1 Samuel 8:5

New American Bible - revised edition

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.”

Cross References

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the crags I see him, from the heights I behold him. Here is a people that lives apart and does not reckon itself among the nations.

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.

Judges 8:22

The Israelites then said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you, your son, and your son’s son—for you saved us from the power of Midian.”

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.”

1 Samuel 12:13

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

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 12:2

and now the king will lead you. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are among you. I was your leader from my youth to the present day.

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?”