1 Samuel 8:20

New English Translation

We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us and fight our battles.”

Cross References

Psalm 106:35

They mixed in with the nations and learned their ways.

Exodus 33:16

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

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore “come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord, “and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

Philippians 3:20

But our citizenship is in heaven – and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Samuel 12:12

“When you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites was advancing against you, you said to me, ‘No! A king will rule over us’ – even though the Lord your God is your king!

1 Samuel 12:2

Now look! This king walks before you. As for me, I am old and gray, though my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from the time of my youth till the present day.

1 Samuel 8:5

They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead us, just like all the other nations have.”