Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 8:23 : 23 Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: Yahweh shall rule over you.
  • 1 Sam 8:5-7 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 1 Sam 11:1-2 : 1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you. 2 Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach on all Israel.
  • Ps 74:12 : 12 Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
  • Isa 33:22 : 22 For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save us.
  • Hos 13:10 : 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 8:19-20 : 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.
  • Gen 17:7 : 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
  • Num 23:21 : 21 He has not saw iniquity in Jacob; Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: Yahweh his God is with him, The shout of a king is among them.
  • Judg 9:18 : 18 and you are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
  • Judg 9:56-57 : 56 Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers; 57 and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite on their heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
  • 1 Sam 8:3 : 3 His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.