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1 Samuel 8:19-20
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1 Samuel 8:19-20
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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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1 Samuel 8:19-20
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1 Samuel 8:19-20
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19 But the people refused(A) to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want(B) a king(C) over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations,(D) with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”
Deuteronomy 17:14
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Deuteronomy 17:14
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Laws Concerning Israel's Kings
14 “When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, (A)‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me’,
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Deuteronomy 17:14
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Deuteronomy 17:14
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The King
14 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession(A) of it and settled in it,(B) and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”(C)
Hosea 13:10
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Hosea 13:10
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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”?
Hosea 13:10
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Hosea 13:10
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Acts 13:21
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Acts 13:21
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21 Then (A)they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul (B)the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
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Acts 13:21
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Acts 13:21
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21 Then the people asked for a king,(A) and he gave them Saul(B) son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin,(C) who ruled forty years.
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