1 Samuel 12 · Verse 25

1 Samuel 12:25

But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
1 Samuel 12:25, King James Version

1 Samuel 12:25 in other translations

BSBBut if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
WEBBut if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king.”
ASVBut if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
YLTand if ye really do evil, both ye and your king are consumed.'
DARBYBut if ye do wickedly, ye shall perish, both ye and your king.
BBEBut if you still do evil, destruction will overtake you and your king.
WebsterBut if ye shall still do wickedly, ye will be consumed, both ye and your king.

What does 1 Samuel 12:25 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…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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…

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1 Samuel 12:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְאִם\־ve.'im-and ifH518
הָרֵ֖עַha.Re.a'still <do evil>H7489
תָּרֵ֑עוּta.Re.'uyou will do evilH7489
גַּם\־gam-bothH1571
אַתֶּ֥ם'a.TemyouH859
גַּֽם\־gam-as well asH1571
מַלְכְּכֶ֖םmal.ke.Khemking yourH4428
תִּסָּפֽוּ\׃\ \פti.sa.Fuyou will be swept awayH5595

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Samuel 12:25

  • Joshua 24:20

    If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

  • Hosea 10:3

    For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us?

  • Deuteronomy 28:36

    The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

  • 1 Samuel 31:1-5

    Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi–shua, Saul’s sons. And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. …

  • Isaiah 3:11

    Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

  • Deuteronomy 32:15-44

    But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But if.
De 32:15-44; Jos 24:20; Isa 3:11
ye and.
31:1-5; De 28:36; Ho 10:3

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Context

  • 1 Samuel 12:24

    Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.

  • 1 Samuel 12:25

    But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.

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1 Samuel 12:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mas si perseverareis en hacer mal, vosotros y vuestro rey pereceréis.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mais si vous vous adonnez au mal, vous périrez, vous et votre roi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wenn ihr aber dennoch übeltut, so werdet sowohl ihr als auch euer König weggerafft werden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Quod si perseveraveritis in malitia, et vos et rex vester pariter peribitis.