1 Samuel 8:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 1 Sam 8:11-18 : 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; 12 And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages. 13 Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers. 14 He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants. 15 He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants. 16 He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work. 17 He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants. 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.
  • 1 Sam 10:25 : 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.
  • Ezek 3:18 : 18 When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
  • Ezek 45:7-8 : 7 And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the holy offering and in front of the property of the town on the west of it and on the east: measured in the same line as one of the parts of the land, from its limit on the west to its limit on the east of the land. 8 And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes.
  • Ezek 46:18 : 18 And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of the people, driving them out of their property; he is to give a heritage to his sons out of the property which is his: so that my people may not be sent away from their property.
  • 1 Sam 14:52 : 52 All through the life of Saul there was bitter war against the Philistines; and whenever Saul saw any strong man or any good fighting man, he kept him near himself.
  • 1 Sam 2:13 : 13 And the priests' way with the people was this: when any man made an offering, the priest's servant came while the flesh was being cooked, having in his hand a meat-hook with three teeth;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 8:10-11
    2 verses
    86%

    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 8:17-22
    6 verses
    84%

    17 He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.

    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 8:4-8
    5 verses
    82%

    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.

    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.

  • 1 Sam 12:12-14
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

    14 If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:

  • 1 Sam 12:1-2
    2 verses
    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.

    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 10:19
    75%

    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 10:24-25
    2 verses
    75%

    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 9:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

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

    16 Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and on him you are to put the holy oil, making him ruler over my people Israel, and he will make my people safe from the hands of the Philistines: for I have seen the sorrow of my people, whose cry has come up to me.

    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.

  • 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 15:1
    74%

    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.

  • Hos 10:3
    73%

    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 12:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    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;

  • Acts 13:21
    72%

    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 9:27
    72%

    27 And on their way down to the end of the town, Samuel said to Saul, Give your servant orders to go on in front of us, (so he went on,) but you keep here, so that I may give you the word of God.

  • 1 Sam 12:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 Now keep where you are and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes.

    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.

  • Exod 18:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19 Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:

    20 Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do.

  • 1 Sam 11:12
    71%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 15:10
    71%

    10 Then the Lord said to Samuel,

  • 1 Sam 13:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    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 28:17
    71%

    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;

  • Deut 17:10
    70%

    10 And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:

  • Judg 9:8
    70%

    8 One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.

  • 1 Sam 10:9
    70%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 10:17
    70%

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

  • 1 Chr 11:2
    70%

    2 In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.

  • 1 Sam 16:3
    70%

    3 And send for Jesse to be present at the offering, and I will make clear to you what you are to do: and you are to put the holy oil on him whose name I give you.

  • 2 Kgs 9:12
    70%

    12 And they said, That is not true; now give us his story. Then he said, This is what he said to me: The Lord says, I have made you king over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 3:18
    70%

    18 Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.

  • Jer 30:9
    70%

    9 But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.