1 Samuel 12:13

New American Bible - revised edition

“Now here is the king you chose. See! The Lord has given you a king.

Cross References

Hosea 13:11

I give you a king in my anger, and I take him away in my wrath.

Acts 13:21

Then they asked for a king. God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

1 Samuel 10:24

Then Samuel addressed all the people, “Do you see the man whom the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people!” Then all the people shouted out, “Long live the king!”

1 Samuel 11:15

So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king in the Lord’s presence. They also sacrificed communion offerings there before the Lord, and Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.

1 Samuel 12:17

Are we not in the harvest time for wheat? Yet I will call upon the Lord, and he will send thunder and rain. Thus you will see and understand how great an evil it is in the eyes of the Lord that you have asked for a king.”

1 Samuel 12:19

They said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for us, your servants, that we may not die for having added to all our other sins the evil of asking for a king.”

1 Samuel 8:5

and said to him, “Now that you are old, and your sons do not follow your example, appoint a king over us, like all the nations, to rule us.”

1 Samuel 9:20

As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not worry about them, for they have been found. Whom should Israel want if not you and your father’s family?”