1 Samuel 8:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.”
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“So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,”
King James Version · Public Domain“Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And all the elders of Israel gather themselves together, and come in unto Samuel to Ramath,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Samuel 8:4 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 3:16Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
- Exodus 24:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.
- 1 Samuel 1:19The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
- 1 Samuel 7:17Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.
- 2 Samuel 5:3So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.
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