1 Samuel 12:24 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 12:24

Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.

KJV

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ASV

Only fear Jehovah, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he hath done for you.

WEB

Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.

YLT

only, fear ye Jehovah, and ye have served Him in truth with all your heart, for see that which He hath made great with you;

DBT

Only, fear Jehovah, and serve him in truth, with all your heart; for see how great things he has done for you.

About this book

Old Testament

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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29 verses on the floor

Joshua 24:14
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.
Deuteronomy 10:21
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Psalms 19:9
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

Is it not wheat harvest to-day?--That season in Palestine occurs at the end of June or beginning of July, when it seldom or never rains, and the sky is serene and cloudless.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand. 5 And he said unto them, The L ORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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