1 Samuel 8:8

New Living Translation

Ever since I brought them from Egypt they have continually abandoned me and followed other gods. And now they are giving you the same treatment.

Cross References

Psalm 78:8

Then they will not be like their ancestors— stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.

Exodus 16:3

“If only the Lord had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”

Exodus 17:2

So once more the people complained against Moses. “Give us water to drink!” they demanded. “Quiet!” Moses replied. “Why are you complaining against me? And why are you testing the Lord?”

Exodus 32:1

When the people saw how long it was taking Moses to come back down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron. “Come on,” they said, “make us some gods who can lead us. We don’t know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.”

Jeremiah 34:14

I told them that every Hebrew slave must be freed after serving six years. But your ancestors paid no attention to me.

Ezekiel 2:3

“Son of man,” he said, “I am sending you to the nation of Israel, a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have been rebelling against me to this very day.

Numbers 16:41

But the very next morning the whole community of Israel began muttering again against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the Lord’s people!”

Deuteronomy 9:24

Yes, you have been rebelling against the Lord as long as I have known you.

Judges 13:1

Again the Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines, who oppressed them for forty years.

Judges 2:20

So the Lord burned with anger against Israel. He said, “Because these people have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors, and have ignored my commands,

Judges 4:1

After Ehud’s death, the Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight.

Judges 6:1

The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. So the Lord handed them over to the Midianites for seven years.

1 Samuel 8:7

“Do everything they say to you,” the Lord replied, “for they are rejecting me, not you. They don’t want me to be their king any longer.

1 Samuel 8:9

Do as they ask, but solemnly warn them about the way a king will reign over them.”