1 Samuel 12:12

New King James Version

And when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the Lord your God was your king.

Cross References

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.”

1 Samuel 10:19

But you have today rejected your God, who Himself saved you from all your adversities and your tribulations; and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us!’ Now therefore, present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your clans.”

Hosea 13:10

I will be your King; Where is any other, That he may save you in all your cities? And your judges to whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?

Isaiah 33:22

(For the Lord is our Judge, The Lord is our Lawgiver, The Lord is our King; He will save us);

Psalm 74:12

For God is my King from of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

1 Samuel 8:3

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

Judges 9:18

but you have risen up against my father’s house this day, and killed his seventy sons on one stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother—

Numbers 23:21

“He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, And the shout of a King is among them.

Genesis 17:7

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

Jeremiah 40:11

Likewise, when all the Jews who were in Moab, among the Ammonites, in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,