NET Bible
"We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us and fight our battles.”"
— 1 Samuel 8:20, NET 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.”
“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. ”
“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."”
“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.”
“So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.”
“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.”
He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.
In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD won’t answer you in that day.”
But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. Instead they said,“No! There will be a king over us!
We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us and fight our battles.”
So Samuel listened to everything the people said and then reported it to the LORD.
The LORD said to Samuel,“Do as they say and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel,“Each of you go back to his own city.”