1 Samuel 8:5

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Deut 17:14-15 : 14 When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;" 15 you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
  • 1 Sam 8:19-20 : 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."
  • Acts 13:21 : 21 Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to 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. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
  • 1 Sam 12:17 : 17 Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking for a king."
  • Hos 13:10-11 : 10 Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?' 11 I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken 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." 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.

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  • 1 Sam 8:6-11
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    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 8:18-22
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    18 You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day."

    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 8:3-4
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    84%

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

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

  • 1 Sam 12:1-2
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    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.

    2 Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

  • 1 Sam 8:1
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    1 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 12:19
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    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."

  • Deut 17:14
    76%

    14 When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall 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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    12 "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 Yahweh your God was your king.

    13 Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.

  • Acts 13:21
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    21 Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

  • 1 Sam 10:19
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    19 but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, '[No], but set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands."

  • 1 Sam 11:12
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    12 The people said to Samuel, "Who is he who said, 'Shall Saul reign over us?' Bring those men, that we may put them to death!"

  • Hos 13:10
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    10 Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?'

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    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 10:24-25
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    24 Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, "[Long] live the king!"

    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.

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

  • 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."

  • 1 Sam 9:17
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    17 When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, "Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people."

  • 1 Sam 12:17
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    17 Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking for a king."

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

  • 1 Sam 13:13-14
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    13 Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

    14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you."

  • 1 Sam 7:8
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    8 The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines."

  • 1 Sam 15:28
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    28 Samuel said to him, "Yahweh 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
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    17 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

  • 1 Sam 28:15-17
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    15 Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?" Saul answered, "I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do."

    16 Samuel said, "Why then do you ask of me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?

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

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  • Hos 10:3
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    3 Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don't fear Yahweh; and the king, what can he do for us?"

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    7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."

    8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, "Neither has Yahweh chosen this one."

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