Verse 20

We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us and fight our battles.”

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 They said to him,“Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead us, just like all the other nations have.”
  • Ps 106:35 : 35 They mixed in with the nations and learned their ways.
  • John 15:19 : 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 But our citizenship is in heaven– and we also eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
  • Exod 33:16 : 16 For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?”
  • Lev 20:24-26 : 24 So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God who has set you apart from the other peoples. 25 Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground– creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean. 26 You must be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.
  • Num 23:9 : 9 For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.