1 Samuel 8:4

World English Bible (2000)

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 7:17 : 17 His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh.
  • 2 Sam 5:3 : 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.
  • Exod 3:16 : 16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;
  • Exod 24:1 : 1 He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

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  • 1 Sam 8:5-11
    7 verses
    84%

    5 and they said to him, "Behold, you are old, and your sons don't 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." Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

    7 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.

    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, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.

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

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

    11 He said, "This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

  • 1 Sam 8:1
    79%

    1 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 8:19-22
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    19 But the people refused to listen to 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."

    21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.

    22 Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Every man go to his city."

  • 1 Sam 16:4
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    4 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, "Do you come peaceably?"

  • 1 Sam 12:1
    77%

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

  • 1 Sam 10:17
    76%

    17 Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;

  • 1 Sam 7:5-6
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    76%

    5 Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to Yahweh."

    6 They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, "We have sinned against Yahweh." Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

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

  • 2 Chr 5:4
    74%

    4 All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;

  • 2 Kgs 23:1
    74%

    1 The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 9:14-15
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    73%

    14 They went up to the city; [and] as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.

    15 Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

  • 2 Chr 34:29
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    29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 8:3
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    3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

  • Ezek 14:1
    73%

    1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.

  • 1 Sam 15:34
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    34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 28:3-4
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    3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

    4 The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 15:10
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    10 Then the word of Yahweh came to Samuel, saying,

  • 2 Sam 5:3
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    3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 4:1
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    1 The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

  • 1 Kgs 8:1
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    1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.

  • Exod 4:29
    72%

    29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

  • 1 Sam 8:3
    72%

    3 His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

  • 1 Sam 7:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

    16 He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

  • 1 Sam 15:1
    71%

    1 Samuel said to Saul, "Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the words of Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 12:19
    71%

    19 All the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king."

  • Jer 26:17
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    17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

  • 1 Sam 10:25
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    25 Then Samuel told the people the regulations of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

  • Josh 24:1
    71%

    1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

  • 1 Sam 3:20
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    20 All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 11:4
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    4 Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

  • 1 Chr 23:2
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    2 He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

  • 1 Sam 15:12
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    12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal."

  • 1 Sam 9:18
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    18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, "Please tell me where the seer's house is."

  • 1 Kgs 12:1
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    1 Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.

  • 1 Sam 25:1
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