Verse 20

So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.
  • Ps 106:35 : 35 But they were joined to the nations, learning their works.
  • John 15:19 : 19 If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
  • Exod 33:16 : 16 For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?
  • Lev 20:24-26 : 24 But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples. 25 So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you. 26 And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.
  • Num 23:9 : 9 From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.