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.""
— 1 Samuel 8:20, 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.”
“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. ”
“We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead 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 take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day."
But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No; but we will have a king over us,
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."
Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Every man go to his city."