1 Samuel 12:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Yet, when you saw Nahash, king of the Ammonites, advancing against you, you said to me, ‘No! A king must rule us,’ even though the Lord your God is your king. Warnings for People and King.

Cross References

Judges 8:23

But Gideon answered them, “I will not rule over you, nor shall my son rule over you. The Lord must rule over you.”

1 Samuel 10:19

But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your evils and calamities, by saying, ‘No! You must appoint a king over us.’ Now, therefore, take your stand before the Lord according to your tribes and families.”

Hosea 13:10

Where now is your king, that he may rescue you? And all your princes, that they may defend you? Of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

Isaiah 33:22

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he it is who will save us.

Psalm 74:12

Yet you, God, are my king from of old, winning victories throughout the earth.

1 Samuel 8:3

His sons did not follow his example, but looked to their own gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

Judges 9:18

but you have risen against my father’s house today and killed his seventy sons upon one stone and made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your kin—

Numbers 23:21

Misfortune I do not see in Jacob, nor do I see misery in Israel. The Lord, their God, is with them; among them is the war-cry of their King.

Genesis 17:7

I will maintain my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout the ages as an everlasting covenant, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Jeremiah 40:11

Then all the Judahites in Moab, in Ammon, in Edom, and those in all other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had set over them Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.