1 Samuel chapter 12 Samuel's farewell address and Samuel said to all Israel

Behold I have obeyed your voice and all that you have said to me and have made a king over you

And now behold the king walks before you and I am old and gray and and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked

before you from my youth until this day. Here I am. Testify against me before the Lord and before his

anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I

oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken

a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.

They said, you have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand.

And he said to them, the Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness

this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they said he is witness. And Samuel said

to the people, the Lord is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron, and brought your fathers up

out of the land of Egypt. Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you

before the Lord concerning all the righteous deeds of the Lord

that he performed for you and for your fathers.

When Jacob went into Egypt and the Egyptians oppressed them,

then your fathers cried out to the Lord,

and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron,

who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.

But they forgot the Lord their God, and he sold them into the hand of Cicera, commander

of the army of Hazer, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the King of

Moab. And they fought against them, and they

cried out to the Lord and said, We have sinned because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the

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