Now therefore behold, your King walketh [a]before you, and I am old and gray headed, and behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

Behold, here I am: bear record of me before the Lord and before his anointed. [b]Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I done wrong to? or whom have I hurt? or of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith, and I will restore it you?

Then they said, Thou hast done us no wrong, nor hast hurt us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 12:2 To govern you in peace and war.
  2. 1 Samuel 12:3 God would that this confession should be a pattern for all them that have any charge or office.

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