1 Samuel 12:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

See, here is the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; see, the Lord has set a king over you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now see the king whom you have chosen and for whom you have asked; behold, the Lord has set a king over you.

American Standard Version (1901)

Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have asked for: and, behold, Jehovah hath set a king over you.

Common English Bible

“So now, here is the king you chose, the one you asked for. Yes, the LORD has put a king over you!

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now therefore, your king is present, whom you chose and requested. Behold, the Lord has given you a king.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now therefore your king is here, whom you have chosen and desired: Behold the Lord hath given you a king.

1 Samuel 12:13 Cross References

Hosea 13:11

I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.

Acts 13:21

Then they asked 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 10:24

Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one whom the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

1 Samuel 11:15

So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed offerings of well-being before the Lord, and there Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.

1 Samuel 12:17

Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain, and you shall know and see that the wickedness that you have done in the sight of the Lord is great in demanding a king for yourselves.”

1 Samuel 12:19

All the people said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for your servants, so that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins the evil of demanding a king for ourselves.”

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.”

1 Samuel 9:20

As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, give no further thought to them, for they have been found. And on whom is all Israel’s desire fixed, if not on you and on all your ancestral house?”