1 Samuel 12:12

Modern English Version

“When you saw that Nahash, king of the Ammonites, came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king will reign over us,’ when the Lord your God was your king.

Cross References

Genesis 17:7

I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.

Psalm 74:12

For God is my King from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Isaiah 33:22

for the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us.

Jeremiah 40:11

Likewise, also all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan.

Hosea 13:10

Where now is your king that he may save you in all your cities? And where are your judges of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

Numbers 23:21

“He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen perverseness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

Judges 8:23

Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you. The Lord will rule over you.”

Judges 9:18

Yet you have taken a stand against my father’s family today. You killed his seventy sons, each on a single stone. You made Abimelech, son of his slave woman, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother.

1 Samuel 10:19

But you have today rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and your distresses. And you have said to Him, ‘No, but set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your clans.”

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his way, for they followed after unlawful gain, and they took bribes, and they perverted justice.