1 Samuel 8:5

and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.”

Deuteronomy 17:14-15

“When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’

1 Samuel 8:19-20

Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, “No, but there shall be a king over us,

Acts 13:21

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

Numbers 23:9

“As I see him from the top of the rocks,
And I look at him from the hills;
Behold, a people who dwells apart,
And will not be reckoned among the nations.

1 Samuel 8:6-8

But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call to the Lord, that He may send thunder and rain. Then you will know and see that your wickedness is great which you have done in the sight of the Lord by asking for yourselves a king.”

Hosea 13:10-11

Where now is your king
That he may save you in all your cities,
And your judges of whom you requested,
“Give me a king and princes”?

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1 Samuel 8:5

And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

Now make

General references

1 Samuel 8:20

Bible References

Now make

But the thing was

displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

“As I see him from the top of the rocks,
And I look at him from the hills;

Behold, a people who dwells apart,

And will not be reckoned among the nations.

“When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’

Where now is your king
That he may save you in all your cities,
And your judges of whom you requested,
“Give me a king and princes”?

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

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that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”