1 Samuel 8:7

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.

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  • 1 Sam 10:19 : 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."
  • Exod 16:8 : 8 Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."
  • Num 22:20 : 20 God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do."
  • 1 Sam 12:17-19 : 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." 18 So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel. 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."
  • Ps 81:11-12 : 11 But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me. 12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
  • Isa 66:4 : 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."
  • 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.
  • Matt 10:24-25 : 24 "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more 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 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'"
  • John 13:16 : 16 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
  • John 15:20-21 : 20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 8:4-6
    3 verses
    87%

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

    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.

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

    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 8:8-11
    4 verses
    84%

    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 15:26
    80%

    26 Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel."

  • 1 Sam 10:19
    79%

    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 12:1
    79%

    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 Sam 16:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    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."

  • 1 Sam 12:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

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

    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."

    20 Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don't turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

  • 1 Sam 15:1
    76%

    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 16:1
    76%

    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 15:28
    75%

    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 15:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

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

    11 "It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

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

    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.

  • 1 Sam 15:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king."

    24 Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

  • 1 Sam 9:17
    75%

    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 13:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    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."

  • Jer 15:1
    75%

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

  • 1 Sam 11:12
    74%

    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!"

  • Deut 17:14
    74%

    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;"

  • Hos 13:10
    74%

    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?'

  • 1 Sam 10:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    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 15:17
    72%

    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 9:15
    72%

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

  • 1 Sam 7:8
    72%

    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."

  • Ps 81:11
    72%

    11 But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

  • Hos 10:3
    72%

    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?"

  • Deut 5:28
    72%

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

  • Acts 13:21
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    71%

    16 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So all Israel departed to their tents.

  • Hos 8:4
    71%

    4 They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn't approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

  • 1 Sam 15:14
    71%

    14 Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?"

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    71%

    16 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? Neither do we have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So Israel departed to their tents.