1 Samuel 12:12

Samuel's Charge To Israel

¹¹ And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hands of your enemies on every side, so that ye dwelled without fear. ¹² 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. ¹³ Now therefore behold the king, whom ye have chosen and whom ye have desired. See, the LORD hath given you a king!

Rule Over

Ammon

Ammonites

Jehovah

Nahash

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Judges 8:23

And Gideon said unto them, "I will not reign over you, neither shall my children reign over you, but the LORD shall reign over you."

1 Samuel 8:5-7

and said unto him, "Behold, thou art old and thy sons follow not thy ways. Now, therefore, make us a king to judge us, as all other nations have."

1 Samuel 10:19

And ye have this day cast away your God that helped you out of all your adversities and tribulations. And ye have said unto him: make a king over us. Now therefore stand before the LORD by your tribes and your thousands.'"

1 Samuel 11:1-2

Then Nahash the Ammonite came and besieged Jabesh in Gilead. And all the people of Jabesh said unto Nahash,

Genesis 17:7

Moreover, I will make my covenant between me, and thee, and thy seed after thee; in their times to be an everlasting testament, so that I will be God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Exodus 19:5-6

Now therefore if ye will hear my voice and keep mine covenant: ye shall be mine own above all nations, for all the earth is mine.

Numbers 23:21

He beheld no wickedness in Jacob, nor saw Idolatry in Israel: The LORD his God is with him, and the tromp of a king among them.

Judges 9:18

and ye are risen up against my father's house this day. And have slain his children, even seventy persons upon one stone and have made Abimelech - the son of his maidservant - king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your brother.

Judges 9:56-57

And thus all the wickedness of Abimelech which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren,

1 Samuel 8:3

Nevertheless, his sons followed not his steps: but turned aside after lucre and took rewards, and perverted the right.

1 Samuel 8:19-20

Nevertheless, the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, but did say, "Nay, not so: But there shall be a king over us,

Psalm 74:12

But God is my King of old; the help that is done upon earth, he doeth it himself.

Isaiah 33:22

For the LORD shall be our captain, the LORD shall be our law giver. The LORD shall be our king, and he himself shall be our Saviour

Hosea 13:10

Where are thy kings now, that shouldest help thee in all thy cities? Yea and thy judges, of whom thou sayest, "Give me a king and princes?"