1 Samuel 8:5
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5 and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now (A)make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
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Deuteronomy 17:14-15
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Principles Governing Kings
14 “When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, (A)‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’ 15 you shall surely set a king over you (B)whom the Lord your God chooses; one (C)from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
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Hosea 13:10-11
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10 [a]I will be your King;
(A)Where is any other,
That he may save you in all your cities?
And your judges to whom (B)you said,
‘Give me a king and princes’?
11 (C)I gave you a king in My anger,
And took him away in My wrath.
Footnotes
- Hosea 13:10 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. Where is your king?
1 Samuel 8:19-20
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19 Nevertheless the people (A)refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us, 20 that we also may be (B)like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”
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1 Samuel 8:6-8
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6 But the thing (A)displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel (B)prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for (C)they have not rejected you, but (D)they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day—with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.
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Acts 13:21
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21 (A)And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them (B)Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
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1 Samuel 12:17
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17 Is today not the (A)wheat harvest? (B)I will call to the Lord, and He will send thunder and (C)rain, that you may perceive and see that (D)your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking a king for yourselves.”
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Numbers 23:9
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9 For from the top of the rocks I see him,
And from the hills I behold him;
There! (A)A people dwelling alone,
(B)Not reckoning itself among the nations.
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