10 (A)Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?
    Where are all your rulers—
those of whom (B)you said,
    “Give me a king and princes”?

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(A)They made kings, (B)but not through me.
    They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
    for their own destruction.

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and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. (A)Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

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For now they will say:
    (A)“We have no king,
for we do not fear the Lord;
    and a king—what could he do for us?”

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49 Nathanael answered him, (A)“Rabbi, (B)you are the Son of God! You are the (C)King of Israel!”

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And (A)the Lord will be king over all the earth. (B)On that day the Lord will be (C)one and (D)his name one.

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But (A)I am the Lord your God
    from the land of Egypt;
(B)you know no God but me,
    and (C)besides me there is no savior.

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19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
    from (A)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    (B)Is her King not in her?”
(C)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
    and with their foreign idols?”

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28 But (A)where are your gods
    that you made for yourself?
Let them arise, (B)if they can save you,
    in your time of trouble;
for (C)as many as your cities
    are your gods, O Judah.

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15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,
    the Creator of Israel, your King.”

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22 For the Lord is our (A)judge; the Lord is our (B)lawgiver;
    the Lord is our (C)king; he will save us.

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Let Israel (A)be glad in (B)his Maker;
    let the children of Zion rejoice in their (C)King!

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18 For our (A)shield belongs to the Lord,
    our king to (B)the Holy One of Israel.

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12 Yet (A)God my King is from of old,
    working salvation in the midst of the earth.

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Sing praises to God, sing praises!
    Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
For God is (A)the King of all the earth;
    sing praises (B)with a psalm![a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 47:7 Hebrew maskil

(A)You are my King, O God;
    (B)ordain salvation for Jacob!

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But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

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20 And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but (A)the tribe of Judah only.

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11 And the Lord sent (A)Jerubbaal (B)and Barak[a] (C)and Jephthah and (D)Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety. 12 And when you saw that (E)Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, (F)you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ (G)when the Lord your God was your king.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 12:11 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Bedan

The Lord Grants Israel's Request

19 But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us, 20 (A)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.”

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The Lord Raises Up Judges

16 (A)Then the Lord raised up judges, (B)who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for (C)they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. (D)They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so. 18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, (E)the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. (F)For the Lord was moved to pity by (G)their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.

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37 Then he will say, (A)‘Where are their gods,
    (B)the rock in which they took refuge,
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
    let them be your protection!

39 “‘See now that (C)I, even I, am he,
    and there is no god beside me;
(D)I kill and I make alive;
    (E)I wound and I heal;
    and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

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