1 Samuel 8:20 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²⁰ Then we shall be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ That we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

Common English Bible

²⁰ so we can be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us and fight our battles.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ and we shall be just like all the Gentiles. And our king will judge us, and he will go out before us, and he will fight our wars for us."

1 Samuel 8:20 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 106:35

but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

Exodus 33:16

How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?’

Numbers 23:9

From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

Romans 12:12

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore, ‘Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.’

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

Philippians 3:20

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

1 Samuel 12:12

‘But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, “No, we want a king to rule over us” – even though the Lord your God was your king.

1 Samuel 12:2

Now you have a king as your leader. As for me, I am old and grey, and my sons are here with you. I have been your leader from my youth until this day.

1 Samuel 8:5

They said to him, ‘You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have.’