1 Samuel 8:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.

Cross References

Exodus 16:8

And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.

Isaiah 66:4

So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.

Jeremiah 34:14

At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

Ezekiel 2:3

And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day.

Ezekiel 3:7

But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.

Numbers 22:20

And that night God came to Balaam and said to him, If these men have come for you, go with them: but do only what I say to you.

Matthew 10:40

He who gives honour to you gives honour to me; and he who gives honour to me gives honour to him who sent me.

Luke 10:16

Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.

Luke 19:14

But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.

Luke 19:27

And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.

John 13:16

Truly I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him.

Judges 8:23

But Gideon said to them, I will not be a ruler over you, and my son will not be a ruler over you: it is the Lord who will be ruler over you.

1 Samuel 10:19

But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.

1 Samuel 12:1

And Samuel said to all Israel, You see that I have given ear to everything you said to me, and have made a king over you.

1 Samuel 12:12

And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

1 Samuel 8:22

And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to their voice and make a king for them. Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, Let every man go back to his town.

1 Samuel 8:8

As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.