1 Samuel 8:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Deut 17:14-15 : 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,' 15 you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses: one from among your brothers you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
  • 1 Sam 8:19-20 : 19 Nevertheless, the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us, 20 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.
  • Acts 13:21 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 1 Sam 12:17 : 17 Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call to the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.
  • Hos 13:10-11 : 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? 11 I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.
  • 1 Sam 8:6-8 : 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.

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  • 1 Sam 8:6-11
    6 verses
    87%

    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 8:18-22
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    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.

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

    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 8:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3But his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

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

  • 1 Sam 12:1-2
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    81%

    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.

    2And now, behold, the king walks before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood until this day.

  • 1 Sam 8:1
    79%

    1And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 12:19
    78%

    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.

  • Deut 17:14
    76%

    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 12:12-13
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    76%

    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.

  • 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.

  • 1 Sam 10:19
    75%

    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 11:12
    74%

    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 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 15:1
    73%

    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 10:24-25
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    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.

    25Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

  • 1 Sam 16:1
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    1And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.

  • 1 Sam 11:14
    72%

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

  • 1 Sam 9:17
    71%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 12:17
    71%

    17Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call to the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.

  • 1 Sam 15:10
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 13:13-14
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    71%

    13And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which he commanded you: for now the LORD would have established your kingdom upon Israel forever.

    14But now your kingdom shall not continue: the LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him to be captain over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.

  • 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.

  • 1 Sam 15:28
    71%

    28And Samuel said to him, The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

  • 1 Sam 15:17
    70%

    17And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed you king over Israel?

  • 1 Sam 28:15-17
    3 verses
    70%

    15And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am in great distress; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me and does not answer me anymore, neither by prophets nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.

    16Then Samuel said, Why do you ask me, seeing the LORD has departed from you and has become your enemy?

    17The LORD has done to you as he spoke by me: for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, to David.

  • 1 Sam 9:15
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 16:10
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    10Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The LORD has not chosen these.

  • Hos 10:3
    70%

    3For 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 16:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7But the LORD said to Samuel, Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him: for the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

    8Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither has the LORD chosen this.

  • 1 Chr 11:3
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    3Therefore, all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD through Samuel.

  • 1 Kgs 12:8
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    8But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him,

  • 1 Sam 15:14
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    14And Samuel said, What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

  • 1 Sam 7:5
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    5And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 10:9
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    9And it happened, that when he turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.