1 Samuel 8:19

New American Bible - revised edition

The people, however, refused to listen to Samuel’s warning and said, “No! There must be a king over us.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:9

But they did not listen. Manasseh misled them into doing even greater evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed at the coming of the Israelites.

Psalm 81:11

‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth that I may fill it.’

Psalm 81:12

But my people did not listen to my words; Israel would not submit to me.

Isaiah 66:4

I in turn will choose affliction for them and bring upon them what they fear. Because when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened. Because they did what was evil in my sight, and things I do not delight in they chose,

Jeremiah 44:16

“Regarding the word you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not listening to you.

Jeremiah 7:13

And now, because you have committed all these deeds—oracle of the Lord—because you did not listen, though I spoke to you untiringly, and because you did not answer, though I called you,

Ezekiel 33:31

My people come to you, gathering as a crowd and sitting in front of you to hear your words, but they will not act on them. Love songs are on their lips, but in their hearts they pursue dishonest gain.

Deuteronomy 17:14

When you have come into the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, should you then decide, “I will set a king over me, like all the surrounding nations,”

1 Samuel 12:12

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.