1 Samuel 12:12
"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.
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Genesis 17:7I 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.
Numbers 23:21He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.The Lord his God is with him.The shout of a king is among them.
Judges 9:18and you are 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).
1 Samuel 8:3His sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
1 Samuel 8:7The Lord 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.
1 Samuel 8:20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles."
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 12:7-16
6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. 7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of the Lord , which he did to you and to your fathers. 8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the Lord , then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place. 9 And when they forgat the Lord… Read the whole commentary →