And we also will be like all the nations; and our king shall judge us, and shall go out before us, and fight our battles.

who shall go out before them, and who shall come in before them, and who shall lead them out, and who shall bring them in; so the congregation of the Lord shall not be as sheep without a shepherd.

And it came to pass when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

and they said to him, Behold, you have grown old, and your sons walk not in your ways. And now set over us a king to judge us, as also the other nations have.

even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I have declared Your [mighty] arm to all the generation that is to come;

Hear Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by Me] from the womb, and taught [by Me] from infancy, [even] to old age;

I am [He]; and until you have grown old, I am [He]; I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.

For I am already being poured out [as a drink offering], and the time of my departure has arrived.

knowing that the putting off of my tent is soon, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

And Eli was very old, and he heard what his sons did to the children of Israel.

Therefore why have you looked upon My incense offering and My grain offering with a shameless eye, and have honored your sons above Me, so that they should bless themselves with the firstfruits of every sacrifice of Israel before Me?

And I have told him that I will be avenged on his house perpetually for the iniquities of his sons, because his sons spoke evil against God, and he did not admonish them.

And Eli said to Samuel, Samuel, [my] son; and he said, Behold, [here am] I.

And his sons did not walk in his ways, and they turned aside after gain, and took gifts, and perverted judgments.

And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and there did not fall one of his words to the ground.

And all Israel knew, from Dan even to Beersheba, that Samuel was faithful as a prophet to the Lord.