1 Samuel 8:20

American Standard Version (1901)

that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

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  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 and they said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
  • Ps 106:35 : 35 But mingled themselves with the nations, And learned their works,
  • John 15:19 : 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
  • Exod 33:16 : 16 For wherein now shall it be known that I have found favor in thy sight, I and thy people? is it not in that thou goest with us, so that we are separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?
  • Lev 20:24-26 : 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples. 25 Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.
  • Num 23:9 : 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that dwelleth alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

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    18And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.

    19But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay: but we will have a king over us,

  • 1 Sam 8:4-11
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    83%

    4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah;

    5and they said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

    6But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto Jehovah.

    7And Jehovah said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

    8According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

    9Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit thou shalt protest solemnly unto them, and shalt show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

    10And Samuel told all the words of Jehovah unto the people that asked of him a king.

    11And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

  • 1 Sam 8:21-22
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    21And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Jehovah.

    22And Jehovah said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.

  • 1 Sam 12:19
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    19And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto Jehovah thy God, that we die not; for we have added unto all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.

  • Deut 17:14
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    14When thou art come unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me;

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    12And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay, but a king shall reign over us; when Jehovah your God was your king.

    13Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have asked for: and, behold, Jehovah hath set a king over you.

  • 1 Sam 10:19
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    19but ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saveth you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and ye have said unto him, [Nay], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Jehovah by your tribes, and by your thousands.

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    3Surely now shall they say, We have no king; for we fear not Jehovah; and the king, what can he do for us?

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    1And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.

  • 1 Sam 11:12
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    12And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.

  • 1 Sam 7:8
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    8And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto Jehovah our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

  • Hos 13:10
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  • 2 Chr 20:11-12
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    11behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

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    24And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom Jehovah hath chosen, that there is none like him along all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king.

  • Judg 20:8-9
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    8And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn unto his house.

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  • Judg 11:8
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    8And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore are we turned again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and thou shalt be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

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    18And the children of Israel arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah [shall go up] first.

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