1 Samuel 12:12

World Messianic Bible British Edition

“When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon 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

Genesis 17:7

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

Psalm 74:12

Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout 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 when all the Jews who were in Moab, and amongst the children of Ammon, and 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,

Hosea 13:10

Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?

Numbers 23:21

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. The LORD his God is with him. The shout of a king is amongst them.

Judges 8:23

Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. The LORD shall rule over you.”

Judges 9:18

and you have risen up against my father’s house today and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

1 Samuel 10:19

But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; 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 thousands.”

1 Samuel 8:3

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.