1 Samuel 8:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 1 Sam 10:19 : 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.
  • Exod 16:8 : 8 And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.
  • Num 22:20 : 20 And that night God came to Balaam and said to him, If these men have come for you, go with them: but do only what I say to you.
  • 1 Sam 12:17-19 : 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. 18 So Samuel made prayer to the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people were in fear of the Lord and of Samuel. 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.
  • Ps 81:11-12 : 11 But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me. 12 So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
  • Isa 66:4 : 4 So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.
  • 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.
  • Matt 10:24-25 : 24 A disciple is not greater than his master, or a servant than his lord. 25 It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!
  • Matt 10:40 : 40 He who gives honour to you gives honour to me; and he who gives honour to me gives honour to him who sent me.
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.
  • John 13:16 : 16 Truly I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him.
  • John 15:20-21 : 20 Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours. 21 They will do all this to you because of my name--because they have no knowledge of him who sent me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 8:4-6
    3 verses
    87%

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

    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.

  • 1 Sam 8:18-22
    5 verses
    86%

    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 8:8-11
    4 verses
    84%

    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 15:26
    80%

    26 And Samuel said to Saul, I will not go back with you: for you have put away from you the word of the Lord, and the Lord has put you from your place as king over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 10:19
    79%

    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 12:1
    79%

    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 Sam 16:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    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 Sam 12:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 12:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

    20 Then Samuel said to the people, Have no fear: truly you have done evil, but do not be turned away from the Lord; be his servants with all your heart;

  • 1 Sam 15:1
    76%

    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 16:1
    76%

    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 15:28
    75%

    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 15:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 Then the Lord said to Samuel,

    11 It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.

  • 1 Sam 28:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    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 15:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23 For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.

    24 And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.

  • 1 Sam 9:17
    75%

    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 13:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Jer 15:1
    75%

    1 Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.

  • 1 Sam 11:12
    74%

    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.

  • Deut 17:14
    74%

    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;

  • Hos 13:10
    74%

    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 10:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    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 15:17
    72%

    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 9:15
    72%

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

  • 1 Sam 7:8
    72%

    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.

  • Ps 81:11
    72%

    11 But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

  • Hos 10:3
    72%

    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?

  • Deut 5:28
    72%

    28 Then the Lord, hearing your words to me, said to me, The words which this people have said to you have come to my ears: what they have said is well said.

  • Acts 13:21
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    71%

    16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.

  • Hos 8:4
    71%

    4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.

  • 1 Sam 15:14
    71%

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

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    71%

    16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.