1 Samuel 8:7

Modern English Version

The Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in relation to all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but Me they have rejected from reigning over them.

Cross References

Exodus 16:8

Then Moses said, “This will happen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy, for the Lord hears your murmurings which you murmur against Him. And what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.”

Isaiah 66:4

I also will choose their punishments and will bring their fears on them, because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they did not listen; but they did evil before My eyes and chose that in which I did not delight.

Jeremiah 34:14

“At the end of seven years, each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you.” But your fathers did not obey Me or incline their ear.

Ezekiel 2:3

And He said to me: Son of man, I send you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. They and their fathers have transgressed against Me even to this very day.

Ezekiel 3:7

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me, for all the house of Israel is impudent and obstinate.

Numbers 22:20

God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men come to call you, rise up and go with them. But surely the word which I will say to you, that will you do.”

Matthew 10:40

“He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.

Luke 10:16

“He who listens to you listens to Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”

Luke 19:14

“But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

Luke 19:27

But as for those enemies of mine, who would not let me reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”

John 13:16

Truly, truly I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.

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.”

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 12:1

Then Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.

1 Samuel 12:12

“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.

1 Samuel 8:22

And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey their voice, and make for them a king.” So Samuel said to Israel’s fighting men, “Go every man to his city.”

1 Samuel 8:8

Just as all the deeds which they have done to Me, from the day I brought them up from Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken Me and have served other gods, so they are doing also to you now.