1 Samuel 8:9 - The Scriptures 1998

⁹ “And now, listen to their voice, but you shall certainly warn them, and shall make known to them the ruling of the sovereign who does reign over them.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ So listen now to their voice; only solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit thou shalt protest solemnly unto them, and shalt show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

Common English Bible

⁹ So comply with their request, but give them a clear warning, telling them how the king will rule over them.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Now therefore, hear their voice. Yet truly, testify to them and foretell to them the rights of the king who will reign over them."

1 Samuel 8:9 Cross References

Jeremiah 11:7

‘For I earnestly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Mitsrayim, until this day, rising early and warning, saying, “Obey My voice.”

Ezekiel 3:18

“When I say to the wrong, ‘You shall certainly die,’ and you have not warned him, nor spoken to warn the wrong from his wrong way, to save his life, that same wrong man shall die in his crookedness, and his blood I require at your hand.

Ezekiel 46:18

“And the prince does not take any of the people’s inheritance by evicting them from their possession. He is to give his sons their inheritance from his own possession, so that none of My people are separated from his possession.” ’ ”

1 Samuel 10:25

And Shemu’ĕ

1 Samuel 12:1

And Shemu’ĕ

1 Samuel 14:52

And there was fierce fighting against the Philistines all the days of Sha’ul. And when Sha’ul saw any mighty man or any brave man, he took him for himself.

1 Samuel 2:13

And the ruling of the priests with the people was that when any man offered a slaughtering, the priest’s servant shall come with a three-pronged flesh-hook in his hand while the meat was cookling,

1 Samuel 8:8

“According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Mitsrayim, even to this day – forsaking Me and serving other mighty ones – so they are doing to you too.