1 Samuel 8:6

Israel Demands a King

6 But the thing h displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." So Samuel i prayed to the LORD.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 17:14
    "When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, 'I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,'
    Deuteronomy 17:15
    You shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
    Hosea 13:10
    I will be your King; Where is any other, That he may save you in all your cities? And your judges to whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes'?
    Hosea 13:11
    I gave you a king in My anger, And took him away in My wrath.
    Acts 13:21
    And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
  2. Cross References
    1 Samuel 12:17
    " Is today not the wheat harvest? I will call to the LORD, and He will send thunder and rain, that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking a king for yourselves."
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