1 Samuel 8:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.””
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“Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Samuel 8:20 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 33:16For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
- Leviticus 20:24But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.
- Numbers 23:9For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
- Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
- 1 Samuel 8:5“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
- 1 Samuel 12:12But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was your king.
- Psalms 106:35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
- John 15:19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
- Romans 12:12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
- 2 Corinthians 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- Philippians 3:20But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
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