1 Samuel 8:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • 1 Sam 8:11-18 : 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; 12 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. 14 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. 15 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. 16 He will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants. 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.
  • 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 Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
  • Ezek 3:18 : 18 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no 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 will I require at your hand.
  • Ezek 45:7-8 : 7 [Whatever is] for the prince [shall be] on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border. 8 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
  • Ezek 46:18 : 18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not be scattered every man from his possession.
  • 1 Sam 14:52 : 52 There was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to him.
  • 1 Sam 2:13 : 13 The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand;

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    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 8:17-22
    6 verses
    84%

    17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.

    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, Go you every man to his city.

  • 1 Sam 8:4-8
    5 verses
    82%

    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.

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

    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.

    14 If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, and both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God, [well]:

  • 1 Sam 12:1-2
    2 verses
    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.

    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 10:19
    75%

    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 10:24-25
    2 verses
    75%

    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 manner 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 9:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

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

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

    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.

  • 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 round about 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 15:1
    74%

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

  • Hos 10:3
    73%

    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 12:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    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:

  • Acts 13:21
    72%

    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 9:27
    72%

    27 As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.

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

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

    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 you a king.

  • Exod 18:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

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

  • 1 Sam 11:12
    71%

    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 15:10
    71%

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

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

    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 would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

    14 But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him 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 28:17
    71%

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

  • Deut 17:10
    70%

    10 You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:

  • Judg 9:8
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 10:9
    70%

    9 It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs happened that day.

  • 1 Sam 10:17
    70%

    17 Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;

  • 1 Chr 11:2
    70%

    2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel: and Yahweh your God said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.

  • 1 Sam 16:3
    70%

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

  • 2 Kgs 9:12
    70%

    12 They said, It is false; tell us now. He said, Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 3:18
    70%

    18 Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. He said, It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him good.

  • Jer 30:9
    70%

    9 but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

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