1 Samuel 8:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

Additional Resources

Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    The LORD said to Samuel, 'Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. It is not you they have rejected but they have rejected me as their king.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Jehovah said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The LORDE saide vnto Samuel: Herken vnto the voice of the people in all yt they haue sayde vnto the. For they haue not refused the, but me, yt I shulde not be kinge ouer them.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And the Lord said vnto Samuel, Heare the voyce of the people in all that they shall say vnto thee: for they haue not cast thee away, but they haue cast me away, that I should not reigne ouer the.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And the Lorde saide vnto Samuel, Heare the voyce of the people in all that they say vnto thee: For they haue not cast thee away, but they haue cast me away, that I should not raigne ouer them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And Jehovah said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And Jehovah said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The LORD said to Samuel,“Do everything the people request of you. For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 10:19 : 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.
  • Exod 16:8 : 8 And Moses said, This shall be when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread to the full in the morning; for the LORD hears your complaints which you make against him: and what are we? Your complaints are not against us, but against the LORD.
  • Num 22:20 : 20 And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come to call you, rise up, and go with them; but only the word which I shall say to you, that shall you do.
  • 1 Sam 12:17-19 : 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. 18 So Samuel called to the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. 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.
  • Ps 81:11-12 : 11 But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel did not want me. 12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' desires, and they walked in their own counsels.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Matt 10:24-25 : 24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his master, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call those of his household?
  • Matt 10:40 : 40 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 He who hears you hears me; and he who despises you despises me; and he who despises me despises him who sent me.
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 But his citizens hated him and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 But those my enemies, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.
  • John 13:16 : 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, The servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.
  • John 15:20-21 : 20 Remember the word I said to you, 'The servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent me.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Sam 8:4-6
    3 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.

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

    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 8:8-11
    4 verses
    84%

    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 15:26
    80%

    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.

  • 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 12:1
    79%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 16:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    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 Sam 12:12-13
    2 verses
    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.

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

    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 15:1
    76%

    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 16:1
    76%

    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 15:28
    75%

    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 15:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

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

    11It grieves Me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried to the LORD all night.

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

    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 15:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    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 9:17
    75%

    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 13:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Jer 15:1
    75%

    1Then the LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

  • 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."

  • Deut 17:14
    74%

    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,'

  • Hos 13:10
    74%

    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 10:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    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 15:17
    72%

    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 9:15
    72%

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

  • 1 Sam 7:8
    72%

    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.

  • Ps 81:11
    72%

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

  • Hos 10:3
    72%

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

  • Deut 5:28
    72%

    28And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you: they have spoken well all that they have spoken.

  • Acts 13:21
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    71%

    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.

  • Hos 8:4
    71%

    4They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I did not acknowledge it. From their silver and their gold, they have made idols for themselves, that they may be cut off.

  • 1 Sam 15:14
    71%

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

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    71%

    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.