1 Samuel 8:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • 1 Sam 8:11-18 : 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. 12 And he will appoint captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war, and equipment for his chariots. 13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. 14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. 15 And he will take a tenth of your grain, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants. 16 And he will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you shall be his servants. 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.
  • 1 Sam 10:25 : 25 Then 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.
  • Ezek 3:18 : 18 When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you do not give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
  • Ezek 45:7-8 : 7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the offering of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, in front of the offering of the holy portion, and in front of the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be beside one of the portions, from the west border to the east border. 8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no longer oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
  • Ezek 46:18 : 18 Moreover, the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to expel them from their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people not be scattered every man from his possession.
  • 1 Sam 14:52 : 52 There was fierce war against the Philistines throughout the days of Saul. When Saul saw any strong or valiant man, he took him into his service.
  • 1 Sam 2:13 : 13 And this was the priests' custom with the people, that, when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand;

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    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 8:17-22
    6 verses
    84%

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

    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 8:4-8
    5 verses
    82%

    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.

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

    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.

    14If you will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both you and also the king that reigns over you continue following the LORD your God:

  • 1 Sam 12:1-2
    2 verses
    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.

    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 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 10:24-25
    2 verses
    75%

    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 9:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

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

    16Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people from the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.

    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.

  • 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 15:1
    74%

    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.

  • Hos 10:3
    73%

    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 12:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    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;

  • Acts 13:21
    72%

    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 9:27
    72%

    27And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand still a while, that I may show you the word of God.

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

    16Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.

    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.

  • Exod 18:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you. Be for the people a representative to God, that you may bring the causes to God.

    20And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

  • 1 Sam 11:12
    71%

    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."

  • 1 Sam 15:10
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 13:13-14
    2 verses
    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 28:17
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 17:10
    70%

    10You shall do according to the decision they give you at the place which the LORD chooses, and you shall be careful to do according to all that they instruct you.

  • Judg 9:8
    70%

    8The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, Reign over us.

  • 1 Sam 10:9
    70%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 10:17
    70%

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

  • 1 Chr 11:2
    70%

    2Moreover, in times past, even when Saul was king, you were the one who led and brought in Israel. And the LORD your God said to you, You shall shepherd my people Israel, and you shall be ruler over my people Israel.

  • 1 Sam 16:3
    70%

    3And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint for me him whom I name to you.

  • 2 Kgs 9:12
    70%

    12And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying, Thus says the LORD, I have anointed you king over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 3:18
    70%

    18And Samuel told him everything, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD; let him do what seems good to him.

  • Jer 30:9
    70%

    9But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.