Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.” New Living Translation “We want to be like the nations around us. Our king will judge us and lead us into battle.” English Standard Version 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.” Berean Standard Bible Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.” King James Bible 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. New King James Version 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.” New American Standard Bible so that we also may be like all the nations, and our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” NASB 1995 that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” NASB 1977 that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” Legacy Standard Bible that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” Amplified Bible so that we too may be like all the nations [around us], that our king may judge [and govern] us and go out before us and fight our battles.” Christian Standard Bible Then we’ll be like all the other nations: our king will judge us, go out before us, and fight our battles.” Holman Christian Standard Bible Then we’ll be like all the other nations: our king will judge us, go out before us, and fight our battles.” American Standard Version 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And we will also be like all of the nations, and our King will judge us, and he will go forth before us and he shall fight our battles!” Brenton Septuagint Translation An we also will be like all the nations; and our king shall judge us, and shall go out before us, 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 tight our battles for us. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation Then we, too, will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us, lead us out [to war], and fight our battles." 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." International Standard Version We, too, will be like all the nations! Our king will govern us and go out before us to fight our battles." JPS Tanakh 1917 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.' Literal Standard Version and we have been, even we, like all the nations; and our king has judged us, and gone out before us, and fought our battles.” Majority Standard Bible Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to 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.” NET Bible We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us and 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 Heart English Bible 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." Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible 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.” Young's Literal Translation and we have been, even we, like all the nations; and our king hath judged us, and gone out before us, and fought our battles.' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God Grants the Request19Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us. 20Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.” 21Samuel listened to all the words of the people and repeated them in the hearing of the LORD.… Cross References 1 Samuel 8:5 "Look," they said, "you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations." 1 Samuel 12:2 Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day. Treasury of Scripture 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. 1 Samuel 8:5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. Exodus 33:16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. Leviticus 20:24-26 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people… Jump to Previous Battles Conduct Judge Judged Lead Nations War WarsJump to Next Battles Conduct Judge Judged Lead Nations War Wars1 Samuel 8 1. By occasion of the ill government of Samuel's sons, the Israelites ask a king6. Samuel praying in grief is comforted by God 10. He tells the manner of a king 19. God wills Samuel to yield unto the importunity of the people (20) Like all the nations.--There is something strangely painful in these terms with which the elders urged their request--the wish "to be like other nations" seems to have been very strong with them. They forgot, or chose to ignore, the solitary position of lofty pre-eminence God had given them among the nations. They had, it is true, failed to comprehend it in past, as in present days, but this haste to give up their lofty privileges, and to descend from the pedestal on which their God had set them, was in the eye of one like Samuel a strange inexplicable foolishness. Hebrew Then we willאֲנַ֖חְנוּ (’ă·naḥ·nū) Pronoun - first person common plural Strong's 587: We be וְהָיִ֥ינוּ (wə·hā·yî·nū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common plural Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be like all כְּכָל־ (kə·ḵāl-) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every the other nations, הַגּוֹיִ֑ם (hag·gō·w·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts with a king מַלְכֵּ֙נוּ֙ (mal·kê·nū) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural Strong's 4428: A king to judge us, וּשְׁפָטָ֤נוּ (ū·šə·p̄ā·ṭā·nū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common plural Strong's 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate to go out וְיָצָ֣א (wə·yā·ṣā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim before us, לְפָנֵ֔ינוּ (lə·p̄ā·nê·nū) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural Strong's 6440: The face and to fight וְנִלְחַ֖ם (wə·nil·ḥam) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3898: To feed on, to consume, to battle our battles.” מִלְחֲמֹתֵֽנוּ׃ (mil·ḥă·mō·ṯê·nū) Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common plural Strong's 4421: A battle, war Links 1 Samuel 8:20 NIV1 Samuel 8:20 NLT 1 Samuel 8:20 ESV 1 Samuel 8:20 NASB 1 Samuel 8:20 KJV 1 Samuel 8:20 BibleApps.com 1 Samuel 8:20 Biblia Paralela 1 Samuel 8:20 Chinese Bible 1 Samuel 8:20 French Bible 1 Samuel 8:20 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Samuel 8:20 That we also may be like all (1Sa iSam 1 Sam i sa) |
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