1 Samuel 8:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then all the responsible men of Israel got together and went to Samuel at Ramah,

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 7:17 : 17 And his base was at Ramah, where his house was; there he was judge of Israel and there he made an altar to the Lord.
  • 2 Sam 5:3 : 3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.
  • Exod 3:16 : 16 Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt;
  • Exod 24:1 : 1 And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.

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  • 1 Sam 8:5-11
    7 verses
    84%

    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.

    6 But Samuel was not pleased when they said to him, Give us a king to be our judge. And Samuel made prayer to the Lord.

    7 And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.

    8 As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.

    9 Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.

    10 And Samuel said all these words of the Lord to the people who were desiring a king.

    11 And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;

  • 1 Sam 8:1
    79%

    1 Now when Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 8:19-22
    4 verses
    79%

    19 But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,

    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.

    21 Then Samuel, after hearing all the people had to say, went and gave an account of it to the Lord.

    22 And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to their voice and make a king for them. Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, Let every man go back to his town.

  • 1 Sam 16:4
    77%

    4 And Samuel did as the Lord said and came to Beth-lehem. And the responsible men of the town came out to him in fear and said, Do you come in peace?

  • 1 Sam 12:1
    77%

    1 And Samuel said to all Israel, You see that I have given ear to everything you said to me, and have made a king over you.

  • 1 Chr 11:3
    77%

    3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.

  • 1 Sam 10:17
    76%

    17 Then Samuel sent for the people to come together before the Lord at Mizpah;

  • 1 Sam 7:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5 Then Samuel said, Let all Israel come to Mizpah and I will make prayer to the Lord for you.

    6 So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.

  • 1 Sam 11:14
    75%

    14 Then Samuel said to the people, Come, let us go to Gilgal and there make the kingdom strong in the hands of Saul.

  • 2 Chr 5:4
    74%

    4 All the responsible men of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

  • 2 Kgs 23:1
    74%

    1 Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 9:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 So they went up to the town, and when they came inside the town, Samuel came face to face with them on his way to the high place.

    15 Now the day before Saul came, the word of God had come to Samuel, saying,

  • 2 Chr 34:29
    73%

    29 Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 8:3
    73%

    3 And all the responsible men of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

  • Ezek 14:1
    73%

    1 Then certain of the responsible men of Israel came to me and took their seats before me.

  • 1 Sam 15:34
    73%

    34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah, in the land of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 28:3-4
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    73%

    3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel, after weeping for him, had put his body in its last resting-place in Ramah, his town. And Saul had put away from the land all those who had control of spirits and who made use of secret arts.

    4 And the Philistines came together and put their forces in position in Shunem; and Saul got all Israel together and they took up their positions in Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 15:10
    73%

    10 Then the Lord said to Samuel,

  • 2 Sam 5:3
    73%

    3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 4:1
    72%

    1 Now at that time the Philistines came together to make war against Israel, and the men of Israel went out to war against the Philistines and took up their position at the side of Eben-ezer: and the Philistines put their forces in position in Aphek.

  • 1 Kgs 8:1
    72%

    1 Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to him in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

  • Exod 4:29
    72%

    29 Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:

  • 1 Sam 8:3
    72%

    3 And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.

  • 1 Sam 7:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 And Samuel was judge of Israel all the days of his life.

    16 From year to year he went in turn to Beth-el and Gilgal and Mizpah, judging Israel in all those places.

  • 1 Sam 15:1
    71%

    1 And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to put the holy oil on you and to make you king over his people, over Israel: so give ear now to the words of the Lord.

  • 1 Sam 12:19
    71%

    19 And all the people said to Samuel, Make prayer for us to the Lord your God so that death may not overtake us: for in addition to all our sins we have done this evil, in desiring a king.

  • Jer 26:17
    71%

    17 Then some of the responsible men of the land got up and said to all the meeting of the people,

  • 1 Sam 10:25
    71%

    25 Then Samuel gave the people the laws of the kingdom, writing them in a book which he put in a safe place before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

  • Josh 24:1
    71%

    1 Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.

  • 1 Sam 3:20
    71%

    20 And it was clear to all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba that Samuel had been made a prophet of the Lord.

  • 1 Sam 11:4
    71%

    4 So they sent representatives to Saul's town Gibeah, and these gave the news to the people: and all the people gave themselves to weeping.

  • 1 Chr 23:2
    71%

    2 And he got together all the chiefs of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

  • 1 Sam 15:12
    71%

    12 And early in the morning he got up and went to Saul; and word was given to Samuel that Saul had come to Carmel and put up a pillar, and had gone from there down to Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 9:18
    71%

    18 Then Saul came up to Samuel in the doorway of the town and said, Give me directions, if you will be so good, to the house of the seer.

  • 1 Kgs 12:1
    70%

    1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,

  • 1 Sam 25:1
    70%

    1 And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.

  • 1 Sam 13:11
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    11 And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were going away from me, and you had not come at the time which had been fixed, and the Philistines had come together at Michmash;