1 Samuel 8:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 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.
  • Ps 106:35 : 35 But mixed themselves with the nations, And learned their works.
  • John 15:19 : 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, And be separate,' says the Lord, 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • Exod 33:16 : 16 For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"
  • Lev 20:24-26 : 24 But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples. 25 "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you. 26 You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
  • 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.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 8:18-19
    2 verses
    85%

    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,

  • 1 Sam 8:4-11
    8 verses
    83%

    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.

    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 manner 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 manner 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 8:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

    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, Go you every man to his city.

  • 1 Sam 12:19
    78%

    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 round about me;

  • 1 Sam 12:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    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 10:19
    74%

    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.

  • 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?"

  • 1 Sam 12:1
    72%

    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 11:12
    72%

    12 The people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.

  • 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."

  • Hos 13:10
    72%

    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?'

  • 2 Chr 20:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

    12 Our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but out eyes are on you.

  • 1 Sam 10:24
    71%

    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.

  • Judg 20:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 All the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house.

    9 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we will go up] against it by lot;

  • Judg 11:8
    71%

    8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore are we turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

  • Judg 11:6
    71%

    6 and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

  • Josh 8:5
    70%

    5 and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;

  • Acts 13:21
    70%

    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.

  • Josh 24:18
    69%

    18 and Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.

  • 1 Sam 11:14
    69%

    14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.

  • Judg 20:18
    69%

    18 The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, Judah [shall go up] first.

  • 1 Chr 19:13
    69%

    13 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    69%

    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: to your tents, Israel: now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

  • 1 Kgs 8:57-58
    2 verses
    69%

    57 Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us;

    58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

  • 1 Sam 17:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9 If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall you be our servants, and serve us.

    10 The Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.

  • Deut 1:41
    69%

    41 Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us. You girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country.

  • 1 Kgs 22:4
    69%

    4 He said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.

  • Deut 20:9
    69%

    9 It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of hosts at the head of the people.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    69%

    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.

  • Josh 24:16
    68%

    16 The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

  • 2 Chr 18:3
    68%

    3 Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead? He answered him, I am as you are, and my people as your people; and [we will be] with you in the war.

  • 1 Sam 10:17
    68%

    17 Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;

  • 1 Sam 14:40
    68%

    40 Then said he to all Israel, Be you on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. The people said to Saul, Do what seems good to you.

  • 2 Sam 19:43
    68%

    43 The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] in David than you: why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 13:3
    68%

    3 and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we didn't seek it in the days of Saul.

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