1 Samuel 8:8

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Psalm 78:8

They were not to be like their ancestors, a rebellious and defiant generation, A generation whose heart was not constant, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Exodus 16:3

The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died at the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our kettles of meat and ate our fill of bread! But you have led us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of famine!” The Quail and the Manna.

Exodus 17:2

and so they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses replied to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to a test?”

Exodus 32:1

When the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us; as for that man Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.”

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.

Deuteronomy 9:24

You have been rebels against the Lord from the day I first knew you.

Judges 13:1

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, who therefore delivered them into the power of the Philistines for forty years.

Judges 2:20

The anger of the Lord flared up against Israel, and he said: Because this nation has transgressed my covenant, which I enjoined on their ancestors, and has not listened to me,

Judges 4:1

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; Ehud was dead.

Judges 6:1

The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, who therefore delivered them into the power of Midian for seven years,

1 Samuel 8:7

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

1 Samuel 8:9

Now listen to them; but at the same time, give them a solemn warning and inform them of the rights of the king who will rule them. The Governance of the King.