1 Samuel 8:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 And 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.
  • Ps 106:35 : 35 But they were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
  • John 15:19 : 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
  • Exod 33:16 : 16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and your people have found grace in your sight? is it not in that you go with us? so shall we be separate, I and your people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
  • Lev 20:24-26 : 24 But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from other people. 25 You shall therefore make a difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean: and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26 And you shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.
  • Num 23:9 : 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him; behold, the people shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 8:18-19
    2 verses
    85%

    18 And 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.

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

  • 1 Sam 8:4-11
    8 verses
    83%

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

    5 And 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.

    6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the LORD.

    7 And 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.

    8 According 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.

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

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

    11 And 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 8:21-22
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    79%

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

    22 And 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 12:19
    78%

    19 And 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.

  • Deut 17:14
    76%

    14 When 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 12:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 And 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.

    13 Now 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 10:19
    74%

    19 And 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.

  • Hos 10:3
    72%

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

  • 1 Sam 12:1
    72%

    1 And 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.

  • 1 Sam 11:12
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    12 And 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."

  • 1 Sam 7:8
    72%

    8 And 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.

  • Hos 13:10
    72%

    10 I 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?

  • 2 Chr 20:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 See, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

    12 O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no power against this great company that comes against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.

  • 1 Sam 10:24
    71%

    24 And 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.

  • Judg 20:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 And all the people arose as one, saying, None of us will go to his tent, nor will any of us turn into his house.

    9 But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up by lot against it;

  • Judg 11:8
    71%

    8 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore we return to you now, that you may go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

  • Judg 11:6
    71%

    6 And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

  • Josh 8:5
    70%

    5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach the city, and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

  • Acts 13:21
    70%

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

  • Josh 24:18
    69%

    18 And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we will also serve the LORD; for he is our God.

  • 1 Sam 11:14
    69%

    14 Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there."

  • Judg 20:18
    69%

    18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Who shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.

  • 1 Chr 19:13
    69%

    13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God; and let the LORD do what is good in his sight.

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    69%

    16 So 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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:57-58
    2 verses
    69%

    57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us or forsake us:

    58 That he may incline our hearts to himself, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

  • 1 Sam 17:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you will be our servants and serve us.

    10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.

  • Deut 1:41
    69%

    41 Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when you had girded on every man his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill.

  • 1 Kgs 22:4
    69%

    4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.

  • Deut 20:9
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    9 And it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
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    16 And 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.

  • Josh 24:16
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    16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

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    3 And Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will be with you in the war.

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    17 And Samuel called the people together to the LORD at Mizpah;

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    40 He said to all Israel, "You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." The people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you."

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    43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than you; why then did you despise us, that our advice was not first in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 13:3
    68%

    3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we did not inquire of it in the days of Saul.