1 Samuel 8:5 Cross References - NSB

⁵ They said: »You are an old man. You set a good example for your sons. But they have not followed it. Now we want a king to be our leader like all the other nations. Choose one for us!«

⁹ »‘I see them from the top of rocky cliffs. I look at them from the hills. I see a nation that lives by itself! These are people who do not consider themselves to be like other nations.

¹⁴ »Enter the land Jehovah your God gives you. Possess it and live in it. You will say: I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me, ¹⁵ you shall surely set a king over you whom Jehovah your God chooses. It will be one from among your countrymen. You may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.

⁶ Samuel was upset to hear the leaders say they wanted a king. So he prayed about it. ⁷ Jehovah answered: »Samuel, do everything they want you to do. I am really the one they have rejected as their king. ⁸ »Ever since the day I rescued my people from Egypt, they have turned from me to worship idols. Now they are turning away from you.

¹⁹ But the people refused to listen to Samuel. They said: »We want a king! ²⁰ »We want to be like other nations, with our own king to rule us and to lead us out to war and to fight our battles.«

¹⁷ »It is the dry season and the wheat harvest. I will pray and Jehovah will send thunder and rain. When this happens, you will realize that you committed a great sin against Jehovah when you asked him for a king.«

¹⁰ »Where, now, is your king, the one who is supposed to save you? Where in all your cities are your judges? You said: ‘Give us kings and officials!’ ¹¹ »I gave you a king when I was angry, and I took him away when I was furious.

²¹ »Afterward they desired a king. God gave Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, to them for forty years.