1 Samuel 8:5
They said to him, "Look, you are old, and your sons don't follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead us, just like all the other nations have."
Deuteronomy 17:14-15
When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, "I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,"
1 Samuel 8:19-20
But the people refused to heed Samuel's warning. Instead they said, "No! There will be a king over us!
Acts 13:21
Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.
Numbers 23:9
For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.
1 Samuel 8:6-8
But this request displeased Samuel, for they said, "Give us a king to lead us." So Samuel prayed to the Lord.
1 Samuel 12:17
Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the Lord so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the Lord by asking for a king for yourselves."
Hosea 13:10-11
Where then is your king, that he may save you in all your cities? Where are your rulers for whom you asked, saying, "Give me a king and princes"?