Verse 14

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We don’t want this man to reign over us.'

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 8:7 : 7 The LORD said to Samuel, 'Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. It is not you they have rejected but they have rejected me as their king.
  • Ps 2:1-3 : 1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One. 3 Let us break their chains and throw off their ropes from us.
  • Isa 49:7 : 7 This is what the Lord, the Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: To the one despised and abhorred by the nations, to the servant of rulers: Kings will see you and stand to attention, and princes will bow down because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 In one month I disposed of the three shepherds. My soul was impatient with them, and their soul also loathed me.
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 'But as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them—bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.'
  • John 1:11 : 11 He came to His own, but His own people did not receive Him.
  • John 15:18 : 18 If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 Whoever hates me also hates my Father. 24 If I had not done the works among them that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these works, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.
  • Acts 3:14-15 : 14 You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you. 15 You killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses of this.
  • Acts 4:27-28 : 27 'Indeed, in this city, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.' 28 'They did what your hand and will had predestined to take place.'
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did. 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered him—