1 Samuel 8:7

Good News Translation

and the Lord said, “Listen to everything the people say to you. You are not the one they have rejected; I am the one they have rejected as their king.

Cross References

Exodus 16:8

Then Moses said, “It is the Lord who will give you meat to eat in the evening and as much bread as you want in the morning, because he has heard how much you have complained against him. When you complain against us, you are really complaining against the Lord.”

Isaiah 66:4

So I will bring disaster upon them—the very things they are afraid of—because no one answered when I called or listened when I spoke. They chose to disobey me and do evil.”

Jeremiah 34:14

every seven years they were to set free any Hebrew slave who had served them for six years. But your ancestors would not pay any attention to me or listen to what I said.

Ezekiel 2:3

“Mortal man, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They have rebelled and turned against me and are still rebels, just as their ancestors were.

Ezekiel 3:7

But none of the people of Israel will be willing to listen; they will not even listen to me. All of them are stubborn and defiant.

Numbers 22:20

That night God came to Balaam and said, “If these men have come to ask you to go with them, get ready and go, but do only what I tell you.”

Matthew 10:40

“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.

Luke 10:16

Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

Luke 19:14

Now, his own people hated him, and so they sent messengers after him to say, ‘We don't want this man to be our king.’

Luke 19:27

Now, as for those enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and kill them in my presence!’”

John 13:16

I am telling you the truth: no slaves are greater than their master, and no messengers are greater than the one who sent them.

Judges 8:23

Gideon answered, “I will not be your ruler, nor will my son. The Lord will be your ruler.”

1 Samuel 10:19

I am your God, the one who rescues you from all your troubles and difficulties, but today you have rejected me and have asked me to give you a king. Very well, then, gather yourselves before the Lord by tribes and by clans.’”

1 Samuel 12:1

Then Samuel said to the people of Israel, “I have done what you asked me to do. I have given you a king to rule you,

1 Samuel 12:12

But when you saw that King Nahash of Ammon was about to attack you, you rejected the Lord as your king and said to me, ‘We want a king to rule us.’

1 Samuel 8:22

The Lord answered, “Do what they want and give them a king.” Then Samuel told all the men of Israel to go back home.

1 Samuel 8:8

Ever since I brought them out of Egypt, they have turned away from me and worshiped other gods; and now they are doing to you what they have always done to me.