1Sa 8:5 Cross References

1 Samuel 8:5

5: "Look," they told him, "you are now old, and your sons are not like you. Give us a king like all the other nations have."

Deuteronomy 17:14

  1. "You will soon arrive in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and you will conquer it and settle there. Then you may begin to think, `We ought to have a king like the other nations around us.'
  2. If this happens, be sure that you select as king the man the LORD your God chooses. You must appoint a fellow Israelite, not a foreigner.

Acts 13:21

  1. Then the people begged for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who reigned for forty years.

1 Samuel 8:6

  1. Samuel was very upset with their request and went to the LORD for advice.
  2. "Do as they say," the LORD replied, "for it is me they are rejecting, not you. They don't want me to be their king any longer.
  3. Ever since I brought them from Egypt they have continually forsaken me and followed other gods. And now they are giving you the same treatment.

1 Samuel 8:19

  1. But the people refused to listen to Samuel's warning. "Even so, we still want a king," they said.
  2. "We want to be like the nations around us. Our king will govern us and lead us into battle."

Numbers 23:9

  1. I see them from the cliff tops; I watch them from the hills. I see a people who live by themselves, set apart from other nations.

Hosea 13:10

  1. Where now is your king? Why don't you call on him for help? Where are all the leaders of the land? You asked for them, now let them save you!
  2. In my anger I gave you kings, and in my fury I took them away.

1 Samuel 12:17

  1. You know that it does not rain at this time of the year during the wheat harvest. I will ask the LORD to send thunder and rain today. Then you will realize how wicked you have been in asking the LORD for a king!"
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