1 Samuel 8:19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The people refused to listen to Samuel. ‘No! ’ they said. ‘We must have a king over us.

Cross References

Jeremiah 44:16

‘As for the word you spoke to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you!

Ezekiel 33:31

So my people come to you in crowds,  sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Their mouths go on passionately, but their hearts pursue dishonest profit.

Jeremiah 7:13

Now, because you have done all these things #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #and because I have spoken to you time and time again  but you wouldn’t listen,  and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,

Isaiah 66:4

So I will choose their punishment, and I will bring on them what they dread because I called and no one answered; I spoke and they did not listen; they did what was evil in my sight and chose what I did not delight in.

Deuteronomy 17:14

‘When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you,  take possession of it, live in it, and say, “I will set a king over me like all the nations around me,”

1 Samuel 12:12

But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was coming against you, you said to me, “No, we must have a king reign over us” #– #even though the Lord your God is your king.

2 Kings 21:9

But they did not listen; Manasseh caused them to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.