Verse 20

Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us, govern us, and fight our battles.

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  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 They said to him, 'You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us, like all the other nations.'
  • Ps 106:35 : 35 but they mingled with the nations and adopted their ways.
  • John 15:19 : 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. But you do not belong to the world, for I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore, 'Come out from among them and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.'
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
  • Exod 33:16 : 16 For how will anyone know that You are pleased with me and with Your people unless You go with us? What else will distinguish me and Your people from all the other peoples on the face of the earth?
  • Lev 20:24-26 : 24 But I said to you, 'You will inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples. 25 You must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean. Do not make yourselves detestable by any animal, bird, or anything that moves on the ground that I have set apart as unclean for you. 26 You shall be holy to me, for I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the peoples to be mine.
  • Num 23:9 : 9 For from the top of the rocks I see them, from the hills I behold them; they are a people who live apart and do not consider themselves among the nations.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be His treasured possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.