1 Samuel 8:7

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then the Lord said to Samuel: "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they are saying to you. For they have not rejected you, but me, lest I reign over them.

Cross References

Exodus 16:8

And Moses said: "In the evening, the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning, bread in fullness. For he has heard your murmurings that you have murmured against him. For what are we? Your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord."

Isaiah 66:4

Therefore, I also will choose their illusions, and I will lead over them the things that they feared. For I called, and there was no one who would respond. I have spoken, and they have not listened. And they have done evil in my eyes; and what I did not will, they have chosen.

Jeremiah 34:14

'When seven years have been completed, let each one release his brother, a Hebrew, who had been sold to him. And so he will serve you for six years, and then you shall release him to be free from you.' But your fathers did not listen to me, nor did they incline their ear.

Ezekiel 2:3

and saying: "Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to an apostate nation, which has withdrawn from me. They and their fathers have betrayed my covenant, even to this day.

Ezekiel 3:7

Yet the house of Israel is not willing to listen to you. For they are not willing to listen to me. Certainly, the entire house of Israel has a brazen forehead and a hardened heart.

Numbers 22:20

Therefore, God came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: "If these men have arrived to call you, then rise up and go with them; yet only in so far as you shall do what I will command you."

Matthew 10:40

Whoever receives you, receives me. And whoever receives me, receives him who sent me.

Luke 10:16

Whoever hears you, hears me. And whoever despises you, despises me. And whoever despises me, despises him who sent me."

Luke 19:14

But his citizens hated him. And so they sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this one to reign over us.'

Luke 19:27

'Yet truly, as for those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here, and put them to death before me.' "

John 13:16

Amen, amen, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his Lord, and the apostle is not greater than he who sent him.

Judges 8:23

And he said to them: "I will not rule over you. Neither shall my son rule over you. Instead, the Lord shall rule over you."

1 Samuel 10:19

But today you have rejected your God, who alone saved you from all your evils and tribulations. And you have said: 'By no means! Instead, appoint a king over us.' Now therefore, stand in the sight of the Lord, by your tribes and by your families."

1 Samuel 12:1

Then Samuel said to all of Israel: "Behold, I have listened to your voice, according to all that you have said to me, and I have appointed a king over you.

1 Samuel 12:12

Then, seeing that Nahash, the king of the sons of Ammon, had arrived against you, you said to me, 'By no means! Instead, a king shall reign over us,' even though the Lord your God was reigning over you.

1 Samuel 8:22

Then the Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and appoint a king over them." And Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Let each one go to his own city."

1 Samuel 8:8

In accord with all their works, which they have done from the day when I led them away from Egypt, even to this day: just as they have forsaken me, and served foreign gods, so now they also do to you.