1-Samuel - 12:25



25 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king."

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Samuel 12:25.

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But if you will still do wickedly: both you and your king shall perish together.
But if ye do wickedly, ye shall perish, both ye and your king.
and if ye really do evil, both ye and your king are consumed.'
But if you still do evil, destruction will overtake you and your king.
But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be swept away, both ye and your king.'
But if you persevere in wickedness, both you and your king will perish together."

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Historical Commentaries

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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.

But 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.

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