Judges 8:22

The Israelites said to Gideon: Be our ruler, you and your descendants after you. You saved us from the Midianites.

Judges 9:8-15

The trees went out to anoint a king over them. They said to the olive tree: 'Be our king.'

1 Samuel 8:5

They said: You are an old man. You set a good example for your sons. But they have not followed it. Now we want a king to be our leader like all the other nations. Choose one for us!

1 Samuel 12:12

But when you saw that King Nahash of Ammon was about to attack you, you rejected Jehovah as your king. You said to me: 'We want a (human) king to rule us.'

John 6:15

Jesus knew that they were about to take him by force and make him king. So he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

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Judges 8:22

Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.

Rule thou

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Rule thou

The trees went out to anoint a king over them. They said to the olive tree: 'Be our king.'

They said: You are an old man. You set a good example for your sons. But they have not followed it. Now we want a king to be our leader like all the other nations. Choose one for us!

But when you saw that King Nahash of Ammon was about to attack you, you rejected Jehovah as your king. You said to me: 'We want a (human) king to rule us.'

Jesus knew that they were about to take him by force and make him king. So he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.