Cross references
1 Samuel 8:5
“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
1 Samuel 8:5 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 17:14–15 (6 votes) and 1 Samuel 8:19–20 (4 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Numbers 22 to Acts 13.
Which verses does 1 Samuel 8:5 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Deuteronomy 17:14–156 votes
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
- 1 Samuel 8:19–204 votes
Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
- 1 Samuel 8:6–83 votes
But when they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king. …
- Hosea 13:10–113 votes
Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”? So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.
- Numbers 23:92 votes
For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
- 1 Samuel 12:172 votes
Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”
- Acts 13:211 vote
Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.
Which verses point to 1 Samuel 8:5?
The 10 strongest of 16.