1 Samuel 12:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.

Nay

1 Samuel 8:3

Judges 9:18

When the lord

Bible References

Nay

His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

and you have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

When the lord

Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, '[No], but set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands."

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you."

Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?'