1 Samuel 8:20 - New Revised Standard Version

²⁰ so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ That we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ so we can be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us and fight our battles.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ and we shall be just like all the Gentiles. And our king will judge us, and he will go out before us, and he will fight our wars for us."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.

1 Samuel 8:20 Cross References

Psalm 106:35

but they mingled with the nations and learned to do as they did.

Exodus 33:16

For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people, unless you go with us? In this way, we shall be distinct, I and your people, from every people on the face of the earth.”

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; Here is a people living alone, and not reckoning itself among the nations!

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates you.

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer.

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

Philippians 3:20

But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Samuel 12:12

But when you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ though the Lord your God was your king.

1 Samuel 12:2

See, it is the king who leads you now; I am old and gray, but my sons are with you. I have led you from my youth until this day.

1 Samuel 8:5

and said to him, “You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”