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Now take your positions, so I may confront you[a] before the Lord regarding all the Lord’s just actions toward you and your ancestors.[b] When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the Lord. The Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

“But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave[c] them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s army,[d] and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 12:7 tn Heb “and I will enter into judgment with you” (NRSV similar); NAB “and I shall arraign you.”
  2. 1 Samuel 12:7 tn Heb “all the just actions which he has done with you and with your fathers.”
  3. 1 Samuel 12:9 tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”
  4. 1 Samuel 12:9 tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”