1 Samuel 8:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

Nevertheless, the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,

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  • Jer 44:16 : 16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness.
  • Ps 81:11 : 11 But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel did not want me.
  • Isa 66:4 : 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none answered; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I do not delight.
  • Jer 7:13 : 13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the LORD, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not listen; and I called you, but you did not answer;

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  • 1 Sam 8:4-11
    8 verses
    87%

    4Then all the elders of Israel gathered together, and came to Samuel at Ramah,

    5And said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your 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 to the LORD.

    7And the LORD said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you: for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

    8According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, by forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you also.

    9Now therefore listen to their voice: however, you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.

    10And Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked of him a king.

    11And he said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for his own use, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.

  • 1 Sam 8:20-22
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    85%

    20That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us and fight our battles.

    21And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he reported them in the ears of the LORD.

    22And the LORD said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel, Each of you go to your city.

  • 1 Sam 8:18
    84%

    18And you shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

  • 1 Sam 12:19-20
    2 verses
    81%

    19And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we do not die: for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.

    20And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: you have done all this wickedness: yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;

  • 1 Sam 10:19
    79%

    19And you have this day rejected your God, who Himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and you have said to Him, No, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.

  • 1 Sam 12:12-13
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    77%

    12And when you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, No; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.

    13Now therefore behold the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have desired! and, behold, the LORD has set a king over you.

  • 1 Sam 12:1
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    1And Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.

  • Deut 17:14
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    14When you come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, 'I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,'

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

  • Hos 10:3
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    3For now they shall say, 'We have no king, because we did not fear the LORD; what then should a king do for us?'

  • Acts 13:21
    75%

    21And afterward they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

  • Hos 13:10
    73%

    10I will be your king: where is any other that may save you in all your cities? and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?

  • 1 Sam 15:26
    73%

    26And Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you: for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.

  • Ps 81:11
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    11But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel did not want me.

  • 1 Sam 15:23-24
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    23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has also rejected you from being king.

    24And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and your words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

  • 1 Sam 10:24
    72%

    24And Samuel said to all the people, Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, Long live the king.

  • Josh 24:16
    71%

    16And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

  • 1 Sam 15:1
    71%

    1Samuel also said to Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint you to be king over His people, over Israel: now therefore listen to the voice of the words of the LORD.

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

  • Neh 9:16
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    16But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.

  • 1 Sam 11:14
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    14Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there."

  • Josh 24:21
    70%

    21And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
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    16And when all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What part have we in David? And we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel; and now, David, see to your own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

  • 1 Sam 15:10
    70%

    10Then came the word of the LORD to Samuel, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 20:8
    70%

    8And all the elders and all the people said to him, Do not listen to him, nor consent.

  • Luke 19:14
    70%

    14But his citizens hated him and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

  • 1 Sam 9:17
    70%

    17And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said to him, Behold the man who I spoke to you of! this same shall reign over my people.

  • Dan 9:6
    70%

    6Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Jer 42:13
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    13But if you say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,

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    15Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,

  • Jer 6:17
    70%

    17Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not listen.

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
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    16So when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

  • Judg 8:23
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    17And Samuel called the people together to the LORD at Mizpah;

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