1 Samuel 8:5

Free Bible Version

“Look here,” they told him, “you are old, and your sons do not follow your ways. Choose a king to rule over us like all the other nations.”

Cross References

Numbers 23:9

For I'm looking down on them from the top of rocky crags; I'm watching them from the hills. I see a people who live on their own, different from the other nations.

Acts 13:21

Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul, son of Kish from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled for forty years.

Judges 8:22

Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “You must become our ruler, you, your son, and your grandson; because you've saved us from the Midianites.”

1 Samuel 10:19

But now you have rejected your God, the one who saves you from all your troubles and disasters. You told him, ‘You must appoint a king to rule us.’ So now present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and family groups.”

1 Samuel 12:13

So here's the king you have chosen, the one you asked for. Look—the Lord now gives him to you as your king!

1 Samuel 12:17

Isn't it the time of wheat harvest? Well, I will ask the Lord to send thunder and rain. Then you will realize how very evil you were in the Lord's sight when you demanded your own king.”

1 Samuel 12:2

Now your king is your leader. I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have led you from the time I was a boy up to today.

1 Samuel 9:20

About the donkeys you lost three days ago—don't worry about them because they've been found. But now—doesn't the hope of all of Israel rest on you and your family line?”