1 Samuel 8:20

New American Standard Bible 2020

so that we also may be like all the nations, and our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

Cross References

Psalm 106:35

But they got involved with the nations And learned their practices,

Exodus 33:16

For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are on the face of the earth?”

Numbers 23:9

“For I see him from the top of the rocks, And I look at him from the hills; Behold, a people that lives in isolation, And does not consider itself to be among the nations.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer,

2 Corinthians 6:17

“Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean; And I will welcome you.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Philippians 3:20

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

1 Samuel 12:12

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.

1 Samuel 12:2

Now, here is the king walking before you, but as for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. And I have walked before you since my youth to this day.

1 Samuel 8:5

and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint us a king to judge us like all the nations.”