOVAH has not abandoned his people, because his name is great, for he has been persuaded to make you a people to himself <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>And I, God forbid me that I would sin against LORD JEHOVAH and I would not pray for you, and I shall teach you the good way and uprightness <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>But stand in awe of LORD JEHOVAH and work for him in the truth with all your heart and with all your soul, and see that he has been great with you <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/12-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>And if you will certainly do evil, even you and your King shall die!” <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated<br>Translated by Glenn David Bauscher<br>Glenn David Bauscher<br>Lulu Publishing<br>Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing<br>3rd edition Copyright © 2019<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_samuel/11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Samuel 11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_samuel/13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Samuel 13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>