1 Samuel 12:21

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Janganlah menyimpang untuk mengejar dewa kesia-siaan yang tidak berguna dan tidak dapat menolong karena semuanya itu adalah kesia-siaan belaka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Janganlah menyimpang untuk mengejar dewa kesia-siaan yang tidak berguna dan tidak dapat menolong karena semuanya itu adalah kesia-siaan belaka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Janganlah kamu menyimpang hendak menurut perkara yang sia-sia, yang tiada berguna dan yang tiada dapat menolong, karena sia-sialah adanya.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ Now also stand, & see this great thing whiche the Lorde will do before your eyes. ¹⁷ Is it not nowe wheate hearuest? I will call vnto the Lorde, & he shal sende thunder & rayne, that ye may perceaue and see howe that your wickednes is great which ye haue done in the sight of the Lord in asking you a king. ¹⁸ And so Samuel called vnto the Lord, and the Lorde sent thunder and rayne the same day: And all the people feared the Lord and Samuel exceedingly. ¹⁹ And al the people sayd vnto Samuel: Pray for thy seruauntes vnto the Lord thy God, that we dye not: for we haue sinned in asking vs a king, besyde all our [other] sinnes. ²⁰ And Samuel sayde vnto the people, feare not (Ye haue in deede done al this wickednesse, yet depart not from folowing of the Lorde, but serue the Lorde with all your heartes: ²¹ Neither turne ye away, for [then ye go] after vayne thinges, which are not able to profite you, nor deliuer you, for they are but vanitie.) ²² For the Lorde will not forsake his people, because of his great names sake: because it hath pleased the Lorde to make you his people. ²³ Moreouer, God forbid that I shoulde sinne against the Lord, and ceasse praying for you: but I will shewe you the good and right way. ²⁴ Therfore feare you the Lorde, & serue him in the trueth, and with all your heartes: & consider howe great thinges he hath done for you. ²⁵ But and yf ye do wickedly, then shall ye perishe, both ye and your king.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

vain things: Deuteronomy 32:21, Jeremiah 2:5, Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 10:15, Jeremiah 14:22, Jeremiah 16:19, Jonah 2:8, Habakkuk 2:18, 1 Corinthians 8:4

cannot profit: Psalms 115:4-8, Isaiah 41:23, Isaiah 41:24, Isaiah 44:9, Isaiah 44:10, Isaiah 45:20, Isaiah 46:7, Jeremiah 10:15

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 16:13 - vanities 1 Kings 22:43 - he turned 2 Kings 17:15 - vanity Psalms 4:2 - love Psalms 101:3 - them Ecclesiastes 5:16 - what Song of Solomon 1:7 - for Jeremiah 2:8 - do not Mark 7:7 - in vain Acts 14:15 - from 1 Corinthians 14:6 - what shall I 2 Timothy 2:14 - to no

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And turn ye not aside,.... From his worship: for then; if they turned aside from that:

should ye go after vain things; idols, which are vanity, and less than vanity:

which cannot profit nor deliver; neither bestow good things on their votaries, nor deliver them from evils, or from the hands of their enemies

for they are vain; empty, useless, and unprofitable; an idol is nothing in the world, 1 Corinthians 8:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 12:21. After vain things — That is, idols; which he calls here התהו hattohu, the same expression found Genesis 1:2. The earth was תהו tohu; it was waste, empty, and formless: so idols; they are confusion, and things of naught, for an idol is nothing in the world-it is not the representative of any intelligent being.