1 Samuel 8:20
Good News Translation
so that we will be like other nations, with our own king to rule us and to lead us out to war and to fight our battles."

New Revised Standard Version
so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

New American Bible
We too must be like all the nations, with a king to rule us, lead us in warfare, and fight our battles.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.

1 Samuel 8:5 And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.

Exodus 33:16 For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have found grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be glorified by all people that dwell upon the earth?

Leviticus 20:24-26 But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people. . . .

Numbers 23:9 I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

Deuteronomy 7:6 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.

Psalm 106:35 And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:

John 15:19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

Philippians 3:20 But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Context
God Grants the Request
19But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said, Nay: but there shall be a king over us, 20And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.21And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:5
And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.

1 Samuel 12:2
And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and greyheaded: and my sons are with you: having then conversed with you from my youth until this day, behold here I am.

1 Samuel 8:19
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