1 Samuel 8:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Deut 17:14-15 : 14 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you; 15 Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.
  • 1 Sam 8:19-20 : 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.
  • Acts 13:21 : 21 Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years.
  • 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.
  • 1 Sam 12:17 : 17 Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves.
  • Hos 13:10-11 : 10 Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers. 11 I have given you a king, because I was angry, and have taken him away in my wrath.
  • 1 Sam 8:6-8 : 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.

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  • 1 Sam 8:6-11
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    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 8:18-22
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    18 Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.

    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 8:3-4
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    84%

    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.

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

  • 1 Sam 12:1-2
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    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.

    2 And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.

  • 1 Sam 8:1
    79%

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

  • 1 Sam 12:19
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    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.

  • Deut 17:14
    76%

    14 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;

  • 1 Sam 12:12-13
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    12 And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

    13 Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.

  • Acts 13:21
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    21 Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years.

  • 1 Sam 10:19
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    19 But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.

  • 1 Sam 11:12
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    12 And the people said to Samuel, Who was it who said, Is Saul to be our king? give the men up, so that we may put them to death.

  • Hos 13:10
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    10 Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers.

  • 1 Sam 15:1
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    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 10:24-25
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    24 And Samuel said to all the people, Do you see the man of the Lord's selection, how there is no other like him among all the people? And all the people with loud cries said, Long life to the king!

    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.

  • 1 Sam 16:1
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    1 And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.

  • 1 Sam 11:14
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    14 Then Samuel said to the people, Come, let us go to Gilgal and there make the kingdom strong in the hands of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 9:17
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    17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, This is the man of whom I gave you word! he it is who is to have authority over my people.

  • 1 Sam 12:17
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    17 Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves.

  • 1 Sam 15:10
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    10 Then the Lord said to Samuel,

  • 1 Sam 13:13-14
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    13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.

    14 But now, your authority will not go on: the Lord, searching for a man who is pleasing to him in every way, has given him the place of ruler over his people, because you have not done what the Lord gave you orders to do.

  • 1 Sam 7:8
    71%

    8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Go on crying to the Lord our God for us to make us safe from the hands of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 15:28
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    28 And Samuel said to him, The Lord has taken away the kingdom of Israel from you this day by force, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.

  • 1 Sam 15:17
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    17 And Samuel said, Though you may seem little to yourself, are you not head of the tribes of Israel? for the Lord with the holy oil made you king over Israel,

  • 1 Sam 28:15-17
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    15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you made me come up, troubling my rest? And Saul in answer said, I am in great danger; for the Philistines are making war on me, and God has gone away from me and will no longer give me any answer, by the prophets or by dreams: so I have sent for you to make clear to me what I am to do.

    16 And Samuel said, Why do you put your questions to me, seeing that God has gone away from you and is on the side of him who is against you?

    17 And the Lord himself has done what I said: the Lord has taken the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour David;

  • 1 Sam 9:15
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    15 Now the day before Saul came, the word of God had come to Samuel, saying,

  • 1 Sam 16:10
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    10 And Jesse made his seven sons come before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not taken any of these.

  • Hos 10:3
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    3 Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?

  • 1 Sam 16:7-8
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    7 But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.

    8 Then Jesse sent for Abinadab and made him come before Samuel. And he said, The Lord has not taken this one.

  • 1 Chr 11:3
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    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 Kgs 12:8
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    8 But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him:

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    14 And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?

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

  • 1 Sam 10:9
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    9 And it came about, that when he went away from Samuel, God gave him a changed heart: and all those signs took place that day.