1 Samuel 12:12

New American Standard Bible 2020

But when you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon was coming against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us!’ Yet the Lord your God was your king.

Cross References

Genesis 17:7

I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

Psalm 74:12

¶Yet God is my King from long ago, Who performs acts of salvation in the midst of the earth.

Isaiah 33:22

For the Lord is our judge, The Lord is our lawgiver, The Lord is our king; He will save us—

Jeremiah 40:11

Likewise, also all the Jews who were in Moab and among the sons of Ammon and in Edom, and who were in all the other countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant for Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.

Hosea 13:10

Where then is your king, That he might save you in all your cities; And your judges, to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

Numbers 23:21

“He has not looked at misfortune in Jacob; Nor has He seen trouble in Israel; The Lord his God is with him, And the joyful shout of a king is among them.

Judges 8:23

But Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, nor shall my son rule over you; the Lord shall rule over you.”

Judges 9:18

but in fact you have risen against my father’s house today and have killed his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the leaders of Shechem, because he is your relative—

1 Samuel 10:19

But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your catastrophes and your distresses; yet you have said, ‘No, but put a king over us!’ Now then, present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your groups of thousands.”

1 Samuel 8:3

His sons, however, did not walk in his ways but turned aside after dishonest gain, and they took bribes and perverted justice.