1 Samuel 8:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.”

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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 thy sight, I and thy people? Is it not in thy going with us, so that we are distinct, I and thy people, from all other people that are upon the face of the earth?”

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the mountains I see him, from the hills I behold him; lo, a people dwelling alone, and not reckoning itself among the nations!

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant 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 to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

Philippians 3:20

But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await 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, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Samuel 12:12

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

1 Samuel 12:2

And now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray, and behold, my sons are with you; and I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

1 Samuel 8:5

and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint for us a king to govern us like all the nations.”