1 Samuel 12:21
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
1 Samuel 12:21 in other translations
| BSB | Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty. |
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| WEB | Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain. |
| ASV | and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain. |
| YLT | and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain, |
| DARBY | and turn ye not aside; for it would be after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. |
| BBE | And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false. |
| Webster | And turn ye not aside: for then would ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. |
What does 1 Samuel 12:21 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 12:17-25
17-25. Is it not wheat harvest to-day?--That season in Palestine occurs at the end of June or beginning of July, when it seldom or never rains, and the sky is serene and cloudless. There could not, therefore, have been a stronger or more appropriate proof of a divine mission than the phenomenon of rain and thunder happening, without any prognostics of its approach, upon the prediction of a person professing himself…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 12:16-25
At Samuel's word, God sent thunder and rain, at a season of the year when, in that country, the like was not seen. This was to convince them they had done wickedly in asking a king; not only by its coming at an unusual time, in wheat harvest, and on a clear day, but by the prophet's giving notice of it before. He showed their folly in desiring a king to save them, rather than God, or Samuel; promising themselves…
1 Samuel 12:21 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Samuel 12:21
- Habakkuk 2:18
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
- Jeremiah 16:19
O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
- Jeremiah 10:15
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Deuteronomy 11:16
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
- Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
- Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
- Isaiah 46:7
They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
- Jonah 2:8
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
- Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Isaiah 44:9-10
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
- Isaiah 41:23-24
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
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Context
- 1 Samuel 12:20
And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart;
- 1 Samuel 12:21
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
- 1 Samuel 12:22
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.
1 Samuel 12:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No os apartéis en pos de las vanidades, que no aprovechan ni libran, porque son vanidades. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et ne vous détournez point, car ce serait vous en aller après des choses de néant, qui ne profitent pas et ne délivrent pas, car ce sont des choses de néant. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und weichet nicht ab, denn ihr würdet den Nichtigen nachgehen, die nichts nützen und nicht erretten, denn sie sind nichtig. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et nolite declinare post vana, quæ non proderunt vobis, neque eruent vos, quia vana sunt. |