...gray, and my sons, they are here with you, and I have walked before you from my youth till this day. Here I am! Witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed. Whose ox have I taken and whose donkey have I taken. 1. And Samuel said to Israel It is not clear whether Samuels farewell...

...It is time to sum up leadership among the people. now; I am old and gray. . . . 3 Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? . . . Testify against me and...

...life, my action has never been influenced by desire for gain, and that I can in all sincerity inquire, "Whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes therewith?"13 No responsibility for wars that have been waged or blood that has been shed rests...

...this issue. It was a common feature of Mediterranean life, fudging by the parallel in i Samuel 12: 3; 'Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded?' 155 *61!! Phthia was a city in Thessahy and the capital of Achilles' kingdom. Here, however, it seems...

...20:11 And Samuel said unto all Israel . . . Behold here I am: witness against me before the Lord . . . whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken?...Or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes therewith? And I will restore it to you. 1 Samuel 12:1, 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought...

...on himself. He gave them the king they wanted, but he called the tribes together and made a speech: whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of...to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it to you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought...

...taken from them," or by Samuel when he exclaimed, "Here I am: Witness against me before the Eternal Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken?...defrauded, whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe, to blind my eyes herewith?. . ." were always before the eyes of the nation, and it was...

...triers of the vicinage. Of you, then, my neighbors, I may ask, in the face of the world, 'whose ox have I taken, or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed, or of whose hand have I received a bribe to blind mine eyes therewith?' On your verdict I rest with conscious security. Your wishes...

...pervert the words of the righteous. When he was "old and grayheaded" Samuel testified in 1 Samuel 12:3, Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord,...blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. Israel confirmed the integrity of Samuel. They said in I Samuel 12:4, And they said, Thou hast not...

...altered. When he returned to his Albemarle neighbors, he asked, "In the face of the world, 'whose ox have I taken, or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed, or of whose hand have I received a bribe to blind my eyes therewith?' On your verdict I rest with conscious security." Fifty years later,...