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1 Sam. 12:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For the Lord will not forsakef his people forg his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.

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Lam. 3:31‑32• ³¹For Jehovah will not cast off forever:
³²but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. (Lam. 3:31‑32)

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Ezek. 20:9,14• ⁹But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
¹⁴But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. (Ezek. 20:9,14)

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Deut. 31:17• ¹⁷{i}And my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them, and they will say in that day, Have not these evils befallen me because my God is not in my midst?{/i} (Deut. 31:17)

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1 Kings 6:13• ¹³{i}and I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.{/i} (1 Kings 6:13)

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2 Kings 21:14• ¹⁴{i}And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;{/i} (2 Kings 21:14)

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1 Chron. 28:9• ⁹{i}And thou, Solomon my son, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searches all hearts, and discerns all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cut thee off forever.{/i} (1 Chron. 28:9)

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2 Chron. 15:2• ²{i}And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin{/i}: Jehovah is with you while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. (2 Chron. 15:2)

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Psa. 94:14• ¹⁴For Jehovah will not cast off his people,{HR}Nor will he forsake his inheritance. (Psa. 94:14)

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Isa. 41:17• ¹⁷The afflicted and the needy seek water, and [there is] none; their tongue faileth for thirst: I Jehovah will hear them, [I] the God of Israel will not forsake them. (Isa. 41:17)

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Isa. 42:16• ¹⁶And I will bring the blind by a way they know not, in paths they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do to them, and I will not forsake them. (Isa. 42:16)

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Jer. 33:24‑26• ²⁴Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
²⁵Thus saith Jehovah, If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
²⁶then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them. (Jer. 33:24‑26)

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Lam. 3:31‑32• ³¹For Jehovah will not cast off forever:
³²but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. (Lam. 3:31‑32)

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Lam. 5:20• ²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us forever? —forsake us for a length of days? (Lam. 5:20)

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Heb. 13:5• ⁵Free from love of money [be] your course of life, satisfied with present things, for he hath said, I will not leave thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee: (Heb. 13:5)

for his great.

Ex. 32:12• ¹²Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. (Ex. 32:12)

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Num. 14:13‑19• ¹³{i}And Moses said to Jehovah,{/i} Then the Egyptians shall hear it (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them);
¹⁴and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou, Jehovah, art among this people, that thou, Jehovah, art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
¹⁵Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
¹⁶Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
¹⁷And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken.
¹⁸Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. (Num. 14:13‑19)

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Deut. 32:26‑27• ²⁶{i}I would say, I will scatter,{HR}I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,{HR}{/i}
²⁷{i}If I did not fear provocation from the enemy,{HR}Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it,{HR}Lest they should say, Our hand is high,{HR}And Jehovah has not done all this.{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:26‑27)

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Josh. 7:9• ⁹For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name? (Josh. 7:9)

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Psa. 106:8• ⁸Yet he saved them for his name's sake,{HR}To make known his power. (Psa. 106:8)

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Isa. 37:35• ³⁵For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. (Isa. 37:35)

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Isa. 43:25• ²⁵I, I [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins. (Isa. 43:25)

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Isa. 48:11• ¹¹For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do [it]: for how should [my name] be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. (Isa. 48:11)

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Jer. 14:7,21• ⁷Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
²¹Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. (Jer. 14:7,21)

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Ezek. 20:9,14• ⁹But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
¹⁴But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. (Ezek. 20:9,14)

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Eph. 1:6,12• ⁶unto [the] praise of [the] glory of his grace, wherein he made us objects of grace in the beloved;
¹²in order that we should be unto [the] praise of his glory, that have fore-trusted in the Christ; (Eph. 1:6,12)

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Ex. 19:5‑6• ⁵Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine,
⁶{i}and ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.{/i} (Ex. 19:5‑6)

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Deut. 7:7‑8• ⁷{i}Not because ye were more in number than all the peoples, hath Jehovah been attached to you and chosen you, for ye are the fewest of all the peoples;{/i}
⁸{i}but because Jehovah loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a powerful hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.{/i} (Deut. 7:7‑8)

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Deut. 9:5• ⁵{i}Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou enter in to possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations doth Jehovah thy God dispossess them from before thee, and that he may perform the word which Jehovah swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.{/i} (Deut. 9:5)

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Deut. 14:2• ²{i}For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and thee hath Jehovah chosen for a people of possession unto himself, out of all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.{/i} (Deut. 14:2)

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Mal. 1:2• ²I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob, (Mal. 1:2)

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Matt. 11:26• ²⁶{i}Yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.{/i} (Matt. 11:26)

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John 15:16• ¹⁶Not ye chose me, but I chose you and appointed you that ye should go and bear fruit, and your fruit abide; that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you. (John 15:16)

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Rom. 9:13‑18• ¹³according as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
¹⁴What then shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Let it not be.
¹⁵For to Moses he saith, “I will have mercy on whomsoever I have mercy and will pity whomsoever I pity.”
¹⁶So then [it is] not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that hath mercy.
¹⁷For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, “For this very thing I raised thee up, so that I might display in thee my power, and that my name might be declared in all the earth.”
¹⁸So then on whom he willeth he hath mercy and whom he willeth he hardeneth. (Rom. 9:13‑18)

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Rom. 11:29• ²⁹for indefeasible are [the] gifts and the calling of God. (Rom. 11:29)

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1 Cor. 4:7• ⁷For who distinguisheth thee? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? But if thou didst even receive, why boastest thou as not having received? (1 Cor. 4:7)

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Phil. 1:6• ⁶being confident of this very thing, that he who began in you a good work will complete [it] until [the] day of Jesus Christ; (Phil. 1:6)

• (vv. 22-23). These things are the three pillars of the Christian life. Ruin does not change {1} the grace of God which remains our assurance forever. {2} The intercession of Christ, of which Samuel's intercession is but a weak type, is able to bring us through all difficulties. {3} Lastly, the Word, of which the prophet was the mouthpiece to the people. (“1 Samuel 12” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)