1 Samuel 12:25
in 1 Samuel 12But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
KJV
But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
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This verse in 1 Samuel 12
Commentary
6 notes on this verseBut if ye shall still do wickedly,.... Continue to rebel against God, revolt from him, and depart from his worship, and despise his prophets, and serve idols: ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king; their king would be so far from protecting, that he should perish with them, be killed by the sword, as Saul their first king was, or go into captivity, as others of their kings did.
This site's exposition
consider how great things he hath done
on 1 Samuel 12:24-25
Only fear the Lord closes the chapter on the same terms given at verse 14, and consider how great things he hath done for you names gratitude, not fear alone, as the ground of obedience. The warning that follows binds king and people in one sentence, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king, so that Saul's own fate is announced here before his first recorded failure in chapter 13. The chapter that opened on an old judge's clean record closes with a new king's future already in question.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistCommentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 2 · Written before 604.
proposed
As if he were saying: From those things which you have seen, gather how terribly you ought to fear almighty God, and how devoutly you ought always to serve Him. Which words indeed, if we wish to apply them to ourselves, we must fear God all the more reverently and serve Him all the more devoutly, the more wonderful things we have perceived in our Redeemer. But because what the good hear, the wicked boldly despise, he added, saying: But if you persist in wickedness, both you and your king alike shall perish.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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.
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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.
Ye shall be consumed - If ye do wickedly you shall be destroyed, your kingdom destroyed, and your king destroyed. Here they had set before them life and good, death and evil. Never was a people more fully warned, and never did a people profit less by the warning; and they continue to this day monuments of God’s justice and forbearance. Reader, What art thou? Perhaps a similar monument. Consider therefore what great things God has done for thee.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאִם־ | veim- | and if | H518 → | 1069 times |
| הָרֵ֖עַ | harea' | still <do evil> | H7489 → | 107 times |
| תָּרֵ֑עוּ | tareu | you will do evil | H7489 → | 107 times |
| גַּם־ | gam- | both | H1571 → | 769 times |
| אַתֶּ֥ם | ʾatem | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| גַּֽם־ | gam- | as well as | H1571 → | 769 times |
| מַלְכְּכֶ֖ם | malkekhem | king your | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| תִּסָּפֽוּ׃ פ | tisafu | you will be swept away | H5595 → | 19 times |
וְאִם־and if
veim-H518 →1069 times
הָרֵ֖עַstill <do evil>
harea'H7489 →107 times
תָּרֵ֑עוּyou will do evil
tareuH7489 →107 times
גַּם־both
gam-H1571 →769 times
אַתֶּ֥םyou
ʾatemH859 →1094 times
גַּֽם־as well as
gam-H1571 →769 times
מַלְכְּכֶ֖םking your
malkekhemH4428 →2525 times
תִּסָּפֽוּ׃ פyou will be swept away
tisafuH5595 →19 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
it leads to
- Ecclesiastes 8:13
Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
- James 2:13
For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
- Psalms 120:3–4
What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
- Psalms 28:4
Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.
- Psalms 62:12
and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
- Ecclesiastes 8:13
Through
Joshua 24:20If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”
it leads to
- Hebrews 10:26–27
If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
- Hebrews 10:26–27
Through
Hosea 10:3Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”
it leads to
- Hosea 10:15
Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.
- Hosea 10:15
Through
Deuteronomy 28:36The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 4:28
And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
- Deuteronomy 4:28
About 1 Samuel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Gregory the Dialogist, Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 2; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. G. Blaikie, The First Book of Samuel (Expositor's Bible).