Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And ye will see that Nahash, king of the sons of Ammon, came against you, and ye will say to me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: and Jehovah your God your king.

New American Standard Bible

When you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ although the Lord your God was your king.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was coming against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king rule over us’—even though the Lord your God is your king.

International Standard Version

But when you saw that Nahash, king of the Ammonites, was coming to fight you, you told me, "No, let a king rule over us instead,' even though the LORD your God was your king.

A Conservative Version

And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, ye said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us, when LORD your God was your king.

American Standard Version

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 Jehovah your God was your king.

Amplified

But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites had come against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us’—although the Lord your God was your King.

Bible in Basic English

And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

Darby Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

"And when you saw that Nahash, the king of [the] {Ammonites}, was coming against you, you said to me, 'No! A king shall reign over us,' although Yahweh your God [is] your king.

Modern King James verseion

And when you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us, even though Jehovah your God was your King.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And for all that, when you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, 'Not so, a king shall reign over us' - when yet the LORD your God was your king.

NET Bible

"When you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites was advancing against you, you said to me, 'No! A king will rule over us' -- even though the Lord your God is your king!

New Heart English Bible

"When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us;' when the LORD your God was your king.

The Emphasized Bible

But, when ye saw that, Nahash king of the sons of Ammon, came upon you, then said ye unto me, Nay! but, a king, shall reign over us, when, Yahweh your God, was your king!

Webster

And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said to me, No; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.

World English Bible

"When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us;' when Yahweh your God was your king.

Youngs Literal Translation

And ye see that Nahash king of the Bene-Ammon hath come against you, and ye say to me, Nay, but a king doth reign over us; and Jehovah your God is your king!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And when ye saw
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

נחשׁ 
Nachash 
Usage: 9

the king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

of Ammon
עמּון 
`Ammown 
Usage: 105


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

unto me, Nay but a king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

מלך 
Malak 
Usage: 350

over us when the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

References

Context Readings

Samuel's Charge To Israel

11 And Jehovah will send Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and he will deliver you from the hand of your enemies from round about, and ye shall dwell confidently. 12 And ye will see that Nahash, king of the sons of Ammon, came against you, and ye will say to me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: and Jehovah your God your king. 13 And now, behold the king which ye chose, which ye asked! and behold, Jehovah gave a king over you.

Cross References

Judges 8:23

And Gideon will say to them, I will not rule over you, and my son shall not rule over you: Jehovah shall rule over you.

1 Samuel 8:5-7

And they will say to him, Behold, thou wert old, and thy sons went not in thy ways: now set up for us a king to judge us as all the nations.

1 Samuel 10:19

And ye this day rejected your God who himself saves you from all your evils and your straits; and ye will say to him, That thou shalt put a king over us. And now stand ye before Jehovah by your tribes and by your thousands.

1 Samuel 11:1-2

And Nahash the Ammonite will come up and encamp against Jabesh-Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh will say to Nahash, Cut out to us a covenant, and we will serve thee.

Genesis 17:7

And I set up my covenant between me and between thee, and between thy seed after thee to their generations for a covenant of eternity; to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.

Exodus 19:5-6

And now if hearing, ye shall hear to my voice, and watch my covenant, and ye were to me wealth above all peoples, for to me is all the earth.

Numbers 23:21

He saw not iniquity in Jacob and he saw not sorrow in Israel: Jehovah his God with him, and the shouts of a king in them.

Judges 9:18

And ye rose up against the house of my father this day, and ye will kill his sons, seventy men, upon one stone; and ye will make Abimelech, son of his maid, king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your brother:)

Judges 9:56-57

And God will turn back the evil of Abimelech which he did. to his father for killing his seventy brethren.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.

1 Samuel 8:19-20

And the people will refuse to hear to the voice of Samuel; and they will say, Nay; but a king shall be over us.

Psalm 74:12

And God my king of old working salvations in the midst of the earth.

Isaiah 33:22

For Jehovah is our Judge, Jehovah our law-giver, Jehovah our king; he will save us.

Hosea 13:10

Now will I be thy king, and he shall save thee in all thy cities, and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Thou shalt give to me a king and princes.

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