1 Samuel 8:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But the Lord told him, ‘Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected me as their king.

Cross References

1 Samuel 10:19

But today you have rejected your God,  who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions. You said to him, “You  must set a king over us.”  Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and clans.’

Luke 19:27

But bring here these enemies of mine,   who did not want me to rule over them, and slaughter   them in my presence.” ’

Luke 10:16

Whoever listens to you listens to me.   Whoever rejects you rejects me.   And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.’

Exodus 16:8

Moses continued, ‘The Lord will give you meat to eat this evening and all the bread you want in the morning, for he has heard the complaints that you are raising against him. Who are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the Lord.’

Luke 19:14

‘But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, “We don’t want this man to rule over us.”

Matthew 10:40

‘The one who welcomes you welcomes me,   and the one who welcomes me welcomes him who sent me.

John 13:16

‘Truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master,   , and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him.

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.

Numbers 22:20

God came to Balaam at night and said to him, ‘Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.’

Judges 8:23

But Gideon said to them, ‘I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.’

1 Samuel 8:8

They are doing the same thing to you that they have done to me,  since the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, abandoning me and worshipping other gods.

1 Samuel 8:22

‘Listen to them,’ the Lord told Samuel. ‘Appoint a king for them.’ Then Samuel told the men of Israel, ‘Each of you, go back to your city.’

1 Samuel 12:1

Then Samuel said to all Israel, ‘I have carefully listened to everything you said to me and placed a king over you.

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.

Jeremiah 34:14

“At the end of seven years, each of you must let his fellow Hebrew who sold himself  to you go. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free from your service.”  But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention.

Ezekiel 2:3

He said to me, ‘Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to  the rebellious pagans who have rebelled against me. The Israelites and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this day.

Ezekiel 3:7

But the house of Israel will not want to listen to you because they do not want to listen to me.  For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.