1 Samuel 8:7

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord said: Listen to whatever the people say. You are not the one they are rejecting. They are rejecting me as their king.

Cross References

Exodus 16:8

And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and in the morning your fill of bread, and hears the grumbling you utter against him, who then are we? Your grumbling is not against us, but against the Lord.”

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 34:14

Every seventh year each of you must set free all Hebrews who have sold themselves to you; six years they shall serve you, but then you shall let them go free. Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or obey me.

Ezekiel 2:3

say to me: Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day.

Ezekiel 3:7

But the house of Israel will refuse to listen to you, since they refuse to listen to me. For the whole house of Israel is stubborn of brow and hard of heart.

Numbers 22:20

That night God came to Balaam and said to him: If these men have come to summon you, go back with them; yet only on the condition that you do exactly as I tell you.

Matthew 10:40

“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.

Luke 10:16

Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.” Return of the Seventy-two.

Luke 19:14

His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after him to announce, ‘We do not want this man to be our king.’

Luke 19:27

Now as for those enemies of mine who did not want me as their king, bring them here and slay them before me.’” The Entry into Jerusalem.

John 13:16

Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master nor any messenger greater than the one who sent him.

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.”

1 Samuel 12:1

Samuel addressed all Israel: “I have granted your request in every respect,” he said. “I have set a king over you

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.

1 Samuel 8:22

The Lord said: Listen to them! Appoint a king to rule over them. Then Samuel said to the people of Israel, “Return, each one of you, to your own city.”

1 Samuel 8:8

They are acting toward you just as they have acted from the day I brought them up from Egypt to this very day, deserting me to serve other gods.