Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

For Jehovah will not cast off his people on account of his great name, for Jehovah willed to make you to him for a people.

New American Standard Bible

For the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because the Lord has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.

King James Version

For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

Holman Bible

The Lord will not abandon His people, because of His great name and because He has determined to make you His own people.

International Standard Version

Indeed, the LORD won't abandon His people for the sake of His great name, for the LORD desires to make you a people for himself.

A Conservative Version

For LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased LORD to make you a people to himself.

American Standard Version

For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself.

Amplified

The Lord will not abandon His people for His great name’s sake, because the Lord has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.

Bible in Basic English

For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.

Darby Translation

For Jehovah will not cast away his people for his great name's sake; because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people.

King James 2000

For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you his people.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for the sake of his great name, because Yahweh has decided to make you his [own] people.

Modern King James verseion

For Jehovah will not forsake His people for His great name's sake, because it has pleased Jehovah to make you His people.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But the LORD will not forsake his people, because of his great name's sake: because the LORD hath begun to make you his people.

NET Bible

The Lord will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. The Lord was pleased to make you his own people.

New Heart English Bible

For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people to himself.

The Emphasized Bible

For Yahweh will not give up his people, because of his great name, for Yahweh was minded to make you his people.

Webster

For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

World English Bible

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.

Youngs Literal Translation

for Jehovah doth not leave His people, on account of His great name; for Jehovah hath been pleased to make you to Him for a people.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For the Lord

Usage: 0

will not forsake
נטשׁ 
Natash 
Usage: 40

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

שׁם 
Shem 
Usage: 865

יאל 
Ya'al 
Usage: 18

the Lord

Usage: 0

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 Samuel 12:22

References

Images 1 Samuel 12:22

Prayers for 1 Samuel 12:22

Context Readings

Samuel's Charge To Israel

21 And ye shall not turn aside: for after vanities which will not profit, and they will not deliver, for they are vanities. 22 For Jehovah will not cast off his people on account of his great name, for Jehovah willed to make you to him for a people. 23 Also I, far be it to me sinning against Jehovah ceasing to pray for you: and I taught you in the good and straight way.



Cross References

Joshua 7:9

And the Canaanite and all inhabiting the land shall hear, and they encompassed about us, and they cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?

1 Kings 6:13

And I dwelt in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel

Psalm 106:8

And he will save them for sake of his name, to make known his powers.

Deuteronomy 7:7-8

Not for your multitude did Jehovah delight in you above all the peoples, and will he choose you, for ye were few more than all the peoples.

Jeremiah 14:21

Thou wilt not despise us; for sake of thy name, thou wilt not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, thou wilt not break thy covenant with us.

Exodus 32:12

Lest the Egyptians shall speak, saying, With evil he brought them forth to kill them in the mountains, and to finish them from the face of the earth. Turn back from the heat of thy wrath, and repent concerning evil towards thy people

Deuteronomy 14:2

For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah chose in thee to be to him for a people of acquisition above all people which are upon the face of the earth.

Psalm 94:14

For Jehovah will not cast off his people, and he will not forsake his inheritance.

Ezekiel 20:9

And I will do for sake of my name, that it was not profaned before the eyes of the nations which they were in the midst of them, which I was made known to them before their eyes to bring them forth from the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:14

And I shall do for sake of my name, that it was not polluted before the eyes of the nations which I brought them forth before their eyes

1 Peter 2:9

And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

Exodus 19:5-6

And now if hearing, ye shall hear to my voice, and watch my covenant, and ye were to me wealth above all peoples, for to me is all the earth.

Numbers 14:13-19

And Moses will say to Jehovah, And the Egyptians heard, for thou didst bring up with thy strength this people from the midst of them;

Deuteronomy 9:5

Not for thy justice and for the straightness of thy heart thou goest in to possess this land, but for the injustice of these nations Jehovah thy God dispossesses them from before thee, and order to lift up the word which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob.

Deuteronomy 31:17

And my anger was kindled against him in that day, and I forsook them, and I hid my face from them, and he was for consuming, and many evils finding him, and afflictions, and he said in that day, Is it not because God is not in the midst of me these evils find us?

Deuteronomy 32:26-27

I have said I will blow them away, I will turn away their remembrance from man;

2 Kings 21:14

And I thrust out the remainder of my inheritance, and I gave them into the hand of their enemies; and they were for plunder and for a prey to all their enemies.

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, O Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing soul: for Jehovah searched all hearts, and he understands every formation of the thoughts: if thou shalt seek him he will be found to thee, and if thou wilt forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

And he will go forth before Asa, and say to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah is with you in your being with him; and if ye will seek him he will be found to you; and if ye will forsake him, he will forsake you.

Isaiah 37:35

And I covered over this city to Save it for my sake, and for the sake of David my servant.

Isaiah 41:17

The poor and the needy seeking water, and none; their tongue failing in thirst, I Jehovah will answer them; the God of Israel, I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:16

I brought the blind by a way they knew not; and I will cause them to tread in beaten paths they knew not: I will set darkness for light before them, and crooked ways into straightness; these words I did them, and I forsook them not

Isaiah 43:25

I, I am he wiping away thy transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 48:11

For my :sake, for my sake will I do: for how shall it be defiled? and I will not give my glory to another.

Jeremiah 14:7

If our iniquities answered against us, O Jehovah, do for sake of thy name: for our turnings back were many; we sinned against thee.

Jeremiah 33:24-26

Sawest thou not what this people spake, saying, The two families which Jehovah chose in them, and he will reject them? and they will despise my people from being yet a nation before them.

Lamentations 3:31-32

For Jehovah will not cast of forever:

Lamentations 5:20

Wherefore wilt thou forget us forever? wilt thou forsake us to length of days?

Malachi 1:2

I loved you, said Jehovah. And ye said, In what didst thou love us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob? says Jehovah: and loving Jacob.

Matthew 11:26

Yes, Father: for so was it benevolence before thee.

John 15:16

Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.

Romans 9:13-18

As has been written, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated.

Romans 11:29

For the favors and calling of God not causing repentance.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who distinguishes thee? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? and if thou also didst receive, why dost thou boast, as not having received?

Ephesians 1:6

To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he rendered us acceptable in the beloved.

Ephesians 1:12

For us to be to the praise of his glory, who before hoped in Christ.

Philippians 1:6

Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

Hebrews 13:5

The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.

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