1 Samuel 8:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and we have been, even we, like all the nations; and our king hath judged us, and gone out before us, and fought our battles.'

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  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 and say unto him, `Lo, thou hast become aged, and thy sons have not walked in thy ways; now, appoint to us a king, to judge us, like all the nations.'
  • Ps 106:35 : 35 And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,
  • John 15:19 : 19 if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you,
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- the Lord Jesus Christ --
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
  • Exod 33:16 : 16 and in what is it known now, that I have found grace in Thine eyes -- I and Thy people -- is it not in Thy going with us? and we have been distinguished -- I and Thy people -- from all the people who `are' on the face of the ground.'
  • Lev 20:24-26 : 24 and I say to you, Ye -- ye do possess their ground, and I -- I give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey; I `am' Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples. 25 `And ye have made separation between the pure beasts and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the pure, and ye do not make yourselves abominable by beast or by fowl, or by anything which creepeth `on' the ground which I have separated to you for unclean; 26 and ye have been holy to Me; for holy `am' I, Jehovah; and I separate you from the peoples to become Mine.
  • Num 23:9 : 9 For from the top of rocks I see it, And from heights I behold it; Lo a people! alone it doth tabernacle, And among nations doth not reckon itself.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 for a holy people `art' thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who `are' on the face of the ground.

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    4And all the elders of Israel gather themselves together, and come in unto Samuel to Ramath,

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    6And the thing is evil in the eyes of Samuel, when they have said, `Give to us a king to judge us;' and Samuel prayeth unto Jehovah.

    7And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.

    8According to all the works that they have done from the day of My bringing them up out of Egypt, even unto this day, when they forsake Me, and serve other gods -- so they are doing also to thee.

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    21And Samuel heareth all the words of the people, and speaketh them in the ears of Jehovah;

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